Mark 9:43 · WEB
“If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life maimed, rather than having your two hands to go into Gehenna, into the unquenchable fire,”
— Mark 9:43
Era
Life of Jesus (~30 AD)
Emotion
deciding
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narrative
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Commandsacrificeholiness
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