Matthew 5:29

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Matthew 5:29

Parallel Verses

Holman Bible

If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of the parts of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.

New American Standard Bible

If your right eye makes you stumble, tear it out and throw it from you; for it is better for you to lose one of the parts of your body, than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.

King James Version

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.

International Standard Version

So if your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one of your body parts than to have your whole body thrown into hell.

A Conservative Version

And if thy right eye causes thee to stumble, remove it and cast it from thee, for it is advantageous for thee that one of thy body-parts should perish, and not thy whole body be cast into hell.

American Standard Version

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

If your right eye makes you stumble and leads you to sin, tear it out and throw it away [that is, remove yourself from the source of temptation]; for it is better for you to lose one of the parts of your body, than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.

An Understandable Version

And if your right eye is what ensnares you into falling away [from God], gouge it out and throw it away from you. For it would be better for you to lose a part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell. [Note: This is the word "Gehenna," and because of its Old Testament connotation of burning bodies, II Chron. 33:6, it is used figuratively here, and elsewhere, to describe the place of future, final punishment of the wicked].

Anderson New Testament

If, then, your right eye ensnare you, tear it out, and throw it from you; for it is profitable for you that one of your members should perish, and not that your whole body should be thrown into hell.

Bible in Basic English

And if your right eye is a cause of trouble to you, take it out and put it away from you; because it is better to undergo the loss of one part, than for all your body to go into hell.

Common New Testament

If your right eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one of your members than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.

Daniel Mace New Testament

If your right eye insnare you, it is better to pull it out, and to suffer the loss of that single part, than that thy whole body should be cast into Gehenna.

Darby Translation

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

Godbey New Testament

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

Goodspeed New Testament

But if your right eye makes you fall, tear it out and throw it away, for you might better lose one part of your body than have it all thrown into the pit!

John Wesley New Testament

But if thy right eye cause thee to offend, 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.

Julia Smith Translation

And if thine eye give thee cause of offence, take it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members be destroyed, and not thy whole body be cast into hell.

King James 2000

And if your right eye causes you to offend, pluck it out, and cast it from you: for it is better for you that one of your members should perish, and not that your whole body should be cast into hell.

Lexham Expanded Bible

And if your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw [it] from you! For it is better for you that one of your members be destroyed than your whole body be thrown into hell.

Modern King James verseion

And if your right eye offends you, pluck it out and throw it from you. For it is profitable for you that one of your members should perish, and not that your whole body should be thrown into hell.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Wherfore if thy right eye offend thee, pluck him out, and cast him from thee: better it is for thee that one of thy members perish, than that thy whole body should be cast into hell.

Moffatt New Testament

If your right eye is a hindrance to you, pluck it out and throw it away: better for you to lose one of your members than to have all your body thrown into Gehenna.

Montgomery New Testament

And if your eye, your right eye, entices you to sin, pluck it out and cast it from you. It is better for you to lose one of your bodily organs, than to have your whole body go down into the pit.

NET Bible

If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away! It is better to lose one of your members than to have your whole body thrown into hell.

New Heart English Bible

And if your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you.[note: idiom meaning to stop doing a sin] For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into hell.

Noyes New Testament

And if thy right eye cause thee to offend, pluck it out, and cast it from thee; for it is better for thee that one of thy members should perish, than that thy whole body should be cast into hell.

Sawyer New Testament

But if your right eye offends you, pluck it out and cast it from you; for it is better for you that one of your members should perish, and not that your whole body should be cast into hell.

The Emphasized Bible

And, if, thy right eye, is causing thee to stumble, pluck it out, and cast it from thee, - for it profiteth thee, that, one of thy members, should perish, and not, thy whole body, be cast into gehenna.

Thomas Haweis New Testament

If then thine eye, the right, leads thee to offend, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is highly for thy advantage, that one of thy members be destroyed, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.

Twentieth Century New Testament

If your right eye is a snare to you, take it out and throw it away. It would be best for you to lose one part of your body, and not to have the whole of it thrown into the Pit.

Webster

And if thy right eye shall cause thee to sin, 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.

Weymouth New Testament

If therefore your eye, even the right eye, is a snare to you, tear it out and away with it; it is better for you that one member should be destroyed rather than that your whole body should be thrown into Gehenna.

Williams New Testament

So if your right eye causes you to do wrong, pluck it out of your way; for it is better to have one part of your body suffer loss than to have your whole body go down to the pit.

World English Bible

If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out 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.

Worrell New Testament

"And, if your right eye is causing you to stumble, pluck it out, and cast it from you; for it is profitable for you that one of your members should perish, and not your whole body be cast into Hell.

