Ye are the salt of the earth, but if the salt be grown insipid, wherewith shall it be seasoned? it is no longer fit for any thing, but to be thrown out of doors, and trodden under foot.

For every one shall be as it were salted by fire, and every sacrifice shall be seasoned as with salt.

Salt is useful, but if the salt become insipid, wherewith will ye season it? Have salt therefore in yourselves, and as a proof of it be at peace one with another.

the son of Saruch, the son of Ragau, the son of Phalec, the son of Heber, the son of Sala, the son of Cainan,

Salt is good; but if the salt have lost it's savor, wherewith shall it be seasoned?

Can a fig-tree, my brethren, produce olives, or a vine figs? so can no fountain produce salt water and sweet.

and by artful speeches they will make sale of you for gain. Whose judgement is long since hastening, and their destruction doth not slumber.