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If your right eye causes you to sin, GOUGE it out

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Jesus said in Matthew 5:
29 If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away.
That's shocking and graphic language. Jesus meant it seriously but not literally. Even if you literally gouge out your eye, there is no guarantee that you won't sin.
It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.
Losing an eye is better than losing your eternal life. That's certainly and literally true. Still, there is no need to gouge out your eye.

Jesus used powerful hyperbole to point out the seriousness of sin. We need to deal with sin drastically. We need to cut sins out of our lives.