Mat 18:6-9, Luk 17:1-2 | ISV | STEP | “If anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him if a large millstone were hung around his neck and he were drowned at the bottom of the sea.

Matthew 18:6-9

6 “If anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him if a large millstone were hung around his neck and he were drowned at the bottom of the sea.Mark 9:42; Luke 17:1-2 7 How terrible it will be for the world because it causes people to sin! Temptations to sin are bound to happen, but how terrible it will be for that person who causes someone to sin!Matt 26:24; Luke 17:1; 1Cor 11:19

8 “So if your hand or your foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life injured or crippled than to have two hands or two feet and be thrown into eternal fire.Matt 5:29-30; Mark 9:43, 45 9 And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into hell ^{▼▼Gk. Gehenna; a Gk. transliteration of the Heb. for Valley of Hinnom} fire.

Luke 17:1-2

1 Causing Others to Sin Matthew 18:6-7, 21-22; Mark 9:42

Jesus ^{▼▼Lit. He} said to his disciples, “It is inevitable that temptations to sin will come, but how terrible it will be for the person through whom they come!Matt 18:6-7; Mark 9:42; 1Cor 11:19 2 It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea than for him to cause one of these little ones to sin.