Mark 9:43 - The Scriptures 1998

⁴³ “And if your hand makes you stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life crippled, than having two hands, to go into Gehenna, into the unquenchable fire,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴³ And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴³ And if your hand puts a stumbling block before you and causes you to sin, cut it off! It is more profitable and wholesome for you to go into life [that is really worthwhile] maimed than with two hands to go to hell (Gehenna), into the fire that cannot be put out.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴³ And if thy hand cause thee to stumble, cut it off: it is good for thee to enter into life maimed, rather than having thy two hands to go into hell, into the unquenchable fire.

Common English Bible

⁴³ If your hand causes you to fall into sin, chop it off. It’s better for you to enter into life crippled than to go away with two hands into the fire of hell, which can’t be put out.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴³ where their worm does not die, and the fire is not extinguished.

Mark 9:43 Cross References

Job 20:13

though he fondles it and does not forsake it, but still keeps it in his mouth,

Isaiah 1:31

The strong shall be for tow, and his work for a spark. And both shall burn together, with no one to extinguish.

Jeremiah 4:4

“Circumcise yourselves unto יהוה, and take away the foreskins of your hearts, you men of Yehuḏ

Matthew 17:27

“But, lest we cause them to stumble, go to the sea, cast in a hook, and take the fish that comes up first. And when you have opened its mouth, you shall find a piece of money. Take that and give it to them for Me and you.”

Matthew 25:41

“He shall then also say to those on the left hand, ‘Go away from Me, accursed ones, into the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his messengers –

Matthew 3:12

“His winnowing fork is in His hand, and He shall thoroughly cleanse His threshing-floor, and gather His wheat into the storehouse, but the chaff He shall burn with unquenchable fire.”

Matthew 5:22

“But I say to you that whoever is wroth with his brother without a cause shall be liable to judgment. And whoever says to his brother, ‘Raka!’ shall be liable to the Sanhedrin. But whoever says, ‘You fool!’ shall be liable to fire of Gehenna.

Mark 9:44

where ‘their worm does not die and the fire is not quenched.’

Luke 14:13

“But when you give a feast, invite poor ones, crippled ones, lame ones, blind ones,

Luke 14:21

“And that servant came and reported this to his master. Then the master of the house, being wroth, said to his servant, ‘Hurry out into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in here the poor, and crippled, and lame, and blind.’

Luke 3:17

“His winnowing fork is in His hand, and He shall thoroughly cleanse His threshing-floor, and gather the wheat into His storehouse, but the chaff He shall burn with unquenchable fire.”

Romans 8:13

For if you live according to the flesh, you are going to die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you shall live.

1 Corinthians 9:27

But I treat my body severely and make it my slave, so that when I have proclaimed to others, I myself might be rejected.

Galatians 5:24

And those who are of Messiah have impaled the flesh with its passions and the desires.

Colossians 3:5

Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth: whoring, uncleanness, passion, evil desire and greed of gain, which is idolatry.

Titus 2:12

instructing us to renounce wickedness and worldly lusts, and to live sensibly, righteously, and reverently in the present age,

Hebrews 12:1

We too, then, having so great a cloud of witnesses all around us, let us lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race set before us,

1 Peter 2:1

Having put aside, then, all evil, and all deceit, and hypocrisies, and envyings, and all evil words,