Bible Verses About Matthew 5:29-30 And Removing Causes Of Sin

And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.

Direct passage for the right eye saying

And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.

Direct passage for the right hand saying

And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire.

Direct parallel passage in Matthew 18:9

Wherefore if thy hand or thy foot offend thee, cut them off, and cast them from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life halt or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into everlasting fire.

Direct parallel passage in Matthew 18:8

And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out: it is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire:

Direct Mark parallel for eye causing sin

And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched:

Direct Mark parallel for hand causing sin

And if thy foot offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter halt into life, than having two feet to be cast into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched:

Direct Mark parallel for foot causing sin

Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh!

Direct passage on temptations and the one who causes them

But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.

Direct passage on causing little ones to sin

Then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall not pity her.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

Then said he unto the disciples, It is impossible but that offences will come: but woe unto him, through whom they come!

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to them that are weak.

Brother stumbling language in Paul

Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in his brother's way.

No stumbling-block principle in Paul

And whosoever shall offend one of these little ones that believe in me, it is better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea.

Mark parallel to Matthew 18:6

It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.

Brother-stumbling principle closely related to the topic

It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.

Millstone warning parallel to Matthew 18:6

But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!

Related eye imagery but not the removal command

The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when thine eye is evil, thy body also is full of darkness.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

So that thou shalt be mad for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.

Beam and mote passage related to removing faults

The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.

Single-eye saying related to eye imagery