Keep salt in yourselves and you will have peace with one another

Reading 1 and//usccb.org/bible/readings/bible/sirach/5and1 SIR 5and1-8 Rely not on your wealthsay notand I have the power. Rely not on your strengthin following the desires of your heart.Say notand Who can prevail against me? or, Who will subdue me for my deeds? for God will surely exact the punishment.Say notand I have sinned, yet what has befallen me? for the Most High bides his time.Of forgiveness be not overconfident,adding sin upon sin.Say notand Great is his mercymy many sins he will forgive. For mercy and anger alike are with himupon the wicked alights his wrath.Delay not your conversion to the LORD,put it not off from day to day.For suddenly his wrath flames forthat the time of vengeance you will be destroyed.Rely not upon deceitful wealth,for it will be no help on the day of wrath. Responsorial Psalm and//usccb.org/bible/readings/bible/psalms/1and1 PS 1and1-2, 3, 4 AND 6 R. (40and5a)Blessed are they who hope in the Lord.Blessed the man who follows notthe counsel of the wickedNor walks in the way of sinners,nor sits in the company of the insolent,But delights in the law of the LORDand meditates on his law day and night.R.Blessed are they who hope in the Lord.He is like a treeplanted near running water,That yields its fruit in due season,and whose leaves never fade.Whatever he does, prospers.R.Blessed are they who hope in the Lord.Not so the wicked, not sothey are like chaff which the wind drives away.For the LORD watches over the way of the just,but the way of the wicked vanishes.R.Blessed are they who hope in the Lord. Alleluia and//usccb.org/bible/readings/bible/1thessalonians/2:13 1 THES 2:13 R.Alleluia, alleluia.Receive the word of God, not as the word of men,but as it truly is, the word of God.R.Alleluia, alleluia. Gospel and//usccb.org/bible/readings/bible/mark/9:41 MK 9:41-50 Jesus said to his disciplesand Anyone who gives you a cup of water to drinkbecause you belong to Christ,amen, I say to you, will surely not lose his reward. Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin,it would be better for him if a great millstonewere put around his neckand he were thrown into the sea.If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off.It is better for you to enter into life maimedthan with two hands to go into Gehenna,into the unquenchable fire.And if your foot causes you to sin, cut if off.It is better for you to enter into life crippledthan with two feet to be thrown into Gehenna.And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out.Better for you to enter into the Kingdom of God with one eyethan with two eyes to be thrown into Gehenna,wheretheir worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched. Everyone will be salted with fire.Salt is good, but if salt becomes insipid,with what will you restore its flavor?Keep salt in yourselves and you will have peace with one another.