Matthew 5:29 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

²⁹ 7 But let your speech be yea, yea: no, no: and that which is over and above these, is of evil.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁹ And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁹ If your right eye serves as a trap to ensnare you or is an occasion for you to stumble and sin, pluck it out and throw it away. It is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be cast into hell (Gehenna).

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁹ And if thy right eye causeth thee to stumble, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not thy whole body be cast into hell.

Common English Bible

²⁹ And if your right eye causes you to fall into sin, tear it out and throw it away. It’s better that you lose a part of your body than that your whole body be thrown into hell.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁹ And if your right eye causes you to sin, root it out and cast it away from you. For it is better for you that one of your members perish, than that your whole body be cast into Hell.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁹ And if thy right eye scandalize thee, pluck it out and cast it from thee. For it is expedient for thee that one of thy members should perish, rather than that thy whole body be cast into hell.

Matthew 5:29 Cross References

Job 20:13

8 He shall be punished for all that he did, and yet shall not be consumed: according to the multitude of his devices so also shall he suffer.

Matthew 10:28

6 And as a man's enemies shall be they of his own household.

Matthew 11:6

4 And if you will receive it, he is Elias that is to come.

Matthew 16:26

And the disciples hearing, fell upon their face, and were very much afraid.

Matthew 17:27

And if thy hand, or thy foot scandalize thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee. It is better for thee to go into life maimed or lame, than having two hands or two feet, to be cast into everlasting fire.

Matthew 19:12

0 The young man saith to him: All these I have kept from my youth, what is yet wanting to me?

Matthew 23:15

3 Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you tithe mint, and anise, and cummin, and have left the weightier things of the law; judgment, and mercy, and faith. These things you ought to have done, and not to leave those undone.

Matthew 23:33

And he answering, said to them: Do you see all these things? Amen I say to you there shall not be left here a stone upon a stone that shall not be destroyed.

Matthew 5:22

0 And if thy right hand scandalize thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is expedient for thee that one of thy members should perish, rather than that thy whole body be cast into hell.

Matthew 5:30

8 You have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.

Mark 8:36

For he knew not what he said: for they were struck with fear.

Luke 12:5

3 And one of the multitude said to him: Master, speak to my brother that he divide the inheritance with me.

Romans 6:6

4 For sin shall not have dominion over you; for you are not under the law, but under grace.

Romans 8:13

1 Because the creature also itself shall be delivered from the servitude of corruption, into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.

1 Corinthians 9:27

Neither let us tempt Christ: as some of them tempted, and perished by the serpents.

Galatians 5:24

Be not deceived, God is not mocked.

Colossians 3:5

4 But above all these things have charity, which is the bond of perfection: