Matthew 5:13

A Conservative Version

Ye are the salt material of the earth. But if the salt material becomes ineffective, by what will it be salted? It is potent for nothing further, except to be cast outside and to be trodden down by men.

Cross References

Colossians 4:6

your speech always with grace seasoned with salt, to know how it is fitting for you to answer each one.

Leviticus 2:13

And every oblation of thy meal-offering thou shall season with salt, nor shall thou allow the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meal-offering. With all thine oblations thou shall offer salt.

Job 6:6

Can that which has no savor be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?

Hebrews 10:29

By how much worse punishment do ye think he will deserve who has trampled the Son of God, and who considered profane the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and who treated the Spirit of grace contemptuously?