Mark 9:50

Salt is good; if salt be unsavoury, in what thing shall ye make it savoury? Have ye salt among you, and have ye peace among you.

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

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

49And every man shall be salted with fire, and every slain sacrifice shall be made savoury with salt. [+Forsooth every man shall be made savoury with fire, and every slain sacrifice shall be salted with salt.]

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Cross References

Job 6:6Either whether a thing unsavory may be eaten, which is not made savory by salt? (Or can an unsavory thing be eaten, which is not first made savory with salt?) Either whether any man may taste a thing, which (once) tasted bringeth death? For why to an hungry soul, yea, bitter things seem to be sweet;

Psalms 133:1The song of degrees. Lo! how good and how merry it is; that brethren dwell together. ( A song for steps of ascending. Behold! how good and how pleasant it is; for brothers, or for God’s people, to live together in unity, or in harmony.)

Mark 9:34And they were still; for they disputed among them [selves] in the way, who of them should be [the] greatest. (And they were silent; for they had argued among themselves on the way, who of them was the greatest.)

John 13:34I give to you a new commandment, that ye love together, as I have loved you, and that ye love together. (I give you a new commandment, that ye love one another, as I have loved you, yea, that ye love one another.)

Romans 12:18If it may be done, that that is of you, have ye peace with all men.

2 Corinthians 13:11Brethren (or Brothers), henceforward joy ye, be ye perfect, excite ye [or and teach ye]; understand ye the same thing; have ye peace, and (the) God of peace and of love 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 →

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