In Matthew 5:29-30, what is warned to be cast into hell?

• A. Body
• B. Eye
• C. Soul
• D. Hand

Answer: (A)

This passage teaches radical practical discipline to avoid sin, using vivid imagery to press the point that decisive removal of sin-causing influences is necessary.

Jesus speaks of plucking out an offending eye and cutting off an offending hand, then casting those parts away from you. The idea isn’t to promote bodily harm, but to highlight how serious it is to remove anything that leads you into sin. It’s better to endure life with less (one eye or one hand) than to preserve what causes you to stumble and be condemned to hell fire. The thing that is warned to be cast away, in the sense of avoiding ruin, are the eye and the hand—symbols of seeing and doing what’s wrong. The body as a whole or the soul is not singled out in this instruction; the focus is on removing the specific actions and faculties that lead to sin.