Worsley New Testament

And therefore if thy right eye cause thee to offend, pluck it out and cast it from thee; for it is better for thee that one part of thee perish, than that thy whole body should be cast into hell:

Youngs Literal Translation

'But, if thy right eye doth cause thee to stumble, pluck it out and cast from thee, for it is good to thee that one of thy members may perish, and not thy whole body be cast to gehenna.

Themes

Body » Resurrection of » Subjugation of

Eternal » For punishments, ancient modes of hell » Greek, gehenna), the place of punishment

Everlasting » For punishments, ancient modes of hell » Greek, gehenna), the place of punishment

Eye » Figurative » The offending

The flesh » Mortify the

Gehenna » Greek, the place of punishment

Hell » Gehenna

Hell » In the rv the greek word "gehenna" is translated "hell" in the following scriptures

Hell » Avoiding hell

Hell » The body suffers in

Judaism » The religion of the jews » To make room for the gospel

Offence » Saints should » Cut off what causes, to themselves

Profit and loss » Profit » Profitable things

Punishment of the The Wicked » Future described as » Hell

the future » Punishment » Future state of the wicked » Hell » Greek, gehenna), the place of punishment

Vision » Of Christ, full of compassion » The danger of the misuse of

Topics

Causing Others To Stumble

Abusive Relationships

Interlinear

English(KJV)

Strong's

Root Form

Definition

Usage

And

G1161

δέ
De

but, and, now, then, also, yet, yea, so, moreover, nevertheless, for, even, , not tr

Usage: 2184

G1487

εἰ
Ei

if, whether, that, not tr,

Usage: 218

thy

G4675
G4675

σοῦ
Sou
σοῦ
Sou

thy, thee, thine, thine own, thou, not tr
thy, thee, thine, thine own, thou, not tr

Usage: 241
Usage: 241

right

G1188

δεξιός
Dexios

right hand, right, right side

Usage: 36

eye

G3788

ὀφθαλμός
Ophthalmos

eye, sight

Usage: 57

offend

G4624

σκανδαλίζω
Skandalizo

offend, make to offend

Usage: 10

thee

G4571
G4675

σέ
Se
σοῦ
Sou

thee, thou, thy house, not tr
thy, thee, thine, thine own, thou, not tr

Usage: 110
Usage: 241

pluck

G1807

ἐξαιρέω
Exaireo

deliver, pluck out, rescue

Usage: 5

G846

him, his, their, he, her, they, same, himself,

Usage: 0

out

G1807

ἐξαιρέω
Exaireo

deliver, pluck out, rescue

Usage: 5

and

G2532
G2532

and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and

Usage: 0
Usage: 0

cast

G906

βάλλω
Ballo

cast, put, thrust, cast out, lay, lie,

Usage: 66

it from

G575

ἀπό
Apo

from, of, out of, for, off, by, at, in, since 9, on, not tr., .

Usage: 490

for

G1063

γάρ
Gar

for, , not tr

Usage: 825

it is profitable

G4851

συμφέρω
Sumphero

be expedient, profit, be profitable, bring together, be better, be good

Usage: 13

for thee

G4671

σοί
Soi

thee, thou, thy, thine own, not tr

Usage: 113

that

G2443

ἵνα
Hina

that, to,

Usage: 472

one

G1520

εἷς
heis

one, a, other, some, not tr,

Usage: 188

G3196

μέλος
melos

member

Usage: 32

members

G3196

μέλος
melos

member

Usage: 32

should perish

G622

ἀπόλλυμι
Apollumi

perish, destroy, lose, be lost, lost,

Usage: 37

not

G3361

μή
me

not, no, that not, God forbid 9, lest, neither, no man , but, none, not translated,

Usage: 493

that thy

G4675

σοῦ
Sou

thy, thee, thine, thine own, thou, not tr

Usage: 241

whole

G3650

ὅλος
Holos

all, whole, every whit, altogether, throughout

Usage: 83

body

G4983

σῶμα
Soma

body, bodily, slave

Usage: 123

should be cast

G906

βάλλω
Ballo

cast, put, thrust, cast out, lay, lie,

Usage: 66

into

G1519

εἰς
Eis

into, to, unto, for, in, on, toward, against,

Usage: 1267

References

Word Count of 37 Translations in Matthew 5:29

Verse Info

Bible Rank: 2287
Matthew Rank: 207
19 Topics
16 Themes
18 Cross References
1 Reading
Interlinear
7 Phrases
2 Names
18 References

Context Readings

The Sermon On The Mount: Adultery And Lust

²⁸ But I tell you, everyone who looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart. ²⁹ If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of the parts of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell. ³⁰ And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of the parts of your body than for your whole body to go into hell!