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

50 “Salt is good. But if it loses its salty taste, you can’t make it good again. So, don’t lose that good quality of salt you have. And live in peace with each other.”

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Footnotes

  1. 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.

49 Everyone will be salted(A) with fire.

50 “Salt is good, but if it loses its saltiness, how can you make it salty again?(B) Have salt among yourselves,(C) and be at peace with each other.”(D)

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