Matthew 5:29 
Context| NET © | If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away! It is better to lose one of your members than to have your whole body thrown into hell. 1 |
| NIV © | 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 thrown into hell. |
| NASB © | "If your right eye makes you stumble, tear it out and throw it from you; for it is better for you to lose one of the parts of your body, than for your whole body to be thrown into hell. |
| NLT © | So if your eye––even if it is your good eye ––causes you to lust, 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 thrown into hell. |
| MSG © | "Let's not pretend this is easier than it really is. If you want to live a morally pure life, here's what you have to do: You have to blind your right eye the moment you catch it in a lustful leer. You have to choose to live one-eyed or else be dumped on a moral trash pile. |
| BBE © | And if your right eye is a cause of trouble to you, take it out and put it away from you; because it is better to undergo the loss of one part, than for all your body to go into hell. |
| NRSV © | If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away; it is better for you to lose one of your members than for your whole body to be thrown into hell. |
| NKJV © | "If your right eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and cast it from you; for it is more profitable for you that one of your members perish, than for your whole body to be cast into hell. |
| KJV | And <1161> if <1487> thy <4675> right <1188> eye <3788> thee <4571>_, it <846> and <2532> [it] from <575> thee <4675>_: for <1063> for thee <4671> that <2443> one <1520> of thy <4675> members <3196> and <2532> not <3361> [that] thy <4675> whole <3650> body <4983> into <1519> hell <1067>_. {offend...: or, do cause thee to offend} |
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| GREEK | |
| NET © [draft] ITL | If <1487> your <4675> right <1188> eye <3788> causes <4624> you <4571> to sin <4624> , tear <1807> it <846> out <1807> and <2532> throw <906> it away! It is better <4851> to <2443> lose <622> one <1520> of your <4675> members <3196> than <3361> to have your <4675> whole <3650> body <4983> thrown <906> into <1519> hell .<1067> |
| NET © | If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away! It is better to lose one of your members than to have your whole body thrown into hell. 1 |
| NET © Notes |
1 sn On this word here and in the following verse, see the note on the word hell in 5:22. |
