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,1 into the unquenchable fire.2
1 Greek Gehenna; also in verses 45 and 47
2 BYZ and TR include 44 where their worm never dies, and the fire is never quenched; see verse 48 and Isaiah 66:24.