Mark 9:50
Salt is good, but if the salt loses its saltiness, with what will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.”
Family 35 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
49“Further, everyone will be seasoned with fire, and every sacrifice will be seasoned with salt.
Cross References
Mark 9:34But they kept silent, because on the road they had debated among themselves who was greater.
John 13:34“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another just as I have loved you —that you also love one another.
Romans 12:18If possible, what depends on you, live at peace with everyone.
2 Corinthians 13:11Finally, brothers, rejoice; restore each other; encourage one another; be of one mind; live in peace; and the God of the love and the 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 →