Cross references
Mark 9:43
If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than to have two hands and go into hell, into the unquenchable fire.
- a Greek Gehenna; also in verses 45 and 47
- b BYZ and TR include 44 where their worm never dies, and the fire is never quenched; see verse 48 and Isaiah 66:24.
Mark 9:43 has 17 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 14 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Matthew 5:29–30 (19 votes) and Matthew 18:8–9 (14 votes). 45 other verses point back to it. It links with 24 other books, from Genesis 42 to Revelation 20.
Which verses does Mark 9:43 point to?
Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.
- Matthew 5:29–3019 votes
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. And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to depart into hell.
- Matthew 18:8–914 votes
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 crippled or lame than to have two hands and two feet and be thrown into the eternal fire. And if your eye causes you to sin, gouge 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 the fire of hell.
- Matthew 25:4111 votes
Then He will say to those on His left, ‘Depart from Me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.
- Matthew 5:228 votes
But I tell you that anyone who is angry with his brother will be subject to judgment. Again, anyone who says to his brother, ‘Raca,’ will be subject to the Sanhedrin. But anyone who says, ‘You fool!’ will be subject to the fire of hell.
- Hebrews 12:18 votes
Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off every encumbrance and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with endurance the race set out for us.
- Matthew 3:126 votes
His winnowing fork is in His hand to clear His threshing floor and to gather His wheat into the barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”
- Romans 8:135 votes
For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
- Galatians 5:245 votes
Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
- Colossians 3:55 votes
Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry.
- Titus 2:125 votes
It instructs us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live sensible, upright, and godly lives in the present age,
- Mark 9:45–484 votes
If your foot causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life lame than to have two feet and be thrown into hell. …
- Luke 14:134 votes
- 1 Corinthians 9:274 votes
No, I discipline my body and make it my slave, so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified.
- 1 Peter 2:14 votes
- Deuteronomy 13:6–83 votes
- Matthew 15:30–313 votes
- Luke 14:213 votes
Which verses point to Mark 9:43?
The 10 strongest of 45.