Read Full ChapterIf 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.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.
World English Bible (WEB)
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Strong's King James
(29) But if your right eye makes you sin, tear it out and throw from you for its profitable for you that one of your members be lost and not your whole body thrown into Gei-Hinnom (hell).
The F.O.G
If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. Better to lose one part of your body than have your whole body thrown into hell.
The F.O.G Paraphrase
‘But, if thy right eye doth cause thee to stumble, pluck it out and cast from thee, for it is good to thee that one of thy members may perish, and not thy whole body be cast to gehenna.
Young's Literal Translation
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