Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

General references

Bible References

The salt

Leviticus 2:13
Season every grain offering with salt. Do not leave the salt of the covenant of your God out of your grain offering. All of your offerings must have salt.
Colossians 4:6
Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.

If

Mark 9:49
For every one will be salted with fire.
Luke 14:34
Salt is good. But if it loses its saltiness it cannot be made salty again.
Hebrews 6:4
Those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit,
2 Peter 2:20
After they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled and overcome; the last state is worse with them than the first.

General references

Ezekiel 15:3
Can wood be taken from it to make anything? Can men take a peg from it on which to hang any vessel?