Matthew 5:30 · WEB
“If your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off, 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.”
— Matthew 5:30
Era
Life of Jesus (~30 AD)
Emotion
deciding
Type
epistle
Emotional genome
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Commandsacrificedrastic action
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