45. And if your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off! It’s better for you to enter life lame than, having your two feet, to be thrown into Gehenna.
46. [footnote: Verses omitted; some mss. read: where their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched.]
47. If your eye causes you to stumble, tear it out! It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than, having two eyes, to be thrown into Gehenna,
48. where ‘their worm does not die and the fire is not quenched.’
49. “For everyone will be salted with fire.
50. Salt is good; but if the salt becomes unsalty, with what will you flavor it? Have salt in yourselves, and keep shalom with one another.”