Matthew 5:30
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.This verse in the real world
In what words
- ἐκκόπτωekkóptōto exscind; figuratively, to frustrate
- συμφέρωsymphérōto bear together (contribute), i.e. (literally) to collect, or (figuratively) to conduce;
- μέλοςmélosa limb or part of the body
- σκανδαλίζωskandalízōto entrap, i.e. trip up (figuratively, stumble (transitively) or entice to sin, apostasy o
- δεξιόςdexiósthe right side or (feminine) hand (as that which usually takes)
- ἀπόλλυμιapóllymito destroy fully (reflexively, to perish, or lose), literally or figuratively
- ὅλοςhólos"whole" or "all", i.e. complete (in extent, amount, time or degree), especially (neuter) a
- βάλλωbállōto throw (in various applications, more or less violent or intense)
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The Hebrew and Greek words standing behind this verse. Word-by-word alignment comes with the interlinear.
Cross-references
Mrk 9:43, Mat 5:29, 1Pe 2:8, Rom 14:20–21, 1Co 8:13, Luk 17:2, Mat 18:6–7, Mat 13:21