Mark 9:50

Melach is tov, but if the melach becomes unsalty, by what [means] will you make it salty again? Have melach in yourselves. And among yourselves let there be shalom.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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

49For everyone will have eish as his melach (salt). + 9:49 Lv 2:13

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Cross References

Job 6:6Can that which is tasteless be eaten without melach? 1 Or is there any taste in the white of an egg? 1

Psalms 133:1(Shir HaMa'alot, of Dovid) 1 (how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity)! 1

Mark 9:34But they were keeping silent, for baderech they were discussing with one another which of the talmidim was hagadol.

John 13:34A mitzvah chadasha I give to you, that you have ahavah (agape) one for the other, as I have had ahavah (agape) for you, so also you have ahavah (agape) one for the other. + 13:34 Lv 19:18

Romans 12:18If possible, so far as it depends on you, live in shalom with everyone.

2 Corinthians 13:11For the rest, Achim b'Moshiach, rejoice with simcha. + 13:11 Pp 4:4 Come to order and chazzak (be strong)! Have achdus (unity) in your machshavot (thoughts). Live in shalom. And the G-d of ahavah and shalom will be with you. + 13:11 Ro 15:33

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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