Mark 9:50

Salt is a good thing, but if the salt should become tasteless, what will you use to give it saltness? Have salt within you and live at peace with one another."

Weymouth NT (1912)

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

49Every one, however, will be salted with fire.

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Cross References

Mark 9:34But they remained silent; for on the way they had debated with one another who was the chief of them.

John 13:34A new commandment I give you, to love one another; that as I have loved you, you also may love one another.

Romans 12:18If you can, so far as it depends on you, live at peace with all the world.

2 Corinthians 13:11Finally, brethren, be joyful, secure perfection of character, take courage, be of one mind, live in peace. And then God who gives 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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