Matthew 18:9 - And if your eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into the fire of hell.
Now this is not a verse to take literally but there is a great principle that we can draw from this. What Jesus is trying to get across is that sin is a very serious matter and we would be better to experience life without our eyes then to spend eternity in hell with our eyes. It is important to understand that when something causes you to stumble you must get rid of it! So many times we think that we will be "good" and ignore the temptation, but nice times out of ten this doesn't work. See the things we may need to gouge out of our life can be certain friends, movies, music, and much more. The thing is if something causes you to sin GET RID OF IT because it will pull you away from God as sin is what separates us from him and it would be far better to miss out on a few worldly things then to miss out on eternal life!
Simply choose whom you will serve the world or God. Get rid of the other!
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