Mark 9:49

You know how you put a little bit of salt on your food, well just like that, God sends little bits of trouble to people. And those troubles are like small fires.

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In The King James Version

For every one shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt.

In Context

48People that go to hell will feel like they are being eaten by worms that never die. And they will feel like their bodies are being burnt by a fire that never goes out.

50And listen to this other story about salt. You know how you put salt on your food to make your food taste better? I tell you, if salt loses its salty taste, it is useless and you cannot make it good again. Think about this. You have to be like good salt for everybody. Yes, be like that salt so that you can all live quietly together.”

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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 →

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