And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire.
And if what you're looking at is leading you down a dark path, cut it out of your life completely. It's way better to live with less but actually make it to real life, than to have everything and end up destroying yourself.
Sometimes you have to lose something good to avoid losing everything that matters.
📚 Historical Context
In the historical context, Jesus was teaching his disciples about the seriousness of sin and the importance of maintaining purity within the community of believers, as part of his broader discourse in Matthew 18 on handling offenses and the value of the soul. This verse uses hyperbolic language, a common rhetorical device in first-century Jewish teaching, to emphasize that removing sources of temptation is preferable to spiritual ruin. Such statements reflect the cultural understanding of sin as something that must be radically addressed to preserve one's relationship with God.
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