Mark 9:47 · WEB
“If your eye causes you to stumble, cast it out. It is better for you to enter into the Kingdom of God with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the Gehenna of fire,”
— Mark 9:47
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Life of Jesus (~30 AD)
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deciding
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