Mark 9:49 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

⁴⁹ For everyone will be salted with fire. [Note: This meant either the suffering “salt” of fiery trials (the sacrifices of verses 43-47) or the punishing “salt” of being thrown into a fiery hell (verse 45-48)]..

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴⁹ For everyone shall be salted with fire.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴⁹ For every one shall be salted with fire.

Common English Bible

⁴⁹ Everyone will be salted with fire.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴⁹ Salt is good: but if the salt has become bland, with what will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace among yourselves."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴⁹ Salt is good. But if the salt became unsavory; wherewith will you season it? Have salt in you, and have peace among you.

Mark 9:49 Cross References

Matthew 5:13

“You people are [like] salt on the earth. But if salt loses its flavoring ability, how will it ever get it back again? From then on it would be good for nothing except to be thrown out onto the roadway and walked on by people. [Note: This was mined salt which, when losing its “saltiness” due to exposure to the sun or rain, was simply disposed of by being dumped onto the roadway where people walked].

Mark 9:48

For in hell the worm of those who are there will never die [i.e., their gnawing punishment will never cease] and the fire [there] will never go out.

Mark 9:50

“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].”