Luke 14:34 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition) Therefore salt is good, but if it loses its flavoring [ability], how will it ever get it back again? More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Salt is good [an excellent thing], but if salt has lost its strength and has become saltless (insipid, flat), how shall its saltness be restored? American Standard Version (1901) Salt therefore is good: but if even the salt have lost its savor, wherewith shall it be seasoned? Common English Bible “Salt is good. But if salt loses its flavor, how will it become salty again? Catholic Public Domain Version Salt is good. But if the salt has lost its flavor, with what will it be seasoned? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Salt is good. But if the salt shall lose its savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned? |
“You people are [like] salt on the earth. But if salt loses its flavoring ability, how will it ever get it back again? From then on it would be good for nothing except to be thrown out onto the roadway and walked on by people. [Note: This was mined salt which, when losing its “saltiness” due to exposure to the sun or rain, was simply disposed of by being dumped onto the roadway where people walked].
Your speech should always be favorable, seasoned with salt [i.e., interesting and appropriate], so that you may know how to properly answer each person [you talk with].