Mark 9:49
New International Version
Everyone will be salted with fire.

New Living Translation
“For everyone will be tested with fire.

English Standard Version
For everyone will be salted with fire.

Berean Standard Bible
For everyone will be salted with fire.

Berean Literal Bible
For everyone will be salted with fire.

King James Bible
For every one shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt.

New King James Version
“For everyone will be seasoned with fire, and every sacrifice will be seasoned with salt.

New American Standard Bible
For everyone will be salted with fire.

NASB 1995
“For everyone will be salted with fire.

NASB 1977
“For everyone will be salted with fire.

Legacy Standard Bible
“For everyone will be salted with fire.

Amplified Bible
“For everyone will be salted with fire.

Christian Standard Bible
For everyone will be salted with fire.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
For everyone will be salted with fire.

American Standard Version
For every one shall be salted with fire.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
“For everything will be seasoned with fire and every sacrifice will be seasoned with salt.”

Contemporary English Version
Everyone must be salted with fire.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For every one shall be salted with fire: and every victim shall be salted with salt.

English Revised Version
For every one shall be salted with fire.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Everyone will be salted with fire.

Good News Translation
"Everyone will be purified by fire as a sacrifice is purified by salt.

International Standard Version
Because everyone will be salted with fire, and every sacrifice will be salted with salt.

Literal Standard Version
for everyone will be salted with fire, and every sacrifice will be salted with salt.

Majority Standard Bible
For everyone will be salted with fire, and every sacrifice will be salted with salt.

New American Bible
“Everyone will be salted with fire.

NET Bible
Everyone will be salted with fire.

New Revised Standard Version
“For everyone will be salted with fire.

New Heart English Bible
For everyone will be salted with fire, and every sacrifice will be salted with salt.

Webster's Bible Translation
For every one shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt.

Weymouth New Testament
Every one, however, will be salted with fire.

World English Bible
For everyone will be salted with fire, and every sacrifice will be seasoned with salt.

Young's Literal Translation
for every one with fire shall be salted, and every sacrifice with salt shall be salted.

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Context
Temptations and Trespasses
48where ‘their worm never dies, and the fire is never quenched.’ 49For everyone will be salted with fire. 50Salt is good, but if the salt loses its saltiness, with what will you season it? Have salt among yourselves, and be at peace with one another.”…

Cross References
Ezekiel 43:24
You must present them before the LORD; the priests are to sprinkle salt on them and sacrifice them as a burnt offering to the LORD.

Matthew 5:13
You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its savor, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled by men.

Mark 9:48
where 'their worm never dies, and the fire is never quenched.'

Mark 9:50
Salt is good, but if the salt loses its saltiness, with what will you season it? Have salt among yourselves, and be at peace with one another."


Treasury of Scripture

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

and every.

Leviticus 2:13
And every oblation of thy meat offering shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meat offering: with all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt.

Ezekiel 43:24
And thou shalt offer them before the LORD, and the priests shall cast salt upon them, and they shall offer them up for a burnt offering unto the LORD.

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Mark 9
1. Jesus is transfigured.
11. He instructs his disciples concerning the coming of Elijah;
14. casts forth a deaf and mute spirit;
30. foretells his death and resurrection;
33. exhorts his disciples to humility;
38. bidding them not to prohibit such as are not against them,
42. nor to give offense to any of the faithful.














(49) Every one shall be salted with fire.--The verse presents considerable difficulties, both as regards the reading and the interpretation. Many of the best MSS. omit the latter clause; one of the best omits the first. It is as if transcribers felt that either clause was more intelligible by itself than the two taken together. Accepting both clauses as, on the whole, sufficiently authenticated, we have to deal with their meaning. (1) The most generally received interpretation of the first clause is that which eliminates from the process of salting the idea of purifying, or preserving from corruption, and sees in it only the symbol of perpetuation. So taken, the words become an emphatic assertion of the endlessness of future punishment--as in Keble's lines:

"Salted with fire, they seem to show

How spirits lost in endless woe

May undecaying live."

