Luke 14:34

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Salt is good, but if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again?

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  • Matt 5:13 : 13 You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by people.
  • Col 4:6 : 6 Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.
  • Mark 9:49-50 : 49 For everyone will be salted with fire, and every sacrifice will be seasoned with salt. 50 Salt is good, but if it loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? Have salt among yourselves and be at peace with one another.
  • Heb 2:4-8 : 4 God also bore witness with signs and wonders and various miracles, and by distributions of the Holy Spirit according to His will. 5 For it was not to angels that He subjected the world to come, about which we are speaking. 6 But somewhere it has been testified in these words: 'What is man, that You are mindful of him, or the son of man, that You care for him? 7 You made him a little lower than the angels; You crowned him with glory and honor, 8 and You put everything under his feet.' In putting everything under him, God left nothing that is not subject to him. However, at present, we do not yet see everything subjected to him.

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  • Mark 9:49-50
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    49For everyone will be salted with fire, and every sacrifice will be seasoned with salt.

    50Salt is good, but if it loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? Have salt among yourselves and be at peace with one another.

  • Matt 5:13-14
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    13You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by people.

    14You are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden.

  • Luke 14:35
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    35It is no longer fit for the soil or the manure pile; it is thrown out. Let anyone who has ears to hear listen.

  • Luke 14:33
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    33In the same way, any one of you who does not give up all his possessions cannot be my disciple.

  • Lev 2:13
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    13Season all your grain offerings with salt. Do not leave the salt of the covenant of your God out of your grain offerings; add salt to all your offerings.

  • Col 4:5-6
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    5Conduct yourselves wisely toward outsiders, making the most of the opportunity.

    6Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.

  • Job 6:6
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    6Can something tasteless be eaten without salt? Or is there any flavor in the white of an egg?

  • Luke 9:24-25
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    24'For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for my sake will save it.'

    25'What good is it for someone to gain the whole world and yet lose or forfeit their very self?'

  • Mark 4:25
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    25For whoever has, more will be given to him; and whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him.

  • Luke 14:25-27
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    25Large crowds were traveling with Jesus, and turning to them, he said,

    26If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters—yes, even his own life—he cannot be my disciple.

    27And whoever does not carry his own cross and follow me cannot be my disciple.

  • Luke 12:33-34
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    33Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Make for yourselves purses that will not wear out, a treasure in heaven that will not fail, where no thief comes near and no moth destroys.

    34For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

  • Matt 16:24-26
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    24Then Jesus said to His disciples, "If anyone wants to come after Me, he must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow Me.

    25For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.

    26For what will it profit a person to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul? Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul?

  • Mark 8:35-37
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    35For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me and for the gospel will save it.

    36What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul?

    37Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul?

  • Rom 14:16
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    16Therefore, do not let what you know is good be spoken of as evil.

  • Mark 7:16
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    16If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear."

  • Luke 17:33
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    33Whoever tries to save their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life will preserve it.

  • 2 Kgs 2:20
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    20Elisha said, 'Bring me a new bowl and put salt in it.' So they brought it to him.

  • John 12:25
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    25The one who loves his life will lose it, and the one who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.

  • Matt 12:33-35
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    33Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree bad and its fruit bad, for a tree is known by its fruit.

    34You brood of vipers! How can you speak good things when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

    35The good person brings out good things from the good treasure of his heart, and the evil person brings out evil things from his evil treasure.

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    39Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.

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    12For whoever has, more will be given to them, and they will have abundance. But whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken away from them.

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    18Pay attention, therefore, to how you listen. For whoever has will be given more; but whoever does not have, even what they think they have will be taken away from them.

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    11But the swamps and marshes will not become fresh; they will be left for salt.

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  • Mark 4:23
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    23If anyone has ears to hear, let them hear.

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    12Can a fig tree, my brothers, bear olives, or a grapevine produce figs? Neither can a salt spring yield fresh water.

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    16Jesus replied, “Are you still without understanding?”

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  • Matt 25:29-30
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    29For to everyone who has, more will be given, and they will have an abundance. But whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken away from them.

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    14If anyone will not welcome you or listen to your words, leave that house or town and shake off the dust from your feet.

  • Jer 17:6
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    6They will be like a shrub in the desert, dwelling in a parched place in the wilderness, in a land of salt where no one lives, and will not see when prosperity comes.

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    34and a fruitful land into a salt waste, because of the wickedness of those who dwell there.

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    15He who has ears, let him hear.

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    6Do not give what is holy to dogs, nor cast your pearls before pigs, lest they trample them underfoot and turn to tear you to pieces.

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    33So the disciples said to one another, "Could someone have brought him something to eat?"

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    14Pursue peace with everyone, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord.