Luke 14:34
“Salt is good, but if salt loses its flavor, how can its flavor be restored?
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- Matt 5:13 : 13 Salt and Light“You are the salt of the earth. But if salt loses its flavor, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled on by people!
- Col 4:6 : 6 Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you should answer everyone.
- Mark 9:49-50 : 49 Everyone will be salted with fire. 50 Salt is good, but if it loses its saltiness, how can you make it salty again? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with each other.”
- Heb 2:4-8 : 4 while God confirmed their witness with signs and wonders and various miracles and gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to his will. 5 Exposition of Psalm 8: Jesus and the Destiny of Humanity For he did not put the world to come, about which we are speaking, under the control of angels. 6 Instead someone testified somewhere:“What is man that you think of him or the son of man that you care for him? 7 You made him lower than the angels for a little while. You crowned him with glory and honor. 8 You put all things under his control.” For when he put all things under his control, he left nothing outside of his control. At present we do not yet see all things under his control,
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- Mark 9:49-502 verses88%
49 Everyone will be salted with fire.
50 Salt is good, but if it loses its saltiness, how can you make it salty again? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with each other.”
- Matt 5:13-142 verses85%
13 Salt and Light“You are the salt of the earth. But if salt loses its flavor, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled on by people!
14 You are the light of the world. A city located on a hill cannot be hidden.
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35 It is of no value for the soil or for the manure pile; it is to be thrown out. The one who has ears to hear had better listen!”
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33 In the same way therefore not one of you can be my disciple if he does not renounce all his own possessions.
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13 Moreover, you must season every one of your grain offerings with salt; you must not allow the salt of the covenant of your God to be missing from your grain offering– on every one of your grain offerings you must present salt.
- Col 4:5-62 verses72%
5 Conduct yourselves with wisdom toward outsiders, making the most of the opportunities.
6 Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you should answer everyone.
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6 Can food that is tasteless be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
- Luke 9:24-252 verses70%
24 For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life because of me will save it.
25 For what does it benefit a person if he gains the whole world but loses or forfeits himself?
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25 For whoever has will be given more, but whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him.”
- Luke 14:25-273 verses69%
25 Counting the Cost Now large crowds were accompanying Jesus, and turning to them he said,
26 “If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother, and wife and children, and brothers and sisters, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.
27 Whoever does not carry his own cross and follow me cannot be my disciple.
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33 Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide yourselves purses that do not wear out– a treasure in heaven that never decreases, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys.
34 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
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24 Then Jesus said to his disciples,“If anyone wants to become my follower, he must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.
25 For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life because of me will find it.
26 For what does it benefit a person if he gains the whole world but forfeits his life? Or what can a person give in exchange for his life?
- Mark 8:35-373 verses69%
35 For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life because of me and because of the gospel will save it.
36 For what benefit is it for a person to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his life?
37 What can a person give in exchange for his life?
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16 Therefore do not let what you consider good be spoken of as evil.
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33 Whoever tries to keep his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will preserve it.
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20 Elisha said,“Get me a new jar and put some salt in it.” So they got it.
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25 The one who loves his life destroys it, and the one who hates his life in this world guards it for eternal life.
- Matt 12:33-353 verses68%
33 Trees and Their Fruit“Make a tree good and its fruit will be good, or make a tree bad and its fruit will be bad, for a tree is known by its fruit.
34 Offspring of vipers! How are you able to say anything good, since you are evil? For the mouth speaks from what fills the heart.
35 The good person brings good things out of his good treasury, and the evil person brings evil things out of his evil treasury.
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39 Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life because of me will find it.
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12 For whoever has will be given more, and will have an abundance. But whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him.
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18 So listen carefully, for whoever has will be given more, but whoever does not have, even what he thinks he has will be taken from him.”
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11 But its swamps and its marshes will not become fresh; they will remain salty.
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34 The Purpose of Parables Jesus spoke all these things in parables to the crowds; he did not speak to them without a parable.
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23 If anyone has ears to hear, he had better listen!”
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12 Can a fig tree produce olives, my brothers and sisters, or a vine produce figs? Neither can a salt water spring produce fresh water.
- Matt 15:16-172 verses67%
16 Jesus said,“Even after all this, are you still so foolish?
17 Don’t you understand that whatever goes into the mouth enters the stomach and then passes out into the sewer?
- Matt 25:29-302 verses66%
29 For the one who has will be given more, and he will have more than enough. But the one who does not have, even what he has will be taken from him.
30 And throw that worthless slave into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’
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14 And if anyone will not welcome you or listen to your message, shake the dust off your feet as you leave that house or that town.
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6 They will be like a shrub in the arid rift valley. They will not experience good things even when they happen. It will be as though they were growing in the stony wastes in the wilderness, in a salt land where no one can live.
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34 and a fruitful land into a barren place, because of the sin of its inhabitants.
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15 The one who has ears had better listen!
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6 Do not give what is holy to dogs or throw your pearls before pigs; otherwise they will trample them under their feet and turn around and tear you to pieces.
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33 So the disciples began to say to one another,“No one brought him anything to eat, did they?”
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14 Do Not Reject God’s Warning Pursue peace with everyone, and holiness, for without it no one will see the Lord.