Mark 9:50

Salt is good, but if it loses its taste, how could you make it salty again? You need to be like salt, and live in peace with one another.”

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In The King James Version

Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his saltness, wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another.

In Context

49Everybody will be ‘salted’ by fire.

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Cross References

Job 6:6Can something that's tasteless be eaten without salt? Is there any taste in the white of an egg?

Psalms 133:1How good, how delightful it is when people live together lin harmony!

Mark 9:34But they didn't say anything because they had been arguing over who was the most important.

John 13:34I am giving you a new command: Love one another. Love one another in the same way I have loved you.

Romans 12:18and as far as it's up to you, live at peace with everyone.

2 Corinthians 13:11Finally, brothers and sisters, I say goodbye. Continue to improve spiritually. Encourage one another. Be in agreement. Live in 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 →

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