Mark 9:44 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴⁴ where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.

American Standard Version (1901)

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Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴⁴ But if your foot causes you to sin, chop it off: it is better for you to enter into eternal life lame, than having two feet to be cast into the Hell of unquenchable fire,

Mark 9:44 Cross References

Mark 9:43

And if your hand becomes the occasion for falling away [from God], cut it off; it would be better for you to enter [never ending] life disabled, rather than keeping both hands and going to hell, into the fire that cannot be put out [i.e., all because it caused you to fall away from God].

Mark 9:45

And if your foot becomes the occasion for falling away [from God], cut it off; it would be better for you to enter [never ending] life crippled, rather than keeping both feet and being thrown into hell.

Matthew 3:12

His winnowing shovel [Note: This was a process whereby grain was tossed into the air so that the wind could blow the husks away, leaving only good grain on the ground] is in His hand and He will completely clear off His threshing floor [by removing all of the husks]. And He will gather His wheat into the barn, but will burn up the husks with a fire that will never go out.”

Matthew 25:41

Then He [i.e., the King] will say to those at His left side, ‘Go away from me, you who are cursed [by God], into the never ending fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels.

Matthew 25:46

And these [i.e., the ones at His left side] will go away to never ending punishment, but those who did what was right will go to never ending life.”

Mark 9:48

For in hell the worm of those who are there will never die [i.e., their gnawing punishment will never cease] and the fire [there] will never go out.

2 Thessalonians 1:9

They will pay the penalty of never ending destruction, being banished from the presence of the Lord and from His mighty splendor.

Revelation 14:10

he will also [have to] drink the wine of God’s anger, as an undiluted mixture in the cup of His anger. And he will be tortured with burning sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb.

Revelation 20:10

And the devil that [had] deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire, [burning] with sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet also are. [See 19:20]. And [there] these [enemies of God] will be tortured day and night forever and ever.

Revelation 20:15

And if any person’s [name] was not found recorded in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.

Revelation 21:8

But the place for cowards, and unbelievers, and disgusting people [i.e., because of their terrible sins], and murderers, and sexually immoral people, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, will be the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death.”