Mark 9:45
If your foot causes you to sin, cut it off! It’s better for you to enter life missing a foot than to have both feet and be thrown into hell. [[46]]
If your foot causes you to sin, cut it off! It’s better for you to enter life missing a foot than to have both feet and be thrown into hell. [[46]]
If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off! It’s better for you to enter life missing a hand than to have two hands and be thrown into hell, to the fire that never goes out. [[44]]
Radicalism in the Face of Sin If anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble and sin, it would be better for him to be thrown into the sea with a large millstone around his neck.
If anyone gives you a drink of water because you belong to Christ and bear his name, truly, I say to you, he will not go without reward.
Jesus answered, “Do not forbid him, for no one who works a miracle in my name can soon after speak evil of me.
The Anonymous Exorcist John said to him, “Master, we saw someone who drove out demons by calling upon your name, and we tried to forbid him because he does not belong to our group.”
“Whoever welcomes a child like this in my name welcomes me; and whoever welcomes me does not only welcome me but also the One who sent me.”
Then he took a small child, placed him in their midst, and wrapping his arms around him, he said to them:
Then he sat down, called the Twelve, and said to them: “If someone wants to be first, let him be last of all and servant of all.”