"You are the salt of the earth, but if the salt has lost its flavor, with what will it be salted? It is then good for nothing, but to be cast out and trodden under the feet of men.

Salt is good, but if the salt has lost its saltiness, with what will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another."

Salt is good, but if the salt becomes flat and tasteless, with what do you season it?

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

Can a fig tree, my brothers, yield olives, or a vine figs? Nor is salt water able to produce sweet.