Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
Salt is good; but if the taste goes from it, how will you make it salt again? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace one with another.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
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.
Holman Bible
International Standard Version
Salt is good. But if salt loses its taste, how can you restore its flavor? Keep on having salt among yourselves, and live in peace with one another."
A Conservative Version
The salt material is good, but if the salt material becomes saltless, by what will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace among each other.
American Standard Version
Salt is good: but if the salt have lost its saltness, wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace one with another.
Amplified
An Understandable Version
"Salt is good, but if it loses its salty flavor, what will you use to restore it? [i.e., it is difficult to restore the "salt" of sacrificial commitment to God once it is lost]. You should have salt in yourselves [i.e., develop the qualities of preserving, purifying commitment to God], and live peacefully with one another [i.e., instead of in rivalry. See 9:33-34].
Anderson New Testament
Salt is good; but if the salt shall have become saltless, by what means will you season it? Have salt in your selves, and be at peace with one another.
Common New Testament
Salt is good, but if the salt loses its flavor, how will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another."
Daniel Mace New Testament
salt is good, but if the salt become insipid, how shall it recover its savour? don't lose your seasoning, nor your peaceable behaviour to one another.
Darby Translation
Salt is good, but if the salt is become saltless, wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.
Godbey New Testament
Salt is good: but if the salt may become savorless, with what will you salt it? Have salt in yourselves, and live in peace with one another.
Goodspeed New Testament
Salt is a good thing, but if salt loses its strength, what will you use to season it? You must have salt within you, and live in peace with one another."
John Wesley New Testament
Salt is good: but if the salt have lost its saltness, wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another.
Julia Smith Translation
Salt good: but if the salt be saltless, with what will ye prepare it? Have salt in yourselves, and live in peace one with another.
King James 2000
Salt is good: but if the salt has lost its saltiness, how will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Salt [is] good, but if the salt becomes deprived of its salt content, by what can you make it salty? Have salt among yourselves, and be at peace with one another."
Modern King James verseion
Salt is good; but if the salt becomes saltless, with what will you season? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Salt is good. But if the salt be unsavoury: what shall ye salt therewith? See that ye have salt in yourselves. And have peace among yourselves, one with another."
Moffatt New Testament
Salt is excellent: but if salt is tasteless, how are you to restore its flavour? Let there be 'salt between you'; be at peace with one another."
Montgomery New Testament
salt is excellent, but if the salt has lost its savor, what will you use to restore its saltness? Then have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another."
NET Bible
Salt is good, but if it loses its saltiness, how can you make it salty again? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with each other."
New Heart English Bible
Salt is good, but if the salt has lost its saltiness, with what will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another."
Noyes New Testament
Salt is good; but if the salt have lost its saltness, wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.
Sawyer New Testament
Salt is good; but if the salt has become insipid, with what will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace one with another.
The Emphasized Bible
Salt is, good: but, if, salt, become, saltless, wherewith will ye, prepare, it? Have, within yourselves, salt, and be at peace, one with another.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Salt is good: but if the salt become insipid, with what will you season it? have salt in yourselves, and live in peace with each other.
Twentieth Century New Testament
Salt is good, but, if the salt should lose its saltiness, what will you use to season it? You must have salt in yourselves, and live at peace with one another."
Webster
Salt is good: but if the salt hath lost its saltness, with what will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another.
Weymouth New Testament
Salt is a good thing, but if the salt should become tasteless, what will you use to give it saltness? Have salt within you and live at peace with one another."
Williams New Testament
You must keep on having salt within you, and keep on living in peace with one another."
World English Bible
Salt is good, but if the salt has lost its saltiness, with what will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another."
Worrell New Testament
Salt is good; but, if the salt becomes saltless, with what will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace one with another."
Worsley New Testament
Salt is useful, but if the salt become insipid, wherewith will ye season it? Have salt therefore in yourselves, and as a proof of it be at peace one with another.
