Matthew 18:8

And if your hand or your foot causes a michshol for you, cut it off, and throw it from you. It is better for you to enter Chayyim crippled or as one of the pisechim (lame), than, having two hands and two feet, to be cast into the Eish Olam (Eternal Fire).

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

Wherefore if thy hand or thy foot offend thee, cut them off, and cast them from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life halt or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into everlasting fire.

In Context

7Oy lOlam (Woe to the World) because of its michsholim (stumbling blocks)! For it is inevitable that michsholim come; but oy to that man through whom the michshol comes.

9And if your eye causes a michshol for you, pluck it out and throw it from you. It is better for you to enter Chayyim one-eyed than, having two eyes, to be cast into the Gehinnom HaEish.

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Cross References

Isaiah 2:20In Yom Hahu a man shall cast 1 his elilei kesef, and his elilei zahav, 1 which they made each one for himself to worship, 1 to the moles and to the bats; 1

Isaiah 33:14The chatta'im (sinners) in Tziyon are terrified; 1 trembling hath seized the khanafim (hypocrites). 1 Who among us can dwell with the devouring eish? 1 Who among us can dwell with mokedei olam + 33:14 see Dan 12:2 (everlasting burnings)? 1

Matthew 5:29And if your right eye causes you to commit chet (sin), tear it out and throw it from you, for it is better for you that one of your evarim (members) be lost and not your whole basar (body, flesh) be thrown into Gehinnom.

Matthew 15:30And great multitudes approached Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, having with them pisechim (lame), ivrim (blind), the crippled, the mute, and many others, and they laid them at Moshiachʼs feet, and Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach gave the cholim (sick persons) refuah (healing).

Matthew 25:46And these will go away into Onesh Olam (Eternal Punishment), but the tzaddikim into Chayyei Olam (Eternal Life). + 25:46 Isa 66:24; Dan 12:2

Luke 14:26If someone comes to me, and does not hate + 14:26 hyperbolically, in comparison to Moshiach his own Abba and Em (mother) and isha and yeladim and achim and achayot and in addition also his own life, + 14:26 in the Olam Hazeh he is not able to be my + 14:26 Moshiachʼs talmid.

Matthew Henry on Matthew 18:8-15

Cautions against Offences. 7 Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh! 8 Wherefore if thy hand or thy foot offend thee, cut them off, and cast them from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life halt or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into everlasting fire. 9 And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life with one eye, rather than… Read the whole commentary →

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