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Matthew 18:9
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
Matthew 18:9
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
9 And 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.
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- 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 18:9
New King James Version
Matthew 18:9
New King James Version
9 And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes, to be cast into [a]hell fire.
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- Matthew 18:9 Gr. Gehenna
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