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.

General references

Bible References

The salt

Leviticus 2:13
And every sacrifice of your food offering shall you season with salt. And you shall not allow the salt of the covenant of your God to be lacking from your food offering. You shall offer salt with all your offerings.
Colossians 4:6
Let your speech be always with grace, having been seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.

If

Mark 9:49
For every one shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt.
Luke 14:34
Salt is good, but if the salt has become tasteless, with what shall it be seasoned?
Hebrews 6:4
For it is impossible for those 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 they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the full knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and are again entangled, they have been overcome by these, their last things are worse than the first.

General references

Ezekiel 15:3
Shall wood be taken from it to do work? Or will men take from it for a peg to hang any vessel on it?