13Ye 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.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned? …
For every one shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt. …
For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, …
And every oblation of thy meat offering shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meat offering: with all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 13-16)Christ had lately called his disciples, and told them that they should be fishers of men ; here he tells them further what he designed them to be— the salt of the earth , and lights of the world , that they might be indeed what it was expected they should be. I. Ye are the salt of the earth . This would encourage and support them under their sufferings, that, though they should be treated with con…
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