Mark 9:42-50

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Causing to Stumble

⁴²“If anyone causes one of these little ones—those who believe in me—to stumble,^(A) it would be better for them if a large millstone were hung around their neck and they were thrown into the sea.^(B) ⁴³If your hand causes you to stumble,^(C) cut it off. It is better for you to enter life maimed than with two hands to go into hell,^(D) where the fire never goes out.^(E) ^[44]^[a] ⁴⁵And if your foot causes you to stumble,^(F) cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than to have two feet and be thrown into hell.^(G) ^[46]^[b] ⁴⁷And if your eye causes you to stumble,^(H) pluck it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into hell,^(I) ⁴⁸where

“‘the worms that eat them do not die,
and the fire is not quenched.’^[c]^(J)

⁴⁹Everyone will be salted^(K) with fire.

⁵⁰“Salt is good, but if it loses its saltiness, how can you make it salty again?^(L) Have salt among yourselves,^(M) and be at peace with each other.”^(N)

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Footnotes

Mark 9:44 Some manuscripts include here the words of verse 48.
Mark 9:46 Some manuscripts include here the words of verse 48.
Mark 9:48 Isaiah 66:24

Luke 12:1-9

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Warnings and Encouragements^(A)

12 Meanwhile, when a crowd of many thousands had gathered, so that they were trampling on one another, Jesus began to speak first to his disciples, saying: “Be^[a] on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.^(B) ²There is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed, or hidden that will not be made known.^(C) ³What you have said in the dark will be heard in the daylight, and what you have whispered in the ear in the inner rooms will be proclaimed from the roofs.

⁴“I tell you, my friends,^(D) do not be afraid of those who kill the body and after that can do no more. ⁵But I will show you whom you should fear: Fear him who, after your body has been killed, has authority to throw you into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him.^(E) ⁶Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? Yet not one of them is forgotten by God. ⁷Indeed, the very hairs of your head are all numbered.^(F) Don’t be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.^(G)

⁸“I tell you, whoever publicly acknowledges me before others, the Son of Man will also acknowledge before the angels of God.^(H) ⁹But whoever disowns me before others will be disowned^(I) before the angels of God.

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