Matthew 5:29
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29 If your right eye causes you to sin,[a] tear it out and throw it away; it is better for you to lose one of your members than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.[b](A)
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Mark 9:43-48
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43 If your hand causes you to sin,[a] cut it off; it is better for you to enter life maimed than to have two hands and to go to hell,[b] to the unquenchable fire.[c](A) 45 And if your foot causes you to sin,[d] cut it off; it is better for you to enter life lame than to have two feet and to be thrown into hell.[e][f](B) 47 And if your eye causes you to sin,[g] tear it out; it is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than to have two eyes and to be thrown into hell,[h](C) 48 where their worm never dies and the fire is never quenched.(D)
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Colossians 3:5
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5 Put to death, therefore, whatever in you is earthly: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed (which is idolatry).(A)
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Romans 8:13
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13 for if you live according to the flesh, you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.(A)
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1 Peter 4:1-3
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4 Since, therefore, Christ suffered in the flesh,[a] arm yourselves also with the same intention (for whoever has suffered in the flesh has finished with sin),(A) 2 so as to live for the rest of your time in the flesh no longer by human desires but by the will of God.(B) 3 You have already spent enough time in doing what the gentiles like to do, living in debauchery, passions, drunkenness, revels, carousing, and lawless idolatry.(C)
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1 Corinthians 9:27
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27 but I punish my body and enslave it, so that after proclaiming to others I myself should not be disqualified.(A)
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Romans 6:6
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6 We know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be destroyed, so we might no longer be enslaved to sin.(A)
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Luke 9:24-25
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24 For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake will save it.(A) 25 For what does it profit them if they gain the whole world but lose or forfeit themselves?(B)
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Mark 8:36
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36 For what will it profit them to gain the whole world and forfeit their life?
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Matthew 18:8-9
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8 “If your hand or your foot causes you to sin,[a] cut it off and throw it away; it is better for you to enter life maimed or lame than to have two hands or two feet and to be thrown into the eternal fire.(A) 9 And if your eye causes you to sin,[b] tear it out and throw it away; it is better for you to enter life with one eye than to have two eyes and to be thrown into the hell[c] of fire.(B)
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Galatians 5:24
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24 And those who belong to Christ[a] have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.(A)
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Matthew 10:28
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28 Do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul; rather, fear the one who can destroy both soul and body in hell.[a]
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- 10.28 Gk Gehenna
Matthew 19:12
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12 For there are eunuchs who have been so from birth, and there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by others, and there are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. Let anyone accept this who can.”
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Matthew 23:15
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15 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you cross sea and land to make a single convert, and you make the new convert twice as much a child of hell[a] as yourselves.
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- 23.15 Gk Gehenna
Matthew 16:26
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26 For what will it profit them if they gain the whole world but forfeit their life? Or what will they give in return for their life?
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Matthew 5:22
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22 But I say to you that if you are angry with a brother or sister,[a] you will be liable to judgment, and if you insult[b] a brother or sister, you will be liable to the council, and if you say, ‘You fool,’ you will be liable to the hell[c] of fire.(A)
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Proverbs 5:8-14
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8 Keep your way far from her,
and do not go near the door of her house,(A)
9 lest you give your honor to others
and your years to the merciless,
10 and strangers take their fill of your wealth,
and your labors go to the house of an alien,
11 and at the end of your life you groan,
when your flesh and body are consumed,
12 and you say, “Oh, how I hated discipline,
and my heart despised reproof!(B)
13 I did not listen to the voice of my teachers
or incline my ear to my instructors.
14 Now I am at the point of utter ruin
in the public assembly.”
Matthew 23:33
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33 You snakes, you brood of vipers! How can you escape the judgment of hell?[a]
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- 23.33 Gk Gehenna
Luke 12:5
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5 But I will show you whom to fear: fear the one who, after killing, has authority[a] to cast into hell.[b] Yes, I tell you, fear that one!(A)
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