What is does Matthew 5:29 mean?

In Matthew 5:29-30, Christ states, “And if your right eye offend you, pluck it out, and cast it from you: for it is profitable for you that one of your members should perish, and not that your whole body should be cast into hell. read more

In Matthew 5.29 he uses this technique to emphasize how crucially important eternal life and living a righteous life is. He is saying essentially what he says in Matthew 6.33 and 13.45–46 and many other places: that the kingdom of God is (or should be) the most important thing in your life. read more

Matthew 5: 29-30. If thy right eye offend thee — If any person or thing, as pleasant and as dear to thee as thy right eye, should be a stumbling-block in thy way, and an occasion of thy falling, or should be a means of insnaring thee, and leading thee into sin, pluck it out — With inexorable resolution: that is, give up and part with the beloved object. read more

Matthew 5: 29, NIV: "If your right eye causes you to stumble, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell." Matthew 5: 29, ESV: "If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. read more