Everyone Will Be Seasoned With Fire (Mark 9:49) No. 1 | Orthodox Christian Hoodie / Hooded Sweatshirt

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

- Mark 9:49

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Each one’s work will become clear; for the Day will declare it, because it will be revealed by fire; and the fire will test each one’s work, of what sort it is. 

- 1 Cor 3:13

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And every offering of your grain offering you shall season with salt; you shall not allow the salt of the covenant of your God to be lacking from your grain offering. With all your offerings you shall offer salt. 

- Lev 2:13

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It is good for you to season your sacrifices with the salt of God, which means, do not make offerings that you have not carefully prepared to please God. “Salt” is also what the Lord calls the apostles, and in general, all those with the duty to preserve others from corruption. Just as salt preserves meat, and prevents worms from breeding within it, so do words of teaching, if they are astringent, shrink the fleshliness of carnal men, and prevent the “worm that never sleeps” (Mark 9:48) from breeding within them. But if the teacher is without salt, that is, if he has no astringent to preserve us from rot, with what shall he be salted, that is, be seasoned? Have salt therefore in yourselves, that is, have the pleasing and preserving grace of the Holy Spirit, so that you may have peace with one another. For he who is bound to his neighbor by love has shrunk his carnal self, and it is he who “has salt,” and he is at peace with his brother. 

- Blessed Theophylact