Mark 9:50

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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.

📖 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

Referenced Verses

• Rom 12:18 : 18 If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
• Col 4:6 : 6 Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
• Matt 5:13 : 13 Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.
• 2 Cor 13:11 : 11 Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.
• Heb 12:14 : 14 Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:
• 1 Thess 5:13 : 13 And to esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake. And be at peace among yourselves.
• Eph 4:29 : 29 Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
• Job 6:6 : 6 Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
• Luke 14:34-35 : 34 Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned? 35 It is neither fit for the land, nor yet for the dunghill; but 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; 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 love one another. 18 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.
• Rom 14:17-19 : 17 For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. 18 For he that in these things serveth Christ is acceptable to God, and approved of men. 19 Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another.
• Ps 34:14 : 14 Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.
• Ps 133:1 : 1 A Song of degrees 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 by the way they had disputed among themselves, who should be the greatest.
• Eph 4:31-32 : 31 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: 32 And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.
• Phil 1:27 : 27 Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;
• Phil 2:1-3 : 1 If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies, 2 Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind. 3 Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
• Col 3:12 : 12 Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;
• Gal 5:14-15 : 14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour 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, gentleness, goodness, faith,
• Eph 4:2-6 : 2 With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love; 3 Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. 4 There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; 5 One Lord, one faith, one baptism, 6 One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.
• 2 Tim 2:22 : 22 Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, 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 envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. 15 This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. 16 For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. 17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. 18 And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.
• 1 Pet 3:8 : 8 Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous: