9 Bible Verses about Cutting Off Hands And Feet

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Matthew 5:30

And if your right hand is a cause of trouble to you, let it be cut off 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.

Matthew 18:8

And if your hand or your foot is a cause of trouble, let it be cut off and put it away from you: it is better for you to go into life with the loss of a hand or a foot than, having two hands or two feet, to go into the eternal fire.

2 Samuel 4:12

And David gave orders to his young men and they put them to death, cutting off their hands and their feet and hanging them up by the side of the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ish-bosheth and put it in its last resting-place with Abner's body in Hebron.

Deuteronomy 25:12

Her hand is to be cut off; have no pity on her.

Mark 9:43

And if your hand is a cause of trouble to you, let it be cut off; it is better for you to go into life with one hand than to have two hands and go into hell, into the eternal fire.

Proverbs 26:6

He who sends news by the hand of a foolish man is cutting off his feet and drinking in damage.

1 Samuel 5:4

And when they got up early on the morning after, Dagon had come down to the earth on his face before the ark of the Lord; and his head and his hands were broken off on the doorstep; only the base was in its place.

Judges 1:6

But Adoni-zedek went in flight; and they went after him and overtook him, and had his thumbs and his great toes cut off.

Judges 1:7

And Adoni-zedek said, Seventy kings, whose thumbs and great toes had been cut off, got broken meat under my table: as I have done, so has God done to me in full. And they took him to Jerusalem, and he came to his end there.

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Punishments » Secondary kinds of » Cutting off hands and feet

2 Samuel 4:12

And David gave orders to his young men and they put them to death, cutting off their hands and their feet and hanging them up by the side of the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ish-bosheth and put it in its last resting-place with Abner's body in Hebron.

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