He is talking about what a believer is like (for example, “poor in spirit” is a person who realizes he is a sinner, as opposed to a self righteous person). This passage is in the context of Jesus’ sermon on the mount.
What? Really? Well, before you pluck out your eye or cut off your hand, let’s consider what Jesus is really saying. If your eye makes you sin, Jesus says literally pluck it out if your hand causes you to sin, literally cut it off. He was just speaking about how serious sin is.” While it’s true that here Jesus is demonstrating the seriousness of sin, I actually think that He is being very literal. I usually heard this interpreted as something like, “Well, Jesus didn’t mean this literally. 30 If your right hand makes you stumble, cut it off and throw it from you for it is better for you to lose one of the parts of your body, than for your whole body to go into hell.”
29 If your right eye makes you stumble, tear it out and throw it from you for it is better for you to lose one of the parts of your body, than for your whole body to be thrown into hell. The passage in Matthew 5 reads as follows (see also Mark 9): “ 27 “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery’ 28 but I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart. One passage that bugged me was when Jesus talked about plucking out your eye and cutting off your hand if either of them caused you to sin.
This has been a very good guide, as I’ve found that most Scripture should be taken literally. A class I took on this said that the best thing is to take what Scripture says literally, unless the text indicates otherwise.
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27 The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash." 28 When Jesus had finished saying these things, the crowds were amazed at his teaching, 29 because he taught as one who had authority, and not as their teachers of the law.When I was a relatively new Christian, I remember trying to figure out how to study the Bible. 26 But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. 25 The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. Away from me, you evildoers!' 24 "Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. 22 Many will say to me on that day, `Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and in your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?' 23 Then I will tell them plainly, `I never knew you. 21 "Not everyone who says to me, `Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 20 Thus, by their fruit you will recognize them. 19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 18 A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? 17 Likewise every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. 16 By their fruit you will recognize them. They come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves. 14 But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. 9 "Which of you, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone? 10 Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? 11 If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him! 12 So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets. 8 For everyone who asks receives he who seeks finds and to him who knocks, the door will be opened. 7 "Ask and it will be given to you seek and you will find knock and the door will be opened to you. If you do, they may trample them under their feet, and then turn and tear you to pieces. 6 "Do not give dogs what is sacred do not throw your pearls to pigs. 3 "Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? 4 How can you say to your brother, `Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? 5 You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye. 2 For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. Bible Gateway Matthew 7 :: NIV Matthew 7 1 "Do not judge, or you too will be judged.
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