Mark 9:25-50 ▼

25 When Jesus saw that a crowd came running together, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to him, |You deaf and mute spirit, I command you, come out of him, and never enter him again.|

26 Having screamed, and convulsed greatly, it came out of him. The boy became like one dead; so much that most of them said, |He is dead.|

27 But Jesus took him by the hand, and raised him up; and he arose.

28 And when he had come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, |Why could we not cast it out?|

29 And he said to them, |This kind cannot come out by anything but prayer and fasting.|

30 They went out from there, and passed through Galilee. He did not want anyone to know it.

31 For he was teaching his disciples, and said to them, |The Son of Man is being handed over to the hands of men, and they will kill him; and when he is killed, after three days he will rise again.|

32 But they did not understand the saying, and were afraid to ask him.

33 He came to Capernaum, and when he was in the house he asked them, |What were you arguing on the way?|

34 But they were silent, for they had disputed one with another on the way about who was the greatest.

35 And he sat down, and called the twelve; and he said to them, |If anyone wants to be first, he must be last of all, and servant of all.|

36 He took a little child, and set him in the midst of them. Taking him in his arms, he said to them,

37 |Whoever receives one such little child in my name, receives me, and whoever receives me, does not receive me, but him who sent me.|

38 John said to him, |Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in your name; and we forbade him, because he was not following us.|

39 But Jesus said, |Do not forbid him, for there is no one who will do a mighty work in my name, and be able quickly to speak evil of me.

40 For whoever is not against us is for us.

41 For whoever will give you a cup of water to drink in my name, because you belong to the Christ, truly I tell you, he will in no way lose his reward.

42 Whoever will cause one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him if he was thrown into the sea with a millstone hung around his neck.

43 If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off.[note: idiom meaning to stop doing a sin] It is better for you to enter into life maimed, rather than having your two hands to go into hell, into the unquenchable fire,

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45 If your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off.[note: idiom meaning to stop doing a sin] It is better for you to enter into life lame, rather than having your two feet to be cast into hell.

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47 If your eye causes you to stumble, cast it out.[note: idiom meaning to stop doing a sin] It is better for you to enter into the Kingdom of God with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into hell,

48 'where their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched.'

49 For everyone will be salted with fire, and every sacrifice will be salted with salt.

50 Salt is good, but if the salt has lost its saltiness, how can you make it salty? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.|