You are the salt of the earth. But if salt becomes insipid, what can make it salt again? After that it is fit for nothing, fit only to be thrown outside and trodden by the feet of men.

Salt is excellent: but if salt is tasteless, how are you to restore its flavour? Let there be 'salt between you'; be at peace with one another."

the son of Jessai, the son of Jobed, the son of Boaz, the son of Sala, the son of Nahshon,

the son of Serug, the son of Reu, the son of Peleg, the son of Eber, the son of Sala,

Salt is excellent indeed: but if salt becomes insipid, what will restore its flavour?

There was not a needy person among them, for those who owned land or houses would sell them and bring the proceeds of the sale,

When it remained unsold, did it not remain your own? And even after the sale, was the money not yours to do as you pleased about it? How could you think of doing a thing like this? You have not defrauded men but God."

let your talk always have a saving salt of grace about it, and learn how to answer any question put to you.

Can a fig tree, my brothers, bear olives? Or a vine, figs? No more can salt water yield fresh.