Μαθθαῖον 5:30

Greek Modern Translation

Και εαν η δεξια σου χειρ σε σκανδαλιζη, εκκοψον αυτην και ριψον απο σου· διοτι σε συμφερει να χαθη εν των μελων σου, και να μη ριφθη ολον το σωμα σου εις την γεενναν.

Parallel Translations

Byzantine/Majority Text
και ει η δεξια σου χεις σκανδαλιζει σε εκκοψον αυτην και βαλε απο σου συμφερει γας σοι ινα αποληται εν των μελων σου και μη ολον το σωμα σου βληθη εις γεενναν

SBL Greek New Testament (2010)
καὶ εἰ ἡ δεξιά σου χεὶρ σκανδαλίζει σε, ἔκκοψον αὐτὴν καὶ βάλε ἀπὸ σοῦ, συμφέρει γάρ σοι ἵνα ἀπόληται ἓν τῶν μελῶν σου καὶ μὴ ὅλον τὸ σῶμά σου ⸂εἰς γέενναν ἀπέλθῃ⸃.

Tischendorf 8th Edition
καὶ εἰ ἡ δεξιά σου χεὶρ σκανδαλίζει σε, ἔκκοψον αὐτὴν καὶ βάλε ἀπὸ σοῦ· συμφέρει γάρ σοι ἵνα ἀπόληται ἓν τῶν μελῶν σου καὶ μὴ ὅλον τὸ σῶμά σου εἰς γέενναν ἀπέλθῃ.

Textus Receptus (1550/1894)
και ει η δεξια σου χεις σκανδαλιζει σε εκκοψον αυτην και βαλε απο σου συμφερει γας σοι ινα αποληται εν των μελων σου και μη ολον το σωμα σου βληθη εις γεενναν

Westcott/Hort UBS4 (1881)
και ει η δεξια σου χειρ σκανδαλιζει σε εκκοψον αυτην και βαλε απο σου συμφερει γαρ σοι ινα αποληται εν των μελων σου και μη ολον το σωμα σου εις γεενναν απελθη

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

offend: Matthew 11:6, Matthew 13:21, Matthew 16:23, Matthew 18:6, Matthew 18:7, Matthew 26:31, Luke 17:2, Romans 9:33, Romans 14:20, Romans 14:21, 1 Corinthians 8:13, Galatians 5:11, 1 Peter 2:8

cast: Matthew 22:13, Matthew 25:20, Luke 12:5

Reciprocal: Job 20:13 - spare it Job 36:21 - regard Psalms 18:23 - I kept Psalms 144:8 - their right hand Matthew 5:22 - hell Matthew 18:8 - if Mark 8:34 - Whosoever Mark 9:43 - if Acts 19:19 - and burned 2 Corinthians 4:16 - though 2 Corinthians 7:11 - revenge

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And if thy right hand offend thee,.... Or "cause thee to offend"; that is, is the means of ensnaring thine heart; and of drawing thee into either mental, or actual adultery; for, as before, all unchaste looks, so here, all unchaste touches, embraces, c. are condemned. As adultery may be committed in the heart, and by the eye, so with the hand:

"says R. Eliezer a what is the meaning of that Scripture, "your hands are full of blood", Isaiah 1:15? It is replied, אלו המנאפים ביד, "these are they, that commit adultery with the hand". It is a tradition of the house of R. Ishmael, that the sense of that command, "thou shalt not commit adultery", is, there shall be none that commits adultery in thee, whether "with the hand", or "with the foot".''

Like orders are given as before,

cut it off, and cast it from thee as a man would choose to do, or have it done for him, when such a part of the body is mortified, and endangers all the rest. The Jews enjoined cutting off of the hand, on several accounts; if in a morning, before a man had washed his hands, he put his hand to his eye, nose, mouth, ear, c. תיקצץ, it was to be "cut off" b particularly, the handling of the "membrum virile", was punishable with cutting off of the hand.

"Says R. c Tarphon, if the hand is moved to the privy parts, תקצץ ידו, "let his hand be cut off to his navel".''

That is, that it may reach no further; for below that part of the body the hand might not be put d; lest unclean thoughts, and desires, should be excited. In the above e place it is added,

"what if a thorn should be in his belly, must he not take it away? It is replied, no: it is further asked, must not his belly be ripped up then? It is answered, it is better that his belly be ripped up, ואל ירד לבאר שחת, "than that he should go down to the pit of corruption."''

A way of speaking, much like what our Lord here uses; and to the above orders and canons, he may be very well thought to allude: but he is not to be understood literally, as enjoining the cutting off of the right hand, as they did; but of men's refraining from all such impure practices, either with themselves, or women, which are of a defiling nature; and endanger the salvation of them, body and soul; the same reason is given as before.

a T. Bab. Nidda, fol. 13. 2. Vid. Maimon. Issure Bia, c. 21. sect. 18. b T. Bab. Sabbat. fol. 108. 2. Massechet Callah, fol. 17. 1. c T. Bab. Nidda, fol. 13. 2. d Maimon. lssure Bia, c. 21. sect. 23. e T. Bab. Nidda, fol. 13. 2.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And if thy right hand offend thee - The right hand is selected for the same reason as the right eye, because it is one of the most important members of the human body. The idea is, that the dearest earthly objects are to be sacrificed rather than that we should commit sin; that the most rigid self-denial should be practiced, and that the most absolute self-government should be maintained at any sacrifice, rather than that we should suffer the mind to be polluted by unholy thoughts and impure desires.