If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into hell.

And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body go into hell.

but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened around his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.

And if your hand or your foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life crippled or lame than with two hands or two feet to be thrown into the eternal fire.

And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into the hell of fire.

The disciples said to him, “If such is the case of a man with his wife, it is better not to marry.”

The Son of Man goes as it is written of him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for that man if he had not been born.”

and who had suffered much under many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was no better but rather grew worse.

Temptations to Sin

“Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him if a great millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea.

And if your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than with two hands to go to hell, to the unquenchable fire.

And if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life lame than with two feet to be thrown into hell.

And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into hell,

For the Son of Man goes as it is written of him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for that man if he had not been born.”

It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and he were cast into the sea than that he should cause one of these little ones to sin.

So he asked them the hour when he began to get better, and they said to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.”

Nor do you understand that it is better for you that one man should die for the people, not that the whole nation should perish.”

No One Is Righteous

What then? Are we Jews any better off? No, not at all. For we have already charged that all, both Jews and Greeks, are under sin,

One person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind.

But if they cannot exercise self-control, they should marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion.

So then he who marries his betrothed does well, and he who refrains from marriage will do even better.

Food will not commend us to God. We are no worse off if we do not eat, and no better off if we do.

The Lord's Supper

But in the following instructions I do not commend you, because when you come together it is not for the better but for the worse.

Are they servants of Christ? I am a better one—I am talking like a madman—with far greater labors, far more imprisonments, with countless beatings, and often near death.

But granting that I myself did not burden you, I was crafty, you say, and got the better of you by deceit.

I am hard pressed between the two. My desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far better.