Matthew 5:13

"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.

Leviticus 2:13

"Also, be sure to rub every offering from your grain offering with salt. You are not ever to remove the salt of the covenant of your God from your grain offering. Present all your offerings with salt."

Luke 14:34-35

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

Colossians 4:6

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

Mark 9:49-50

Because everyone will be salted with fire, and every sacrifice will be salted with salt.

Hebrews 6:4-6

For it is impossible to keep on restoring to repentance time and again people who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, who have become partners with the Holy Spirit,

2 Peter 2:20-21

For if, after escaping the world's corruptions through a full knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus, the Messiah, they are again entangled and conquered by those corruptions, then their last condition is worse than their former one.

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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.

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Bible References

The salt

Leviticus 2:13
"Also, be sure to rub every offering from your grain offering with salt. You are not ever to remove the salt of the covenant of your God from your grain offering. Present all your offerings with salt."
Colossians 4:6
Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer everyone.

If

Mark 9:49
Because everyone will be salted with fire, and every sacrifice will be salted with salt.
Luke 14:34
"Now, salt is good. But if the salt should lose its taste, how can its flavor be restored?
Hebrews 6:4
For it is impossible to keep on restoring to repentance time and again people who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, who have become partners with the Holy Spirit,
2 Peter 2:20
For if, after escaping the world's corruptions through a full knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus, the Messiah, they are again entangled and conquered by those corruptions, then their last condition is worse than their former one.

General references

Ezekiel 15:3
Is wood ever taken from it to make anything practical? Can it even be made into a peg to hang something on?

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