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Quoted: Context is everything. The verse explains itself, but since you asked...
Life as you know it now including your body is temporary.
What you do now has permanent effects on your future in eternity.
Chapter 18 starts off with the disciples asking who gets to be big shots in heaven.
Jesus puts a kid in his lap and tells them, if you have ambitions, follows this little guys example.
-and, being nice to him is being nice to me.
-and, messing with or hurting one of these kids is bad; so bad that you'd be better off sleeping with the fishes.
Now, bad things are going to happen in this world but if you are the one who makes them happen, especially to a kid like this, then you are in for it. That means I'm gonna brimstone your sorry backside when it comes time to settle accounts. So if you are in the habit of beating on kids, or kicking them around, you're better off losing the tool. Capische?
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The Bible according to a capo?
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Since some don't have bibles and I don't want them to think I'm pulling this out of my hat I will post the text from the New King James translation pulled from
bible.gospelcom.net/cgi-bin/bible?language=english&passage=matthew+18%3A+1-9&version=NKJV1 At that time the disciples came to Jesus, saying, "Who then is greatest in the kingdom of heaven?"
2Then Jesus called a little child to Him, set him in the midst of them, 3and said, "Assuredly, I say to you, unless you are converted and become as little children, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven. 4Therefore whoever humbles himself as this little child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. 5Whoever receives one little child like this in My name receives Me.
Jesus Warns of Offenses
6 "Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to sin, it would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were drowned in the depth of the sea. 7Woe to the world because of offenses! For offenses must come, but woe to that man by whom the offense comes!
8"If your hand or foot causes you to sin, cut it off and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life lame or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet, to be cast into the everlasting fire. 9And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes, to be cast into hell fire.