Mark 9:47-49

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⁴⁷If your eye makes you sin, take it out. It is better for you to have only one eye and enter God’s kingdom than to have two eyes and be thrown into hell. ⁴⁸The worms that eat the people in hell never die. The fire there is never stopped.

⁴⁹“Everyone will be salted with fire.^[a]

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Footnotes

Mark 9:49 Some Greek copies add, “and every sacrifice will be salted with salt.” In the Old Testament salt was put on sacrifices. This verse could mean that Jesus’ followers will be tested by suffering and that they must offer themselves to God as sacrifices.