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.

The salt

Bible References

The salt

Colossians 4:6
Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with discretion to know how ye ought to answer every one.

If

Mark 9:49
For every one shall be as it were salted by fire, and every sacrifice shall be seasoned as with salt.
Luke 14:34
Salt is good; but if the salt have lost it's savor, wherewith shall it be seasoned?
Hebrews 6:4
who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the holy Spirit,
2 Peter 2:20
For if, after they had escaped the pollutions of the world, through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled and vanquished by them, their last state is worse than the first;