Youngs Literal Translation
The salt is good, but if the salt may become saltless, in what will ye season it? Have in yourselves salt, and have peace in one another.'
Themes
Ecclesiasticism » Jewish, rebuked by jesus
Jesus Christ » History of » Reproves the ambition of his disciples (at capernaum)
Peace » For peace peace invoked » The obligation to preserve peace
Peace » Saints should » Have, with each other
Salt » If salt loses its savor
Salt » Figurative » Of the saving efficacy of the ekklesia of Christ
Salt » Illustrative » (without savor,) of graceless professors
Salt » Lost its savor when exposed to the air
Salt » Illustrative » Of grace in the heart
Salt » Characterized as good and useful
Christians as The salt » The church, like salt, saves by contact
Topics
Interlinear
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heautou
Eireneuo
References
American
Fausets
Hastings
Word Count of 37 Translations in Mark 9:50
Verse Info
Context Readings
Temptations To Sin
49 Everyone will be salted with fire. 50 Salt is good; but if the taste goes from it, how will you make it salt again? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace one with another.
Names
Cross References
Romans 12:18
As far as it is possible for you be at peace with all men.
Matthew 5:13
You are the salt of the earth; but if its taste goes from the salt, how will you make it salt again? it is then good for nothing but to be put out and crushed under foot by men.
2 Corinthians 13:11
Let this be my last word, brothers; be glad; be complete; be comforted; be of the same mind; be at peace with one another: and the God of love and peace will be with you.
Colossians 4:6
Let your talk be with grace, mixed with salt, so that you may be able to give an answer to everyone.
Luke 14:34-35
For salt is good, but if the taste goes from it, of what use is it?
Ephesians 4:29
Let no evil talk come out of your mouth, but only what is good for giving necessary teaching, and for grace to those who give ear.
1 Thessalonians 5:13
And have a high opinion of them in love because of their work. Be at peace among yourselves.
Hebrews 12:14
Let your desire be for peace with all men, and to be made holy, without which no man may see the Lord;
Job 6:6
Will a man take food which has no taste without salt? or is there any taste in the soft substance of purslain?
Psalm 34:14
Be turned from evil, and do good; make a search for peace, desiring it with all your heart.
Psalm 133:1
See how good and how pleasing it is for brothers to be living together in harmony!
Mark 9:34
But they said nothing: because they had had an argument between themselves on the way, about who was the greatest.
John 13:34-35
I give you a new law: Have love one for another; even as I have had love for you, so are you to have love one for another.
John 15:17-18
So this is my law for you: Have love one for another.
Romans 14:17-19
For the kingdom of God is not food and drink, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.
Galatians 5:14-15
For all the law is made complete in one word, even in this, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself.
Galatians 5:22
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, a quiet mind, kind acts, well-doing, faith,
Ephesians 4:2-6
With all gentle and quiet behaviour, taking whatever comes, putting up with one another in love;
Ephesians 4:31-32
Let all bitter, sharp and angry feeling, and noise, and evil words, be put away from you, with all unkind acts;
Philippians 1:27
Only let your behaviour do credit to the good news of Christ, so that if I come and see you or if I am away from you, I may have news of you that you are strong in one spirit, working together with one soul for the faith of the good news;
Philippians 2:1-3
If then there is any comfort in Christ, any help given by love, any uniting of hearts in the Spirit, any loving mercies and pity,
Colossians 3:12
As saints of God, then, holy and dearly loved, let your behaviour be marked by pity and mercy, kind feeling, a low opinion of yourselves, gentle ways, and a power of undergoing all things;
2 Timothy 2:22
But keep yourself from those desires of the flesh which are strong when the body is young, and go after righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those whose prayers go up to the Lord from a clean heart.
James 1:20
For the righteousness of God does not come about by the wrath of man.
James 3:14-18
But if you have bitter envy in your heart and the desire to get the better of others, have no pride in this, talking falsely against what is true.
1 Peter 3:8
Last of all, see that you are all in agreement; feeling for one another, loving one another like brothers, full of pity, without pride: