Matthew 18:8 BSB — MannaFest

Matthew 18:8

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 two feet and be thrown into the eternal fire.

BSB

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ASV

And if thy hand or thy foot causeth thee to stumble, cut it off, and cast it from thee: it is good for thee to enter into life maimed or halt, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into the eternal fire.

KJV

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.

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Commentary

2 voices

Jerome

Catena Aurea by Aquinas (420)

So all affection, our whole kindred, are severed from us; lest under cover of duty any believer should be exposed to offence. If, He says, he be united to thee as close as is thy hand, or foot, or eye, and is useful to thee, anxious and quick to discern, and yet causes thee offence, and is by the unmeetness of his behaviour drawing thee into hell; it is better for thee that thou lack his kindred, and his profitableness to thee, than that whilst thou seekest to gain thy kindred or friends, thou shouldest have cause of fallings.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)

Wherefore if thy hand or thy foot,.... The same words are repeated here on occasion of offences, as are spoken by Christ, Mat 5:29 on account of unchaste looks, desires and lusts: giving offence to Christ's disciples, or endeavouring, by any means whatever, to cause them to stumble and fall, is equally gratifying the flesh, and no more to be indulged, than the other, on pain of eternal damnation. See Gill on Mat 5:29, Mat 5:30.

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Original language & word study

40 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
εἰ	ei	If	G1487 →
δὲ	de	now	G1161 →
ἡ	hē	the	G3588 →
χείρ	cheir	hand	G5495 →
σου	sou	of you	G4771 →
ἢ	ē	or	G2228 →
ὁ	ho	the	G3588 →
πούς	pous	foot	G4228 →
σου	sou	of you	G4771 →
σκανδαλίζει	skandalizei	causes to sin	G4624 →
σε,	se	you,	G4771 →
ἔκκοψον	ekkopson	do cut off	G1581 →
αὐτὸν	auton	it	G846 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
βάλε	bale	do cast [it]	G906 →
ἀπὸ	apo	from	G575 →
σοῦ·	sou	you;	G4771 →
καλόν	kalon	better	G2570 →
σοί	soi	for you	G4771 →
ἐστιν	estin	it is	G1510 →
εἰσελθεῖν	eiselthein	to enter	G1525 →
εἰς	eis	into	G1519 →
τὴν	tēn	<the>	G3588 →
ζωὴν	zōēn	life	G2222 →
κυλλὸν	kullon	crippled	G2948 →
ἢ	ē	or	G2228 →
χωλὸν	chōlon	lame	G5560 →
ἢ	ē	than	G2228 →
δύο	duo	two	G1417 →
χεῖρας	cheiras	hands	G5495 →
ἢ	ē	or	G2228 →
δύο	duo	two	G1417 →
πόδας	podas	feet	G4228 →
ἔχοντα	echonta	having	G2192 →
βληθῆναι	blēthēnai	to be cast	G906 →
εἰς	eis	into	G1519 →
τὸ	to	the	G3588 →
πῦρ	pur	fire	G4442 →
τὸ	to	<the>	G3588 →
αἰώνιον.	aiōnion	eternal.	G166 →

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
Romans 13:12
The night is nearly over; the day has drawn near. So let us lay aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light.
leads to
- Ezekiel 18:31–32
  Cast away from yourselves all the transgressions you have committed, and fashion for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. Why should you die, O house of Israel?
- Ephesians 5:11
  Have no fellowship with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.
- 2 Corinthians 6:7
  in truthful speech and in the power of God; with the weapons of righteousness in the right hand and in the left;
- Colossians 3:8–17
  But now you must put aside all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips.
- James 1:21
  Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and every expression of evil, and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save your souls.
Through
Ezekiel 18:31
Cast away from yourselves all the transgressions you have committed, and fashion for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. Why should you die, O house of Israel?
leads to
- Psalms 51:10
  Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.
- Ezekiel 36:26
  I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.
- Romans 8:13
  For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.