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The Simile of Salt. 49 [a]“Everyone will be salted with fire. 50 Salt is good, but if salt becomes insipid, with what will you restore its flavor? Keep salt in yourselves and you will have peace with one another.”(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 9:49 Everyone will be salted with fire: so the better manuscripts. Some add “every sacrifice will be salted with salt.” The purifying and preservative use of salt in food (Lv 2:13) and the refinement effected through fire refer here to comparable effects in the spiritual life of the disciples of Jesus.

49 For every one shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt.

50 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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Tasteless Salt Is Worthless

49 “For everyone will be (A)seasoned with fire, (B)and[a] every sacrifice will be seasoned with salt. 50 (C)Salt is good, but if the salt loses its flavor, how will you season it? (D)Have salt in yourselves, and (E)have peace with one another.”

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 9:49 NU omits the rest of v. 49.