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Chinese NCV (Simplified)

或用在田裡，或放在糞裡，都不合適；只好扔在外面。有耳可聽的，就應當聽。”

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
或 用 在 田 里 ， 或 堆 在 粪 里 ， 都 不 合 式 ， 只 好 丢 在 外 面 。 有 耳 可 听 的 ， 就 应 当 听 ！

Contextual Overview

²⁵ Large crowds were traveling with Jesus, and he turned and said to them, ²⁶ "If anyone comes to me but loves his father, mother, wife, children, brothers, or sisters—or even life—more than me, he cannot be my follower. ²⁷ Whoever is not willing to carry his cross and follow me cannot be my follower. ²⁸ If you want to build a tower, you first sit down and decide how much it will cost, to see if you have enough money to finish the job. ²⁹ If you don't, you might lay the foundation, but you would not be able to finish. Then all who would see it would make fun of you, ³⁰ saying, ‘This person began to build but was not able to finish.' ³¹ "If a king is going to fight another king, first he will sit down and plan. He will decide if he and his ten thousand soldiers can defeat the other king who has twenty thousand soldiers. ³² If he can't, then while the other king is still far away, he will send some people to speak to him and ask for peace. ³³ In the same way, you must give up everything you have to be my follower. ³⁴ "Salt is good, but if it loses its salty taste, you cannot make it salty again.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

but: John 15:6

He: Luke 8:8, Luke 9:44, Matthew 11:15, Matthew 13:9, Revelation 2:7, Revelation 2:11, Revelation 2:17, Revelation 2:29

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 29:23 - salt 1 Kings 14:10 - as a man taketh Jeremiah 13:7 - it was Ezekiel 15:3 - General Malachi 2:3 - spread Matthew 5:13 - if Matthew 25:30 - cast Mark 9:50 - is good

Gill's Notes on the Bible

It is neither fit for the land,.... For the manuring of it, when it has lost its savour and spirit; otherwise it makes land fruitful, if too much is not used, and especially fixed salts have this use; though Pliny says o,

"every place in which salt is found, it is barren and brings forth nothing.''

Nor yet for the dunghill; to mix with dung, and help it, that it may be the more serviceable for the earth; and just such useless things, are a mere external profession of religion, and professors of it, and ministers of the word, without the grace of God; they are of no use, but hurtful to the church, and to the world; these phrases are left out in the Persic and Ethiopic versions:

but men cast it out; into the streets, as entirely useless: and so such graceless professors and ministers, are to be cast out of the churches of Christ now, and will be excluded the kingdom of heaven hereafter:

he that hath ears to hear, let him hear; this being a point of great importance and consequence; :-.

o Nat. Hist. l. 31. c. 7.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See the Matthew 5:13 note; Mark 9:49-50 notes.

Salt is good - It is useful. It is good to preserve life and health, and to keep from putrefaction.

His savour - Its saltness. It becomes tasteless or insipid.

Be seasoned - Be salted again.

Fit for the land - Rather, it is not fit “for land,” that is, it will not bear fruit of itself. You cannot sow or plant on it.

Nor for the dunghill - It is not good for manure. It will not enrich the land,

Cast it out - They throw it away as useless.

He that hath ears ... - See Matthew 11:15. You are to understand that he that has not grace in his heart; who merely makes a profession of religion, and who sustains the same relation to true piety that this insipid and useless mass does to good salt, is useless in the church, and will be rejected. “Real” piety, true religion, is of vast value in the world. It keeps it pure, and saves it from corruption, as salt does meat; but a mere “profession” of religion is fit for nothing. It does no good. It is a mere encumbrance, and all such professors are fit only to be cast out and rejected. All such “must” be rejected by the Son of God, and cast into a world of wretchedness and despair. Compare Matthew 7:22-23; Matthew 8:12; Matthew 23:30; Matthew 25:30; Revelation 3:16; Job 8:13; Job 36:13.