"If your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life maimed or crippled than to have two hands or two feet and be thrown into eternal fire" (Matthew 18:8).
The language is getting pretty graphic. We just found out it would be better to take a plunge with a millstone around our neck than to lead a child into sin. Now we're looking at cutting off our food and throwing it away or wacking off our hand and tossing it. "It [would be] better for you to enter life maimed or crippled then to have two hands or two feet and thrown into eternal fire" (Matthew 18:8). Wounded, bleeding, maimed that's how we sometimes come out of our fight with sin. But it's better to get our nicks here than to lose life eternally.
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