Mark 9:50
48 Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
49 For every one shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt.
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.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Salt is good, but if the salt loses its saltiness, with what will you season it? Have salt among yourselves, and be at peace with one another.”
- KJV
- 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.
- WEB
- Salt is good, but if the salt has lost its saltiness, with what will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.”
- ASV
- Salt is good: but if the salt have lost its saltness, wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace one with another.
- DARBY
- Salt [is] good, but if the salt is become saltless, wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.
- BLB
- The salt [is] good, but if the salt should become unsalty, with what will you⁺ season it? Have salt among yourselves, and be at peace with one another.”
- ÅB
- Salt er en god ting; men når saltet mister sin kraft, hva vil dere da salte det med? Ha salt i dere selv, og hold fred med hverandre!
- OTB
- Salt er godt, men hvis det mister sin salthet, hvordan kan det bli salt igjen? Ha salt i dere selv, og vær i fred med hverandre.»
- B1930
- Salt er en god ting; men når saltet mister sin kraft, hvad vil I da salte det med? Ha salt i eder selv, og hold fred med hverandre!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Colossians 4:6
Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
Read in contextRomans 12:18
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
Read in contextMatthew 5:13
Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.
Read in context2 Corinthians 13:11
Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.
Read in contextHebrews 12:14
Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:
Read in contextPhilippians 1:27
Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;
Read in contextLuke 14:34–35
Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned?
Read in contextEphesians 4:29
Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
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