50 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.
Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer each one.
If it be possible, as much as in you lieth, be at peace with all men.
Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost its savor, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out and trodden under foot of men.
Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man shall see the Lord:
Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for edifying as the need may be, that it may give grace to them that hear.
Salt therefore is good: but if even the salt have lost its savor, wherewith shall it be seasoned? It is fit neither for the land nor for the dunghill: `men' cast it out. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.
after righteousness, faith, love, pace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
Finally, `be' ye all likeminded, compassionate, loving as brethren, tenderhearted, humbleminded:
But if ye have bitter jealousy and faction in your heart, glory not and lie not against the truth. This wisdom is not `a wisdom' that cometh down from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. For where jealousy and faction are, there is confusion and every vile deed. But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without variance, without hypocrisy. And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace for them that make peace.
for the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
Depart from evil, and do good; Seek peace, and pursue it.
If there is therefore any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassions, make full my joy, that ye be of the same mind, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind; `doing' nothing through faction or through vainglory, but in lowliness of mind each counting other better than himself;
Only let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel of Christ: that, whether I come and see you and be absent, I may hear of your state, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the gospel;
with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love; giving diligence to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. `There is' one body, and one Spirit, even as also ye were called in one hope of your calling; one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is over all, and through all, and in all.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. For he that herein serveth Christ is well-pleasing to God, and approved of men. So then let us follow after things which make for peace, and things whereby we may edify one another.
These things I command you, that ye may love one another. If the world hateth you, ye know that it hath hated me before `it hated' you.
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Commentary on Mark 9 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 9
In this chapter, we have,
Mar 9:1-13
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Mar 9:14-29
We have here the story of Christ casting the devil out of a child, somewhat more fully related than it was in Mt. 17:14, etc. Observe here,
Mar 9:30-40
Here,
Mar 9:41-50
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The two last verses are somewhat difficult, and interpreters agree not in the sense of them; for every one in general, or rather every one of them that are cast into hell, shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt. Therefore have salt in yourselves.