Temptations and Trespasses

Jesus warns that it is dreadful to make one of these little ones stumble, and he pronounces woe over the world’s stumbling blocks. He then says it is better to lose a hand, foot, or eye than to keep the whole body and be thrown into fire.

B⁶ut if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea. ⁷Woe to the world for the causes of sin. These stumbling blocks must come, but woe to the man through whom they come! ⁸If your hand or your foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life crippled or lame than to have two hands and two feet and be thrown into the eternal fire. ⁹And if your eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into the fire of hell.