29 If your right eye causes you to stumble,(A) 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.

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29 (A)If your right eye causes you to [a]sin, (B)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.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 5:29 Lit. stumble or offend

16 So I strive always to keep my conscience clear(A) before God and man.

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16 (A)This being so, I myself always strive to have a conscience without offense toward God and men.

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Paul’s Hardships

We put no stumbling block in anyone’s path,(A) so that our ministry will not be discredited.

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(A)We give no offense in anything, that our ministry may not be blamed.

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