Mark 9:43-50

43 ¹And 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 ²hell,^[a] to ³the unquenchable fire.^[b]

45 ⁴And 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 ⁵hell.

47 ⁶And 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 ⁷hell,

48 'where ⁸their worm does not die and the fire is not quenched.'

49 For everyone will be salted with fire.^[c]

50 ⁹Salt is good, ¹⁰but if the salt has lost its saltiness, how will you make it salty again? ¹¹Have salt in yourselves, and ¹²be at peace with one another."

Cross References

• 1. Matthew 5:30; Matthew 18:8
• 2. See Matthew 5:22, 29
• 3. ver. 48; Matthew 3:12; See Matthew 25:41
• 4. Matthew 18:8
• 5. [See ver. 43 above]
• 6. Matthew 5:29; Matthew 18:9
• 7. See Matthew 5:22, 29
• 8. Isaiah 66:24
• 9. Luke 14:34
• 10. Matthew 5:13
• 11. Ezekiel 43:24; Colossians 4:6; [Ephesians 4:29]
• 12. Romans 12:18; 2 Corinthians 13:11; 1 Thessalonians 5:13; [ver. 34]; See Romans 14:19

Footnotes

• [a]. Greek Gehenna; also verse 47
• [b]. Some manuscripts add verses 44 and 46 (which are identical with verse 48)
• [c]. Some manuscripts add and every sacrifice will be salted with salt