Against this, however, it may be urged (a) that it arbitrarily limits the "every one" of the sentence to those who are finally condemned and are cast into Gehenna; (b) that it is scarcely conceivable that the same word, "salted," should be used in such contrasted senses in the same verse; (c) that the uniform symbolism of "salt," as representing the spiritual element that purifies and preserves from taint (see Matthew 5:13; Luke 14:34; Colossians 4:6; Leviticus 2:13), is against this application of it. We have to ask whether "fire" appears with a like symbolism and with an application as universal as that of this verse. And the answer is found partly in "the baptism with the Holy Ghost and with fire," of which the Baptist spoke (Matthew 3:11); the "fire already kindled" of our Lord's teaching (Luke 12:49); the "fire" which "shall try every man's work of what sort it is" of 1Corinthians 3:13; the "fire that tries men's faith" of 1Peter 1:7. In these passages there can be no shadow of doubt that "fire" represents the righteousness of God manifested as punishing and chastising--the discipline, in other words, of suffering. Of that discipline, our Lord says "every one" shall be a partaker. He shall thus be "salted with fire," for the tendency of that fire, the aim of the sufferings which it represents, is to purify and cleanse. Even when manifested in its most awful forms, it is still true that they who "walk righteously and speak uprightly" may dwell with "everlasting burnings"--i.e., with the perfect and consuming holiness of God (Isaiah 33:14). (2) The second clause is obviously far simpler. The "sacrifice" throws us back upon the ritual of Leviticus 2:13, which prescribed that salt should be added, as the natural symbol of incorruption, to every sacrifice. Here our Lord speaks of the spiritual sacrifice which each man offers of his body, soul, and spirit (Romans 12:1), and declares that "salt," the purifying grace of the Eternal Spirit, is needed that it may be acceptable. Punishment, the pain which we feel when brought into contact with the infinite Righteousness represented by fire, may do its work in part; but it requires something more for completeness. The sacrifice must be "salted with salt," as well as with "fire." To use another figure, there must be the baptism of the Holy Ghost, as well as that of fire (Matthew 3:11). . . .

Verse 49. - For every one shall be salted with fire; and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt. According to the most approved authorities, the second clause of this verse should be omitted, although it is evident that our Lord had in his mind the words in Leviticus it. 13, "Every oblation of thy meat offering shalt thou season with salt." Every one shall be salted with fire. "Every one." The statement is general in its application. There is no limitation. The good and the evil alike shall be "salted with fire." There is an apparent incongruity here. But it must be remembered that both the salt and the fire are here used in a metaphorical sense; and there is a fire which is penal, and there is a fire which purifies. In the case of the wicked the fire is penal; and the salting with fire in their case can only mean the anguish of a tormented conscience, which must be commensurate with its existence in the same moral condition. But there is a fire which purifies. St. Peter, addressing the Christians of the Dispersion (1 Peter 4:12), bids them not to think it strange concerning the "fiery trial" which was among them. This was their "salting with fire." Those persecutions which they suffered were their discipline of affliction, through which God was purifying and preserving them. This discipline is necessary for all Christians. They must arm themselves with the same mind, even though they may not live in a time of outward persecution. He who parts with the hand, or the foot, or the eye; that is, he who surrenders what is dear to him - he who parts with what, if he was only to confer with flesh and blood, he would rather keep, for the sake of Christ, is going through the discipline of self-sacrifice, which is often painful and severe, but nevertheless purifying. He is salted with fire; but he is pro-served by the power of God through faith unto salvation.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
For
γὰρ (gar)
Conjunction
Strong's 1063: For. A primary particle; properly, assigning a reason.

everyone
Πᾶς (Pas)
Adjective - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3956: All, the whole, every kind of. Including all the forms of declension; apparently a primary word; all, any, every, the whole.

will be salted
ἁλισθήσεται (halisthēsetai)
Verb - Future Indicative Passive - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 233: From hals; to salt.

with fire.
πυρὶ (pyri)
Noun - Dative Neuter Singular
Strong's 4442: Fire; the heat of the sun, lightning; fig: strife, trials; the eternal fire. A primary word; 'fire'.


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