Mark 9:50

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Καλὸν τὸ ἅλας: ἐὰν δὲ τὸ ἅλας ἄναλον γένηται, ἐν τίνι αὐτὸ ἀρτύσετε; Ἔχετε ἐν ἑαυτοῖς ἅλας, καὶ εἰρηνεύετε ἐν ἀλλήλοις.

Transliteration

Kalon the halas: if de the halas analon genētai, in what it artyséte? Echete in yourselves halas, and eirēneuete in allēlois.

Grammar Details

*Kalon*: nominative, neuter, singular - good
*halas*: nominative, neuter, singular - salt
*de*: postpositive conjunction - but/and/now
*analon*: nominative, neuter, singular - saltless/unsalty
*genētai*: aorist subjunctive, middle, 3rd singular - becomes/might become
*artyséte*: future indicative, active, 2nd plural - will season/restore
*Echete*: present imperative, active, 2nd plural - have/keep
*eirēneuete*: present imperative, active, 2nd plural - be at peace
*allēlois*: dative, masculine, plural - one another

Word Meanings

*Kalon*: good/beneficial/useful
*halas*: salt/seasoning/preservative
*de*: but/and/now
*analon*: saltless/unsalty/tasteless
*genētai*: becomes/might become/turns
*artyséte*: will season/flavor/restore
*Echete*: have/keep/maintain
*eirēneuete*: be at peace/live in peace/have peace
*allēlois*: one another/each other

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Referenced Verses

Rom 12:18 : 18 If it be possible, as much as in you lieth, be at peace with all men.
Col 4:6 : 6 Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer each one.
Matt 5:13 : 13 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.
2 Cor 13:11 : 11 Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfected; be comforted; be of the same mind; live in peace: and the God of love and peace shall be with you.
Heb 12:14 : 14 Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man shall see the Lord:
1 Thess 5:13 : 13 and to esteem them exceeding highly in love for their work's sake. Be at peace among yourselves.
Eph 4:29 : 29 Let {G3956} 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.
Job 6:6 : 6 Can that which hath no savor be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
Luke 14:34-35 : 34 Salt therefore is good: but if even the salt have lost its savor, wherewith {G1722} shall it be seasoned? 35 It is fit neither for the land nor for the dunghill: [men] cast it out. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.
John 13:34-35 : 34 A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another; even as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. 35 By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.
John 15:17-18 : 17 These things I command you, that ye may love one another. 18 If the world hateth you, ye know that it hath hated me before [it hated] you.
Rom 14:17-19 : 17 for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. 18 For he that herein {G5125} serveth Christ is well-pleasing to God, and approved of men. 19 So then let us follow after things which make for peace, and things whereby we may edify one another.
Ps 34:14 : 14 Depart from evil, and do good; Seek peace, and pursue it.
Ps 133:1 : 1 A Song of Ascents; of David. Behold, how good and how pleasant it is For brethren to dwell together in unity!
Mark 9:34 : 34 But they held their peace: for they had disputed one with another on the way, who [was] the greatest.
Eph 4:31-32 : 31 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and railing, be put away from you, with all malice: 32 and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, even as God also in Christ forgave you.
Phil 1:27 : 27 Only let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel of Christ: that, whether I come and see you or 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;
Phil 2:1-3 : 1 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, 2 make full my joy, that ye be of the same mind, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind; 3 [ doing] nothing through faction or through vainglory, but in lowliness of mind {G2233} each counting other better than himself;
Col 3:12 : 12 Put on therefore, as God's elect, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, longsuffering;
Gal 5:14-15 : 14 For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, [even] in this: Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. 15 But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.
Gal 5:22 : 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
Eph 4:2-6 : 2 with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love; 3 giving diligence to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. 4 [ There is] one body, and one Spirit, even as also ye were called in one hope of your calling; 5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism, 6 one God and Father of all, who is over all, and through all, and in {G5213} all.
2 Tim 2:22 : 22 But flee youthful lusts, and follow after righteousness, faith, love, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
Jas 1:20 : 20 for the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
Jas 3:14-18 : 14 But if ye have bitter jealousy and faction in your heart, glory not and lie not against the truth. 15 This wisdom is not [a wisdom] that cometh down from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. 16 For where jealousy and faction are, there is confusion and every vile deed. 17 But the wisdom that is from above is first {G3303} pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without variance, {G2532} without hypocrisy. 18 And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace for them that make peace.
1 Pet 3:8 : 8 Finally, [be] ye all likeminded, compassionate, loving as brethren, tenderhearted, humbleminded:

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