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Matthew 18:8-10
New English Translation
Matthew 18:8-10
New English Translation
8 If[a] your hand or your foot causes you to sin,[b] cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life crippled or lame than to have[c] two hands or two feet and be thrown into eternal fire. 9 And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter into life with one eye than to have[d] two eyes and be thrown into fiery hell.[e]
The Parable of the Lost Sheep
10 “See that you do not disdain one of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father in heaven.[f]
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- Matthew 18:8 tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.
- Matthew 18:8 sn In Greek there is a wordplay that is difficult to reproduce in English here. The verb translated “causes…to sin” (σκανδαλίζω, skandalizō) comes from the same root as the word translated “stumbling blocks” (σκάνδαλον, skandalon) in the previous verse.
- Matthew 18:8 tn Grk “than having.”
- Matthew 18:9 tn Grk “than having.”
- Matthew 18:9 tn Grk “the Gehenna of fire.”sn See the note on the word hell in 5:22.
- Matthew 18:10 tc The most significant mss, along with others (א B L* Θ* ƒ1, 13 33 892* e ff1 sys sa), do not include 18:11 “For the Son of Man came to save the lost.” The verse is included in D Lmg N W Γ Δ Θc 078vid 565 579 700 892c 1241 1424 M lat syc,p,h, but is almost certainly not original, being borrowed from the parallel in Luke 19:10. The present translation follows NA28 in omitting the verse number as well, a procedure also followed by a number of other modern translations.
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