Mark 9:50
The salt [is] good, but if the salt may become saltless, in what will you season [it]? Have in yourselves salt, and have peace in one another.”
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In The King James Version
In Context
49for everyone will be salted with fire, and every sacrifice will be salted with salt.
Cross References
Job 6:6Is an insipid thing eaten without salt? Is there sense in the drivel of dreams?
Psalms 133:1A SONG OF THE ASCENTS. BY DAVID. Behold, how good and how pleasant || The dwelling of brothers—even together!
Mark 9:34And they were silent, for they reasoned with one another in the way who is greater;
John 13:34A new command I give to you, that you love one another; according as I loved you, that you also love one another;
Romans 12:18If possible—so far as in you—with all men being in peace;
2 Corinthians 13:11From now on, brothers, rejoice; be made perfect, be comforted, be of the same mind, 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 →