"You are the salt of the world. But if the salt should lose its taste, how can it be made salty again? It's good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled on by people.

"Now, salt is good. But if the salt should lose its taste, how can its flavor be restored?

Have salt

Let no filthy talk be heard from your mouths, but only what is good for building up people and meeting the need of the moment. This way you will administer grace to those who hear you.

Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer everyone.

Have peace

Avoid evil and do good! Seek peace and pursue it!

Look how good and how pleasant it is when brothers live together in unity!

I'm giving you a new commandment"to love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another.

I am giving you these commandments so that you may love one another."

If possible, so far as it depends on you, live in peace with all people.

For God's kingdom does not consist of food and drink, but of righteousness, peace, and joy produced by the Holy Spirit.

Finally, brothers, goodbye. Keep on growing to maturity. Keep listening to my appeals. Continue agreeing with each other and living in peace. Then the God of love and peace will be with you.

For the whole Law is summarized in a single statement: "You must love your neighbor as yourself."

demonstrating all expressions of humility, gentleness, and patience, accepting one another in love.

The only thing that matters is that you continue to live as good citizens in a manner worthy of the gospel of the Messiah. Then, whether I come to see you or whether I stay away, I may hear all about you that you are standing firm in one spirit, struggling with one mind for the faith of the gospel,

Therefore, if there is any encouragement in the Messiah, if there is any comfort of love, if there is any fellowship in the Spirit, if there is any compassion and sympathy,

Therefore, as God's chosen ones, holy and loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience.

Flee from youthful passions. Instead, pursue righteousness, faithfulness, love, and peace together with those who call on the Lord with a pure heart.

Pursue peace with everyone, as well as holiness, without which no one will see the Lord.

For human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires.

But if you have bitter jealousy and rivalry in your hearts, stop boasting and slandering the truth.

Finally, all of you must live in harmony, be sympathetic, love as brothers, and be compassionate and humble.

General references

Is wood ever taken from it to make anything practical? Can it even be made into a peg to hang something on?

If possible, so far as it depends on you, live in peace with all people.