Matthew 5:29 meaning and explanation
If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.
Matthew 5:29, Berean Standard Bible
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Jesus is speaking to His disciples in the Sermon on the Mount, pressing the command against adultery inward: the look of lust already commits adultery in the heart. The eye here stands for whatever draws a person into sin, and the language is deliberately shocking hyperbole.
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