Mark 9:50 BSB — MannaFest

Mark 9:50

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.”

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

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.

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.

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Commentary

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Gregory the Dialogist

The Book of Pastoral Rule, Part 2, Chapter 4 (604)

But, when the ruler prepares himself for speaking, let him bear in mind with what studious caution he ought to speak, lest, if he be hurried inordinately into speaking, the hearts of hearers be smitten with the wound of error and, while he perchance desires to seem wise he unwisely sever the bond of unity. For on this account the Truth says, "Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another." Now by salt is denoted the word of wisdom.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

But as salt if it loses its saltness is fit for nothing, so ye, if ye lose your faith and love, are fit for nothing but to be utterly destroyed. See therefore that grace abide in you, and that ye no more contend, Who shall be greatest.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

If the salt have lost his saltness - See on Mat 5:13 (note). Have salt in yourselves - See that ye have at all times the preserving principle of Divine grace in your hearts, and give that proof of it which will satisfy your own minds, and convince or silence the world: live in brotherly kindness and peace with each other: thus shall all men see that you are free from ambition, (see Mar 9:34), and that you are my disciples indeed.

J.C. Ryle

1816–1900

Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Mark (lightly modernized text, Grace Gems edition) (1857)

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Original language & word study

21 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
καλὸν	kalon	Good [is]	G2570 →
τὸ	to	the	G3588 →
ἅλας·	halas	salt;	G217 →
ἐὰν	ean	if	G1437 →
δὲ	de	however	G1161 →
τὸ	to	the	G3588 →
ἅλας	halas	salt	G217 →
ἄναλον	analon	unsalty	G358 →
γένηται,	genētai	may become,	G1096 →
ἐν	en	with	G1722 →
τίνι	tini	what	G5101 →
αὐτὸ	auto	it	G846 →
ἀρτύσετε;	artusete	will you season?	G741 →
ἔχετε	echete	do have	G2192 →
ἐν	en	in	G1722 →
ἑαυτοῖς	he'autois	yourselves	G1438 →
ἅλα	hala	salt	G217 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
εἰρηνεύετε	eirēneuete	do be at peace	G1514 →
ἐν	en	with	G1722 →
ἀλλήλοις.¶	allēlois	one another.	G240 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Matthew 5:13
You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its savor, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and…
leads to
- Colossians 4:6
  Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.
- Luke 14:34–35
  Salt is good, but if the salt loses its savor, with what will it be seasoned?
- Mark 9:49–50
  For everyone will be salted with fire.
- Leviticus 2:13
  And you shall season each of your grain offerings with salt. You must not leave the salt of the covenant of your God out of your grain offering; you are to add salt to…
- Hebrews 6:4–6
  It is impossible for those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, who have shared in the Holy Spirit,
Through
Romans 12:18
If it is possible on your part, live at peace with everyone.
leads to
- Hebrews 12:14
  Pursue peace with everyone, as well as holiness, without which no one will see the Lord.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Through
Colossians 4:6
Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.
leads to
- Ephesians 4:29
  Let no unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building up the one in need and bringing grace to those who listen.
Through
Hebrews 12:14
Pursue peace with everyone, as well as holiness, without which no one will see the Lord.
leads to
- Romans 12:18
  If it is possible on your part, live at peace with everyone.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.