Mark 9:38-50

Dire Warnings

38 ¹John said to Him, "Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name, and ²we tried to prevent him because he was not following us."

39 But Jesus said, "Do not hinder him, for there is no one who will perform a miracle in My name, and be able soon afterward to speak evil of Me.

40 "³For he who is not against us is for us.

41 "For ⁴whoever * gives you a cup of water to drink because of your name as followers of Christ, truly I say to you, he will not lose his reward.

42 "⁵Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe to stumble, it would be better * for him if, with a heavy millstone hung around his neck, he had been cast into the sea.

43 "⁶If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off; it is better for you to enter life crippled, than, having your two hands, to go into ⁷hell, into the ⁸unquenchable fire,

44 [ where THEIR WORM DOES NOT DIE, AND THE FIRE IS NOT QUENCHED.]

45 "If your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off; it is better for you to enter life lame, than, having your two feet, to be cast into ⁹hell,

46 [ where THEIR WORM DOES NOT DIE, AND THE FIRE IS NOT QUENCHED.]

47 "¹⁰If your eye causes you to stumble, throw it out; it is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye, than, having two eyes, to be cast into ¹¹hell,

48 ¹²where THEIR WORM DOES NOT DIE, AND ¹³THE FIRE IS NOT QUENCHED.

49 "For everyone will be salted with fire.

50 "Salt is good; but ¹⁴if the salt becomes unsalty, with what will you make it salty again? ¹⁵Have salt in yourselves, and ¹⁶be at peace with one another."

Cross References

• 1. Mark 9:38-40: {Luke 9:49, 50}
• 2. Numbers 11:27-29
• 3. Matthew 12:30; Luke 11:23
• 4. Matthew 10:42
• 5. Matthew 18:6; Luke 17:2; 1 Corinthians 8:12
• 6. Matthew 5:30; Matthew 18:8
• 7. Matthew 5:22
• 8. Matthew 3:12; Matthew 25:41
• 9. Matthew 5:22
• 10. Matthew 5:29; Matthew 18:9
• 11. Matthew 5:22
• 12. Isaiah 66:24
• 13. Matthew 3:12; Matthew 25:41
• 14. Matthew 5:13; Luke 14:34
• 15. Colossians 4:6
• 16. Mark 9:34; Romans 12:18; 2 Corinthians 13:11; 1 Thessalonians 5:13

Footnotes

• [a]. Or "on our side"
• [b]. Lit "in a name that you are Christ's"
• [c]. I.e. humble
• [d]. Lit "is better for him if a millstone turned by a donkey is hung"
• [e]. Lit "has been thrown"
• [f]. Gr "Gehenna"
• [g]. Vv 44 and 46, which are identical to v 48, are not found in the early mss
• [h]. Gr "Gehenna"
• [i]. See v 44, note
• [j]. Gr "Gehenna"
• [k]. Lit "season it"