It is better for you to enter life maimed or crippled than to have two hands or two feet and be thrown into eternal fire.

It is better for you to enter life maimed or crippled than to have two hands or two feet and be thrown into eternal fire.

Mt 18:8

⁸ If your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life maimed or crippled than to have two hands or two feet and be thrown into eternal fire.

Mt 19:16

¹⁶ Just then a man came up to Jesus and asked, “Teacher, what good thing must I do to get eternal life?”

¹⁷ “Why do you ask me about what is good?” Jesus replied. “There is only One who is good. If you want to enter life, keep the commandments.”

¹⁸ “Which ones?” he inquired.

Jesus replied, “‘You shall not murder, you shall not commit adultery, you shall not steal, you shall not give false testimony, ¹⁹ honor your father and mother,’^[c] and ‘love your neighbor as yourself.’^[d]”

Mt 19:29

²⁹ And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife^[e] or children or fields for my sake will receive a hundred times as much and will inherit eternal life.

Mk 3:29

²⁸ Truly I tell you, people can be forgiven all their sins and every slander they utter, ²⁹ but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven; they are guilty of an eternal sin.”

We learn the following from the above verses

1)    It is better for you to enter life maimed or crippled than to have two hands or two feet and be thrown into eternal fire.

2)    Keep God’s commandments to enter eternal life

3)    You shall not murder, you shall not commit adultery, you shall not steal, you shall not give false testimony, honor your father and mother,’^[c] and ‘love your neighbor as yourself.’

4)    Everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife^[e] or children or fields for my sake will receive a hundred times as much and will inherit eternal life.

5)    People can be forgiven all their sins and every slander they utter,  but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven; they are guilty of an eternal sin.