Matthew 5:29

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

If

Matthew 18:8

Mark 9:43

Pluck

1 Peter 4:1

For

Matthew 16:26

Mark 8:36

Luke 9:24

Bible References

If

"But if your own hand or your own foot makes you fall, cut it off and throw it away. You might better enter upon life maimed or crippled than keep both hands and feet but be thrown into the everlasting fire.

If your hand makes you fall, cut it off. You might better enter upon life maimed, than go with both your hands to the pit, into the fire that cannot be put out.

Pluck

For some are incapable of marriage from their birth, and some have been made so by men, and some have made themselves so for the sake of the Kingdom of Heaven. Let him accept it who can."

for we know that our old self was crucified with him, to do away with our sinful body, so that we might not be enslaved to sin any longer,

for if you live under the control of the physical you will die, but if, by means of the Spirit, you put the body's doings to death, you will live.

But I beat and bruise my body and make it my slave, so that after I have called others to the contest I may not be disqualified myself.

Those who belong to Jesus the Christ have crucified the physical nature with its propensities and cravings.

So treat as dead your physical nature, as far as immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed are concerned; for it is really idolatry.

Since Christ therefore has suffered in our physical nature, you must also arm yourselves with the same resolve. For he who suffers in his physical nature has done with sin,

For

For what good will it do a man if he gains the whole world but parts with his life? What can a man give to buy back his life?

For what good does it do a man to gain the whole world and yet part with his life?

For whoever wants to preserve his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for me will preserve it.