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.

and if thy right hand insnare thee, it is better to saw it off, and to suffer the loss of that single part, than that thy whole body should be thrown into Gehenna.

neither do men put new wine into old skins: if they should, the bottles will burst, so that the wine will be lost and the skins be spoil'd: but they put new wine into new skins, whereby both are preserved.

but go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? yet not one of them shall lose its life independently of your father,

he that would preserve his life, shall lose it: and he that exposeth his life for my sake, shall save it.

but he answered, my commission was only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

for whosoever will save himself, shall be a looser: and whosoever shall suffer loss for my sake, shall be a gainer.

from whence the son of man is come, in order to save those that were lost.

in like manner your heavenly father would not that any person of such humility should be lost.