Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
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:
If
Maimed
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Bible References
If
Matthew 5:29
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.
Matthew 18:8
If your hand or your foot is a hindrance to you, cut it off and throw it away; better be maimed or crippled and get into Life, than keep both feet or hands and be thrown into the everlasting fire.
Romans 8:13
If you live by the flesh, you are on the road to death; but if by the Spirit you put the actions of the body to death, you will live.
Galatians 5:24
Now those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its emotions and passions.
Colossians 3:5
So put to death those members that are on earth: sexual vice, impurity, appetite, evil desire, and lust (which is idolatry),
Titus 2:12
and it schools us to renounce irreligion and worldly passions and to live a life of self-mastery, of integrity, and of piety in this present world,
Hebrews 12:1
Therefore, with all this host of witnesses encircling us, we must strip off every handicap, strip off sin with its clinging folds, to run our appointed course steadily,
1 Peter 2:1
So off with all malice, all guile and insincerity and envy and slander of every kind!
Maimed
Matthew 15:30
And large crowds came to him bringing the lame, and the blind, the dumb, the maimed, and many others; they laid them at his feet, and he healed them.
Luke 14:13
No, when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the maimed, the lame, and the blind.
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Mark 9:45
If your foot is a hindrance to you, cut it off: better get into Life a cripple, than keep your two feet and be thrown into Gehenna.