Mark 9:47
And if your ayin (eye) causes you a michshol, take it out; for it is better for you to enter the Malchut Hashem one-eyed, than, having both eynayim, to be cast into Gehinnom,
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Job 31:1I made a brit (covenant) with mine eyes; 1 how then look I upon a betulah? 1
Matthew 5:22But I say to you, that everyone who harbors kaas (anger) against his Ach, + 5:22 b'Moshiach his chaver, shall be subject to mishpat (judgment); and whoever shall say to his Ach, + 5:22 b'Moshiach Reyka! (Good for nothing!) will be subject to the Sanhedrin; and whoever shall say Shoteh! (Fool) shall be subject to Eish Gehinnom (Fire of Hell).
Matthew 10:37The one who has more ahavah (love) for a tata (papa) or a mama than for me + 10:37 Moshiach is not worthy of me, + 10:37 Moshiach and the one who has more ahavah (love) for a ben or a bat than me is not worthy of me.
Mark 9:43And if your yad causes you a michshol, cut off your yad; for it is better for you if you enter Chayyei Olam as an amputee, than, having both yadayim, you go away into Gehinnom, into the EISH LO TIKHBEH (fire not [ever] extinguished), + 9:43 Verses 43, 44, 46 and 48, see Isa 66:24 [
Galatians 4:15Where then is your birkat Shomayim? For I testify to you that if possible, having torn out your eynayeem (eyes), you would have made a mattanah (gift) of them to me.
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 →