Matthew 18:9-10

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁹And if your eye causes you to sin,^[a] pluck it out and throw it from you; it is better for you to enter life with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into the hell^[b]^[c] of fire.

The Parable of the Lost Sheep

¹⁰“See that you do not despise one of these little ones; for I tell you that in heaven their angels always behold the face of my Father who is in heaven.^[d]

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Footnotes

Matthew 18:9 Greek causes . . . to stumble
Matthew 18:9 Greek Gehenna
18.9 Gehenna (see footnote b) was the name of a valley south of Jerusalem where human sacrifice had once been practiced; cf. 2 Chron 33.6. Later it became a cursed place and a refuse dump, and the name came to symbolize the Christian place of punishment.
Matthew 18:10 Other ancient authorities add verse 11, For the Son of man came to save the lost

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