Matthew 5:30 BSB — MannaFest

Matthew 5:30

And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to depart into hell.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And if thy right hand causeth thee to stumble, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not thy whole body go into hell.

KJV

And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.

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Commentary

3 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)

And if thy right hand offend thee,.... Or "cause thee to offend"; that is, is the means of ensnaring thine heart; and of drawing thee into either mental, or actual adultery; for, as before, all unchaste looks, so here, all unchaste touches, embraces, &c. are condemned. As adultery may be committed in the heart, and by the eye, so with the hand: "says R. Eliezer (a) what is the meaning of that Scripture, "your hands are full of blood", Isa 1:15? It is replied, אלו המנאפים ביד, "these are they, that commit adultery with the hand".

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

Jerome

Catena Aurea by Aquinas (420)

Therefore by the right eye and the right hand we must understand the love of brethren, husbands and wives, parents and kinsfolk; which if we find to hinder our view of the true light, we ought to sever from us. Otherwise; As above He had placed lust in the looking on a woman, so now the thought and sense straying hither and thither He calls 'the eye.' By the right hand and the other parts of the body, He means the initial movements of desire and affection.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

And if thy right hand offend thee - The right hand is selected for the same reason as the right eye, because it is one of the most important members of the human body. The idea is, that the dearest earthly objects are to be sacrificed rather than that we should commit sin; that the most rigid self-denial should be practiced, and that the most absolute self-government should be maintained at any sacrifice, rather than that we should suffer the mind to be polluted by unholy thoughts and impure desires.

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Original language & word study

32 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
Καὶ	Kai	And	G2532 →
εἰ	ei	if	G1487 →
ἡ	hē	the	G3588 →
δεξιά	dexia	right	G1188 →
σου	sou	of you	G4771 →
χεὶρ	cheir	hand	G5495 →
σκανδαλίζει	skandalizei	causes to stumble	G4624 →
σε,	se	you,	G4771 →
ἔκκοψον	ekkopson	do cut off	G1581 →
αὐτὴν	autēn	it	G846 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
βάλε	bale	do cast [it]	G906 →
ἀπὸ	apo	from	G575 →
σοῦ·	sou	you;	G4771 →
συμφέρει	sumpherei	it is better	G4851 →
γάρ	gar	indeed	G1063 →
σοι	soi	for you	G4771 →
ἵνα	ina	that	G2443 →
ἀπόληται	apolētai	may perish	G622 →
ἓν	hen	one	G1520 →
τῶν	tōn	of the	G3588 →
μελῶν	melōn	members	G3196 →
σου	sou	of you	G4771 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
μὴ	mē	not	G3361 →
ὅλον	holon	all	G3650 →
τὸ	to	the	G3588 →
σῶμά	sōma	body	G4983 →
σου	sou	of you	G4771 →
εἰς	eis	into	G1519 →
γέενναν	geennan	hell	G1067 →
ἀπέλθῃ.¶	apelthē	may depart.	G565 →

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
1 Peter 2:8
and, “A stone of stumbling and a rock of offense.” They stumble because they disobey the word—and to this they were appointed.
leads to
- Isaiah 8:14
  And He will be a sanctuary—but to both houses of Israel a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense, to the dwellers of Jerusalem a trap and a snare.
- 1 Corinthians 1:23
  but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles,
Through
Matthew 5:29
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…
leads to
- 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.
- Mark 9:43–48
  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.
- Colossians 3:5
  Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry.
- Romans 6:6
  We know that our old self was crucified with Him so that the body of sin might be rendered powerless, that we should no longer be slaves to sin.
- 1 Peter 4:1–3
  Therefore, since Christ suffered in His body, arm yourselves with the same resolve, because anyone who has suffered in his body is done with sin.
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…