Matthew 5:13

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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!

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Referenced Verses

  • Col 4:6 : 6 Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you should answer everyone.
  • Luke 14:34-35 : 34 “Salt is good, but if salt loses its flavor, how can its flavor be restored? 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!”
  • Lev 2:13 : 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.
  • 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 6:4-6 : 4 For it is impossible in the case of those who have once been enlightened, tasted the heavenly gift, become partakers of the Holy Spirit, 5 tasted the good word of God and the miracles of the coming age, 6 and then have committed apostasy, to renew them again to repentance, since they are crucifying the Son of God for themselves all over again and holding him up to contempt.
  • 2 Pet 2:20-21 : 20 For if after they have escaped the filthy things of the world through the rich knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they again get entangled in them and succumb to them, their last state has become worse for them than their first. 21 For it would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than, having known it, to turn back from the holy commandment that had been delivered to them.

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  • Luke 14:33-35
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    33In the same way therefore not one of you can be my disciple if he does not renounce all his own possessions.

    34“Salt is good, but if salt loses its flavor, how can its flavor be restored?

    35It 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!”

  • Matt 5:14-16
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    84%

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

    15People do not light a lamp and put it under a basket but on a lampstand, and it gives light to all in the house.

    16In the same way, let your light shine before people, so that they can see your good deeds and give honor to your Father in heaven.

  • Mark 9:49-50
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    49Everyone will be salted with fire.

    50Salt 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 5:10-12
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    10“Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to them.

    11“Blessed are you when people insult you and persecute you and say all kinds of evil things about you falsely on account of me.

    12Rejoice and be glad, because your reward is great in heaven, for they persecuted the prophets before you in the same way.

  • Luke 9:5
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    5Wherever they do not receive you, as you leave that town, shake the dust off your feet as a testimony against them.”

  • Matt 10:14-15
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    14And 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.

    15I tell you the truth, it will be more bearable for the region of Sodom and Gomorrah on the day of judgment than for that town!

  • Matt 7:6
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    6Do 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.

  • Mark 13:13
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    13You will be hated by everyone because of my name. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.

  • Matt 13:42-44
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    42They will throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

    43Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. The one who has ears had better listen!

    44Parables on the Kingdom of Heaven“The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure, hidden in a field, that a person found and hid. Then because of joy he went and sold all that he had and bought that field.

  • Mark 13:9-10
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    9Persecution of Disciples“You must watch out for yourselves. You will be handed over to councils and beaten in the synagogues. You will stand before governors and kings because of me, as a witness to them.

    10First the gospel must be preached to all nations.

  • Luke 6:22-23
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    22“Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude you and insult you and reject you as evil on account of the Son of Man!

    23Rejoice in that day, and jump for joy, because your reward is great in heaven. For their ancestors did the same things to the prophets.

  • Matt 5:5
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    5“Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.

  • Luke 9:25
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    25For what does it benefit a person if he gains the whole world but loses or forfeits himself?

  • Matt 25:30
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    30And throw that worthless slave into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’

  • John 15:19-20
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    19If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as its own. However, because you do not belong to the world, but I chose you out of the world, for this reason the world hates you.

    20Remember what I told you,‘A slave is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they obeyed my word, they will obey yours too.

  • Phil 2:15
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    15so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God without blemish though you live in a crooked and perverse society, in which you shine as lights in the world

  • Mark 4:21
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    21The Parable of the Lamp He also said to them,“A lamp isn’t brought to be put under a basket or under a bed, is it? Isn’t it to be placed on a lampstand?

  • Luke 11:33
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    33Internal Light“No one after lighting a lamp puts it in a hidden place or under a basket, but on a lampstand, so that those who come in can see the light.

  • Matt 13:50
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    50and throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

  • Matt 10:22-23
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    22And you will be hated by everyone because of my name. But the one who endures to the end will be saved!

    23Whenever they persecute you in one town, flee to another! I tell you the truth, you will not finish going through all the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes.

  • Matt 8:12
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    12but the sons of the kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

  • Mark 6:11
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    11If a place will not welcome you or listen to you, as you go out from there, shake the dust off your feet as a testimony against them.”

  • Lev 2:13
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    13Moreover, 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.

  • Matt 16:25-26
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    25For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life because of me will find it.

    26For 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?

  • Matt 10:18
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    18And you will be brought before governors and kings because of me, as a witness to them and to the Gentiles.

  • Mark 8:35
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    35For 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.

  • Matt 6:23
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    23But if your eye is diseased, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

  • Matt 5:48
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    48So then, be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

  • Luke 10:15
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    15And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? No, you will be thrown down to Hades!

  • Matt 13:5
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    5Other seeds fell on rocky ground where they did not have much soil. They sprang up quickly because the soil was not deep.

  • Matt 10:27
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    27What I say to you in the dark, tell in the light, and what is whispered in your ear, proclaim from the housetops.

  • Col 4:6
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    6Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you should answer everyone.

  • Matt 5:19-20
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    19So anyone who breaks one of the least of these commands and teaches others to do so will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever obeys them and teaches others to do so will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

    20For I tell you, unless your righteousness goes beyond that of the experts in the law and the Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven!

  • Luke 13:28
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    28There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth when you see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets in the kingdom of God but you yourselves thrown out.