Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

⁶ “Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to trip up,” he went on, “it would be better for them to have a huge millstone hung around their neck and be drowned far out in the deep sea. ⁷ It’s a terrible thing for the world that people will be made to stumble. Obstacles are bound to appear and trip people up, but it will be terrible for the person who makes them come.”

More about the “little ones”

⁸ “But if your hand or your foot causes you to trip up,” Jesus continued, “cut it off and throw it away. It’s better to enter into life crippled or lame than to go into eternal fire with both hands and both feet! ⁹ And if your eye causes you to trip up, pull it out and throw it away. Going into life with one eye is better than going into hell with two!