Mark 9:35-44

³⁵And having sat down He called the twelve, and said to them, “If anyone desires to be first, he shall be last of all and servant of all.”

³⁶And taking a child, He stood him in their midst. And taking him in His arms, He said to them,

³⁷“Whoever receives one of these little children in My name receives Me; and whoever receives Me, receives not Me, but Him who sent Me.”

³⁸Now John answered Him, saying, “Teacher, we saw someone who does not follow with us casting out demons in Your name, and we forbade him because he does not follow with us.”

³⁹But Jesus said, “Do not forbid him, for there is no one who will perform a miracle in My name that will be able to soon speak evil of Me.

⁴⁰For he who is not against you is for you.

⁴¹For whoever gives you a cup of water to drink in My name, because you are Christ's, assuredly, I say to you, he will by no means lose his reward.

⁴²“But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him if a millstone were around his neck, and he be cast into the sea.

⁴³If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off. It would be better for you to enter into life maimed, than to enter having two hands, to go into hell, into the fire that shall never be quenched—

⁴⁴where ‘Their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched.’