If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into hell.
Founder of Christianity
Matthew 5:29, teaching on radical self-denial to avoid sin.
c. 27-30 CE
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"Be careful not to do your 'acts of righteousness' before men, to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven."
Philosophical"If anyone has ears to hear, let them hear."
Shocking"But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea."
Shocking"And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into the hell of fire."
Shocking"It is more blessed to give than to receive."
Philosophical