Parallel Verses
Webster
Salt is good: but if the salt hath lost its savor, with what shall it be seasoned?
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned?
Holman Bible
International Standard Version
"Now, salt is good. But if the salt should lose its taste, how can its flavor be restored?
A Conservative Version
The salt material is good, but if the salt material becomes tasteless, by what will it be seasoned?
American Standard Version
Salt therefore is good: but if even the salt have lost its savor, wherewith shall it be seasoned?
Amplified
An Understandable Version
Therefore salt is good, but if it loses its flavoring [ability], how will it ever get it back again?
Anderson New Testament
Salt is good; but if the salt become taste less, by what means shall it become salt again?
Bible in Basic English
For salt is good, but if the taste goes from it, of what use is it?
Common New Testament
Salt is good; but if the salt has lost its taste, how shall it be seasoned?
Daniel Mace New Testament
salt is good, but if the salt has lost its savour, with what shall it be recovered?
Darby Translation
Salt then is good, but if the salt also has become savourless, wherewith shall it be seasoned?
Godbey New Testament
Therefore salt is good: but if the salt may lose its savor, with what shall it be salted?
Goodspeed New Testament
Salt is good; but if salt loses its strength, what can it be seasoned with?
John Wesley New Testament
Salt is good: but if the salt have lost its savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned?
Julia Smith Translation
Salt good: but if salt be rendered insipid, with what shall it be fitted?
King James 2000
Salt is good: but if the salt has lost its taste, how shall it be restored?
Lexham Expanded Bible
"Now salt [is] good, but if salt becomes tasteless, with what will it be made salty?
Modern King James verseion
Salt is good, but if the salt has become tasteless, with what shall it be seasoned?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Salt is good, but if salt have lost her saltiness, what shall be seasoned therewith?
Moffatt New Testament
Salt is excellent indeed: but if salt becomes insipid, what will restore its flavour?
Montgomery New Testament
"Salt is good, but if even the salt have lost its flavor, with what shall it be seasoned?
NET Bible
"Salt is good, but if salt loses its flavor, how can its flavor be restored?
New Heart English Bible
Salt is good, but if the salt becomes flat and tasteless, with what do you season it?
Noyes New Testament
Salt then is good; but if the salt itself have lost its savor, wherewith shall it be seasoned?
Sawyer New Testament
Salt, therefore, is good; but if the salt has lost its strength, with what shall it be seasoned?
The Emphasized Bible
Good, therefore is the salt; but, if, even the salt, become tasteless, wherewith shall it be seasoned?
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Salt is good: but if the salt become insipid, by what shall it be seasoned?
Twentieth Century New Testament
Yes, salt is good; but, if the salt itself should lose its strength, what shall be used to season it?
Weymouth New Testament
"Salt is good: but if even the salt has become tasteless, what will you use to season it?
Williams New Testament
Salt is good, but if salt itself loses its strength, how can that strength be restored?
World English Bible
Salt is good, but if the salt becomes flat and tasteless, with what do you season it?
Worrell New Testament
Salt, therefore, is good; but if even the salt become tasteless, with what shall it be seasoned?
Worsley New Testament
Salt is good; but if the salt have lost it's savor, wherewith shall it be seasoned?
Youngs Literal Translation
The salt is good, but if the salt doth become tasteless, with what shall it be seasoned?
Themes
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Manuring
Jesus Christ » History of » Teaches the multitude the conditions of discipleship (in peraea)
Parables » Parables of Christ » Savor of salt
Salt » If salt loses its savor
Salt » Figurative » Of the saving efficacy of the ekklesia of Christ
Christians as The salt » The church, like salt, saves by contact
Interlinear
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Word Count of 37 Translations in Luke 14:34
Verse Info
Context Readings
Salt Without Taste Is Worthless
33 So likewise, whoever he is of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple. 34 Salt is good: but if the salt hath lost its savor, with what shall it be seasoned? 35 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.
Names
Cross References
Matthew 5:13
Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt hath lost its savor, with what shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot by men.
Mark 9:49-50
For every one shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt.
Colossians 4:6
Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
Hebrews 2:4-8
God also bearing them testimony, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Spirit, according to his own will?