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49 Everyone must be salted with fire.[a]

50 (A) Salt is good. But if it no longer tastes like salt, how can it be made salty again? Have salt among you and live at peace with each other.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 9.49 salted with fire: Some manuscripts add “and every sacrifice will be seasoned with salt.” The verse may mean that Christ's followers must suffer because of their faith.
  2. 9.50 Have salt among you and live at peace with each other: This may mean that when Christ's followers have to suffer because of their faith, they must still try to live at peace with each other.

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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