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but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him if a huge millstone were hung around his neck and that he were sunk in the depths of the sea.

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But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in and [a]acknowledge and cleave to Me to stumble and sin [that is, who entices him or hinders him in right conduct or thought], it would be better ([b]more expedient and profitable or advantageous) for him to have a great millstone fastened around his neck and to be sunk in the depth of the sea.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 18:6 Hermann Cremer, Biblico-Theological Lexicon.
  2. Matthew 18:6 G. Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon.