Mark 9:50
Salt is good, but if the salt becomes unsalty, by what will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.”
English Majority Text (NT)
In The King James Version
In Context
49“For everyone will be salted with fire, and every sacrifice will be seasoned with salt.
Cross References
Mark 9:34But they were silent, for on the road they had discussed with one another who was the greatest.
John 13:34A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; just as I have loved you, that you also love one another.
Romans 12:18If possible, as much as depends on you, keeping peace with all men.
2 Corinthians 13:11Finally brothers, farewell. Restore yourselves, comfort yourselves, be in agreement, be at peace; 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 →