Mark 9:42–10:12
42 “aWhoever causes one of these 1little ones who believe to stumble, it 2would be better for him if, with a heavy millstone hung around his neck, he 3had been cast into the sea.
43 “aIf your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off; it is better for you to enter life crippled, than, having your two hands, to go into 1bhell, into the cunquenchable fire,
44 [1where their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched.]
45 “If your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off; it is better for you to enter life lame, than, having your two feet, to be cast into 1ahell,
46 [1where their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched.]
47 “aIf your eye causes you to stumble, throw it out; it is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye, than, having two eyes, to be cast into 1bhell,
48 awhere their worm does not die, and bthe fire is not quenched.
49 “For everyone will be salted with fire.
50 “Salt is good; but aif the salt becomes unsalty, with what will you 1make it salty again? bHave salt in yourselves, and cbe at peace with one another.”
1 aGetting up, He * went from there to the region of Judea and beyond the Jordan; crowds * gathered around Him again, and, baccording to His custom, He once more began to teach them.
2 Some Pharisees came up to Jesus, testing Him, and began to question Him whether it was lawful for a man to 1divorce a wife.
3 And He answered and said to them, “What did Moses command you?”
4 They said, “aMoses permitted a man to write a certificate of divorce and 1send her away.”
5 But Jesus said to them, “1aBecause of your hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment.
6 “But afrom the beginning of creation, God bmade them male and female.
7 “aFor this reason a man shall leave his father and mother1,
8 aand the two shall become one flesh; so they are no longer two, but one flesh.
9 “What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.”
10 In the house the disciples began questioning Him about this again.
11 And He * said to them, “aWhoever 1divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery against her;
12 and aif she herself 1divorces her husband and marries another man, she is committing adultery.”