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 speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer each one.

If

Mark 9:49
For every one shall be salted with fire.
Luke 14:34
Salt, therefore, is good; but if even the salt become tasteless, with what shall it be seasoned?
Hebrews 6:4
For as to those who were once enlightened, and tasted of the heavenly gift, and became partakers of the Holy Spirit,
2 Peter 2:20
For if, after having escaped the defilements of the world in a full knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, but, having again become entangled with these, they are overcome, the last state has become worse with them than the first.