Matthew 5:13

Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.

Ye {G5210} are {G2075} the salt {G217} of the earth {G1093}: but {G1161} if {G1437} the salt {G217} have lost his savour {G3471}, wherewith {G1722}{G5101} shall it be salted {G233}? it is thenceforth {G2089} good {G2480} for {G1519} nothing {G3762}, but {G1508} to be cast {G906} out {G1854}, and {G2532} to be trodden under foot {G2662} of {G5259} men {G444}.

"You are salt for the Land. But if salt becomes tasteless, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything except being thrown out for people to trample on.

You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its savor, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled by men.

Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost its savor, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out and trodden under foot of men.

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Cross-References

  • Colossians 4:6 (132 votes)

    Let your speech [be] alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.

  • Luke 14:34 (102 votes)

    Salt [is] good: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned?

  • Luke 14:35 (102 votes)

    It is neither fit for the land, nor yet for the dunghill; [but] men cast it out. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.

  • Mark 9:49 (95 votes)

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

  • Mark 9:50 (95 votes)

    Salt [is] good: but if the salt have lost his saltness, wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another.

  • Hebrews 6:4 (76 votes)

    For [it is] impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,

  • Hebrews 6:6 (76 votes)

    If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put [him] to an open shame.