Matthew 5:29
Douay-Rheims
And if thy right eye scandalize thee, pluck it out and cast it from thee. For it is expedient for thee that one of thy members should perish, rather than that thy whole body be cast into hell.
John Chrysostom (attributed)
For as we are every one members one of another, it is better that we should be saved without some one of these members, than that we perish together with them. Or, it is better that we should be saved without one good purpose, or one good work, than that while we seek to perform all good works we perish together with all.
Source details
as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 5:29-30
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.