Matthew 18:7-9
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
7 “Woe to the world for temptations to sin![a] For it is necessary that temptations come, but woe to the man by whom the temptation comes! 8 And if your hand or your foot causes you to sin,[b] cut it off and throw it from you; it is better for you to enter life maimed or lame than with two hands or two feet to be thrown into the eternal fire. 9 And if your eye causes you to sin,[c] 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[d][e] of fire.
Read full chapterFootnotes
- Matthew 18:7 Greek stumbling blocks
- Matthew 18:8 Greek causes . . . to stumble
- 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.
The Revised Standard Version of the Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1965, 1966 the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Bible Gateway Recommends
