Mark 9

Mark 9:39

Forbid him not: for there is no man which shall do a miracle in my name, that can lightly speak evil of me.

Forbid them not: there is no reason to inhibit them that are well affected to us: If they make use of my Name in ejecting devils, it appears they have an honourable conceit of my power; at least they cannot open their mouths in disgrace of me, who do improve my Name to miraculous purposes.

Mark 9:40

For he that is not against us is on our part.

Neither is it for you to set yourselves against them, that make no opposition to us: for, of those that are lookers on, such as make no head against us, do in a sort make for us, in that they oppose us not. It is not to be expected, that all should follow our train: in this common hostility of the world, those, that do not attend us, yet, if they side not against us, are worthy to be favourably entertained.

Mark 9:49

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

That ye may avoid that unquenchable and eternal fire, see and provide carefully that ye may be seasoned with the fire and salt of God’s Spirit: for, as no sacrifice of the law is accepted of God, unless it be first seasoned with salt, and so pass the fire; so no soul can hope to be graciously received of him, which is not wrought upon by the wholesome acrimony of due mortification.

Mark 9:50

Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another.

Have in yourselves the true seasoning of faith, of wisdom, and of all holy graces, which may make you savoury unto God; and have peace outwardly with others. X. 5, 6. For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept. But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female. See Matthew xix. 8.