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 word be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how it behooves you to answer each one.

If

Mark 9:49
For every one shall be salted with fire.
Luke 14:34
Therefore salt is good: but if the salt may lose its savor, with what shall it be salted?
Hebrews 6:4
For it is impossible that those having been once enlightened, and tasted the heavenly gift, and have been made partakers of the Holy Ghost,
2 Peter 2:20
For if having escaped the pollutions of the world through the perfect knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and having again become entangled in these things, they are overcome, the last state has to them become worse than the first.