Parallel Verses
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."
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.
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.
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.
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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Eireneuo
References
American
Fausets
Hastings
Word Count of 37 Translations in Mark 9:50
Verse Info
Context Readings
Temptations To Sin
49 Everyone must be seasoned with fire. 50 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."
Names
Cross References
Romans 12:18
If possible, for your part, live peaceably with everybody.
Matthew 5:13
"You are the salt of the earth! But if salt loses its strength, how can it be made salt again? It is good for nothing but to be thrown away and trodden underfoot.
2 Corinthians 13:11
Now brothers, goodbye! Be what you ought to be, listen to my appeal, agree with one another, live in peace, and God the source of love and peace will be with you.
Colossians 4:6
Always put your message attractively, and yet pointedly, and be prepared to give every inquirer a fitting answer.
Luke 14:34-35
Salt is good; but if salt loses its strength, what can it be seasoned with?
Ephesians 4:29
No bad word must ever pass your lips, but only words that are good and suited to improve the occasion, so that they will be a blessing to those who hear them.
1 Thessalonians 5:13
Hold them in the highest esteem and affection for what they do. Live at peace with one another.
Hebrews 12:14
Try to be at peace with everyone, and strive for that consecration without which no one can see the Lord.
Mark 9:34
But they made no answer, for on the way they had been discussing with one another which of them was the greatest.
John 13:34-35
I give you a new command: Love one another. Just as I have loved you, you must love one another.
John 15:17-18
"What I command you to do is to love one another.
Romans 14:17-19
The Kingdom of God is not a matter of what we eat or drink, but of uprightness, peace, and happiness through the possession of the holy Spirit.
Galatians 5:14-15
For the whole Law is summed up in one saying: "You must love your neighbor as you do yourself."
Galatians 5:22
But what the Spirit produces is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
Ephesians 4:2-6
with perfect humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another lovingly.
Ephesians 4:31-32
You must give up all bitterness, rage, anger, and loud, abusive talk, and all spite.
Philippians 1:27
Whatever happens, show yourselves citizens worthy of the good news of the Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am kept away and only hear news of you, I may know that you are standing firm with one spirit, one purpose, fighting side by side for faith in the good news.
Philippians 2:1-3
So by whatever appeal there is in our relation to Christ, by whatever incentive there is in love, by whatever participation there is in the Spirit, whatever affection and sympathy,
Colossians 3:12
As persons chosen by God, then, consecrated and dearly loved, you must clothe yourselves with tenderness of heart, kindness, humility, gentleness, forbearance.
2 Timothy 2:22
Fly from the cravings of youth, and go in pursuit of uprightness, faith, love, and peace, in company with those who call upon the Lord with pure hearts.
James 1:20
for men's anger does not produce the uprightness God wishes.
James 3:14-18
But if you cherish bitter feelings of jealousy and rivalry in your hearts, do not pride yourselves on it and thus belie the truth.
1 Peter 3:8
Finally, you must all be harmonious, sympathizing, loving, tender-hearted, modest,