Matthew 18:9
ContextNET © | And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter into life with one eye than to have 1 two eyes and be thrown into fiery hell. 2 |
NIV © | And if your eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into the fire of hell. |
NASB © | "If your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it from you. It is better for you to enter life with one eye, than to have two eyes and be cast into the fiery hell. |
NLT © | And if your eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better to enter heaven half blind than to have two eyes and be thrown into hell. |
MSG © | And if your eye distracts you from God, pull it out and throw it away. You're better off one-eyed and alive than exercising your twenty-twenty vision from inside the fire of hell. |
BBE © | And if your eye is a cause of trouble to you, take it out, and put it away from you: it is better for you to go into life with one eye than, having two eyes, to go into the hell of fire. |
NRSV © | And if your eye causes you to stumble, tear it out and throw it away; it is better for you to enter life with one eye than to have two eyes and to be thrown into the hell of fire. |
NKJV © | "And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes, to be cast into hell fire. |
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NET © [draft] ITL | And <2532> if <1487> your <4675> eye <3788> causes <4624> you <4571> to sin <4624> , tear <1807> it <846> out <1807> and <2532> throw <906> it away <906> . It is <1510> better <2570> for you <4671> to enter <1525> into <1519> life <2222> with one eye <3442> than <2228> to have <2192> two <1417> eyes <3788> and be thrown <906> into <1519> fiery <4442> hell .<1067> |
NET © | And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter into life with one eye than to have 1 two eyes and be thrown into fiery hell. 2 |
NET © Notes |
1 tn Grk “than having.” 2 tn Grk “the Gehenna of fire.” sn See the note on the word hell in 5:22. |