Mark 9:47-50

Disciples’ Literal New Testament

⁴⁷And if your eye should be causing you to fall, throw it out. It is better that you enter into the kingdom of God one-eyed than be thrown into Gehenna having two eyes— ⁴⁸where their worm^[a] does not come-to-an-end, and the fire is not quenched. ⁴⁹For everyone will be salted with fire.

Have Salt In Yourselves, And Live In Peace

⁵⁰“Salt is good. But if the salt should become unsalty, with what will you season it? Be having salt^[b] in yourselves, and be living-in-peace with one another”.

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Footnotes

Mark 9:48 That is, the maggots eating their flesh never die. Jesus is quoting Is 66:24.
Mark 9:50 Returning to the main point, be salt to those around you by being servants of all. Don’t lose your saltiness by focusing on who is greater.

Disciples’ Literal New Testament (DLNT)

Disciples' Literal New Testament: Serving Modern Disciples by More Fully Reflecting the Writing Style of the Ancient Disciples, Copyright © 2011 Michael J. Magill. All Rights Reserved. Published by Reyma Publishing