Mark 9:44
[[where their worm is not dying, and the fire is not being quenched.]]
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
In Context
Cross References
Isaiah 33:14Sinners have been afraid in Zion, || Trembling has seized the profane: Who dwells for us—consuming fire, || Who dwells for us—burnings of the age?
Matthew 3:12whose fan [is] in His hand, and He will thoroughly cleanse His floor, and will gather His wheat into the storehouse, but He will burn the chaff with unquenchable fire.”
Matthew 25:46And these will go away into continuous punishment, but the righteous into continuous life.”
Mark 9:48where their worm is not dying, and the fire is not being quenched;
Revelation 14:10he also will drink of the wine of the wrath of God that has been mingled unmixed in the cup of His anger, and he will be tormented in fire and brimstone before the holy messengers, and before the Lamb,
Revelation 20:15and if anyone was not found written in the Scroll of Life, he was cast into the lake of the fire.
Matthew Henry on Mark 9:42-50
Pain to Be Preferred to Sin. 41 For whosoever shall give you a cup of water to drink in my name, because ye belong to Christ, verily I say unto you, he shall not lose his reward. 42 And whosoever shall offend one of these little ones that believe in me, it is better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea. 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… Read the whole commentary →