If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is more beautiful for you to enter life maimed than to go hell with two hands, into the unquenchable fire.
Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every encumbrance and the sin that so easily entangles us, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us,
But I tell y’all that everyone who is enraged with their sibling will be subject to judgment. Whoever calls their sibling, ‘You good-for-nothing!’ will be in danger of the council. Whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of hell.
His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor. He will gather his wheat into the barn, but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”
Therefore, y’all must put to death the elements of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, passions, evil desire, and greed, which is idolatry.
“The servant came back and reported this to his master. Then the owner of the house was enraged and said to his servant, ‘Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in the poor, crippled, blind, and lame.’
Y’all must circumcise yourselves* to YHWH, and take away the foreskins of y’all’s heart, men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem, or else my wrath will go out like fire and burn so that no one can quench it, because of the of y’all’s evil deeds.
But so that we don’t offend them, go to the sea and throw out a hook. Take up the first fish that comes up, and when you open its mouth, you will find a four-drachma coin. Take that, and give it to them for me and you.”
His winnowing fork is in his hand to cleanse his threshing floor and to gather the wheat into his barn, but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”