Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his flavor, with which shall it be seasoned? Treasury of Scripture Salt. Common salt, or muriate of soda, consists of soda in combination with muriatic acid, and is for the most part an artificial preparation from sea water, though found in some countries in a solid and massive state. See particularly Le. Luke 2:13 And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying, . but. Matthew 5:13 You are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his flavor, with which shall it be salted? it is thereafter good for nothing... Mark 9:49,50 For every one shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt... Colossians 4:6 Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer every man. Hebrews 2:4-8 God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost...
Context The Cost of Following Jesus
25And there went great multitudes with him: and he turned, and said to them, 26If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. 27And whoever does not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple. 28For which of you, intending to build a tower, sits not down first, and counts the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it? 29Lest haply, after he has laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that behold it begin to mock him, 30Saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish. 31Or what king, going to make war against another king, sits not down first, and consults whether he be able with ten thousand to meet him that comes against him with twenty thousand? 32Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends an ambassador, and desires conditions of peace. 33So likewise, whoever he be of you that forsakes not all that he has, he cannot be my disciple. 34Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his flavor, with which shall it be seasoned? 35It is neither fit for the land, nor yet for the dunghill; but men cast it out. He that has ears to hear, let him hear. Parallel Verses American Standard Version
Salt therefore is good: but if even the salt have lost its savor, wherewith shall it be seasoned?
Douay-Rheims Bible
Salt is good. But if the salt shall lose its savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned?
Darby Bible Translation
Salt then is good, but if the salt also has become savourless, wherewith shall it be seasoned?
King James Bible
Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned?
Young's Literal Translation
The salt is good, but if the salt doth become tasteless, with what shall it be seasoned?
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