Mark 9:46 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

⁴⁶ {This verse is absent from many manuscripts}.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴⁶ where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴⁶

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴⁶ But if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out: it is better for you to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into the Hell of fire,

Mark 9:46 Cross References

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.

Mark 9:47

And if your eye becomes the occasion for falling away [from God] gouge it out; it would be better for you to enter the kingdom of God with [only] one eye, rather than keeping both eyes and being thrown into hell [i.e., all because one of them caused you to fall away from God].

Luke 16:24

And he shouted out, ‘Forefather Abraham, take pity on me and send Lazarus [to me], so he can dip the tip of his finger in water [and touch] my tongue to cool it, because I am in agony in these flames.’