Mark 9:45 BSB — MannaFest

Mark 9:45

If your foot causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life lame than to have two feet and be thrown into hell.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And if thy foot cause thee to stumble, cut it off: it is good for thee to enter into life halt, rather than having thy two feet to be cast into hell.

KJV

And if thy foot offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter halt into life, than having two feet to be cast into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched:

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Commentary

1 voice

Basil of Caesarea

HOMILIES 5, SAYINGS FOR A TIME OF HUNGER AND THIRST 2 (379)

Do not think that I am threatening you with false goblins like some mother or nurse, as they are accustomed to do with small children. Whenever the children wail wildly and incessantly, they put the children to silence by means of bogus tales. But these things I am telling you are not a fiction. Rather, they are true reason publicly proclaimed with a straightforward voice.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)

And if thy foot offend thee, cut it off,.... Such who are that to men, as the foot is to the body, the support of them through whom they have their maintenance and subsistence; and yet these, if they are a means of causing them to stumble and tail, or of leading out of the ways of Christ, and off from him, their company is to be shunned and abstained from; it is better for thee to enter halt into life.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

J.C. Ryle

1816–1900

Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Mark (lightly modernized text, Grace Gems edition) (1857)

We see in these verses, the mind of Christ on the great subject of TOLERATION in religion . The apostle John said to Jesus, "Teacher, we saw a man using your name to cast out demons, but we told him to stop because he isn't one of our group." The man was doing a good work without doubt. He was warring on the same side as the apostles, beyond question. But this did not satisfy John. He did not work in the company of the apostles. He did not fight in line with them. And therefore John had opposed him.

Voices on this verse

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Original language & word study

26 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
καὶ	kai	And	G2532 →
ἐὰν	ean	if	G1437 →
ὁ	ho	the	G3588 →
πούς	pous	foot	G4228 →
σου	sou	of you	G4771 →
σκανδαλίζῃ	skandalizē	shall cause to stumble	G4624 →
σε,	se	you,	G4771 →
ἀπόκοψον	apokopson	do cut off	G609 →
αὐτόν·	auton	it;	G846 →
καλόν	kalon	better	G2570 →
ἐστίν	estin	it is	G1510 →
σε	se	for you	G4771 →
εἰσελθεῖν	eiselthein	to enter	G1525 →
εἰς	eis	into	G1519 →
τὴν	tēn	<the>	G3588 →
ζωὴν	zōēn	life	G2222 →
χωλὸν	chōlon	lame	G5560 →
ἢ	ē	than	G2228 →
τοὺς	tous	the	G3588 →
δύο	duo	two	G1417 →
πόδας	podas	feet	G4228 →
ἔχοντα	echonta	having	G2192 →
βληθῆναι	blēthēnai	to be cast	G906 →
εἰς	eis	into	G1519 →
τὴν	tēn	<the>	G3588 →
γέενναν	geennan	hell	G1067 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Mark 9:43
If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than to have two hands and go into hell, into the unquenchable fire.
leads to
- Matthew 5:29–30
  If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Matthew 18:8–9
  If 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…
- Matthew 25:41
  Then He will say to those on His left, ‘Depart from Me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.
Through
Matthew 5:22
But I tell you that anyone who is angry with his brother will be subject to judgment. Again, anyone who says to his brother, ‘Raca,’ will be subject to the Sanhedrin. But anyone who…
leads to
- 1 John 3:14–15
  We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love our brothers. The one who does not love remains in death.
- 1 John 4:20–21
  If anyone says, “I love God,” but hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen.
- 1 John 2:9
  If anyone claims to be in the light but hates his brother, he is still in the darkness.
- Ephesians 4:26–27
  “Be angry, yet do not sin.” Do not let the sun set upon your anger,
- Ephesians 4:31–32
  Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, outcry and slander, along with every form of malice.