You are the salt of the earth: but if the salt has lost its flavor, how shall it be salted? It is then good for nothing, but to be thrown out, and to be trodden under foot by men.
Only let your conduct be suitable for the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else am absent, I may hear of your affairs, that you stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;