Ye 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.
Only let your conversation be as it becometh the good newsl of Moshiach: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the good news;
Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to [14] the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.