And if your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into hell. Jesus uses hyperbolic language about self-harm to make a point about priorities.
Do not literalize this into self-mutilation. He's using extreme language to ask: what are you willing to sacrifice to avoid a life that separates you from God? What's worth keeping and what needs to go? It's not about physical damage. It's about radical honesty about what's holding you back.
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