Mark 9:50
Salt is good; but if the taste goes from it, how will you make it salt again? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace one with another.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
In Context
49Everyone will be salted with fire.
Cross References
Job 6:6Will a man take food which has no taste without salt? or is there any taste in the soft substance of purslain?
Psalms 133:1A Song of the going up. Of David. See how good and how pleasing it is for brothers to be living together in harmony!
Mark 9:34But they said nothing: because they had had an argument between themselves on the way, about who was the greatest.
John 13:34I give you a new law: Have love one for another; even as I have had love for you, so are you to have love one for another.
Romans 12:18As far as it is possible for you be at peace with all men.
2 Corinthians 13:11Let this be my last word, brothers; be glad; be complete; be comforted; be of the same mind; be at peace with one another: and the God of love and peace will be with you.
Matthew Henry on Mark 9:42-50
Pain to Be Preferred to Sin. 41 For whosoever shall give you a cup of water to drink in my name, because ye belong to Christ, verily I say unto you, he shall not lose his reward. 42 And whosoever shall offend one of these little ones that believe in me, it is better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea. 43 And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be… Read the whole commentary →