Mark 9:50
Good is salt: but if the salt shall (become) insipid, how shall it be salted? Let there be in you salt, and in peace be one with another.
The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge
In The King James Version
In Context
49For every (thing) with fire is salted, and every victim with salt shall be salted.
Cross References
Mark 9:34But they were silent: for they had contended in the way one with another, who should be greatest among them.
John 13:34A new commandment give I to you, that you should love one another; as I have loved you, so do you also love one another.
Romans 12:18And if possible, as much as is in you, with all men make peace.
2 Corinthians 13:11Wherefore, my brethren, rejoice, and be perfect, and be comforted, and let agreement and peace be among you; and the God of love and of peace shall 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 →