Matthew 5:13

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

`Ye are the salt of the land, but if the salt may lose savour, in what shall it be salted? for nothing is it good henceforth, except to be cast without, and to be trodden down by men.

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Referenced Verses

  • Col 4:6 : 6 your word always in grace -- with salt being seasoned -- to know how it behoveth you to answer each one.
  • Luke 14:34-35 : 34 `The salt `is' good, but if the salt doth become tasteless, with what shall it be seasoned? 35 neither for land nor for manure is it fit -- they cast it without. He who is having ears to hear -- let him hear.'
  • Lev 2:13 : 13 And every offering -- thy present -- with salt thou dost season, and thou dost not let the salt of the covenant of thy God cease from thy present; with all thine offerings thou dost bring near salt.
  • Mark 9:49-50 : 49 for every one with fire shall be salted, and every sacrifice with salt shall be salted. 50 The salt `is' good, but if the salt may become saltless, in what will ye season `it'? Have in yourselves salt, and have peace in one another.'
  • Heb 6:4-6 : 4 for `it is' impossible for those once enlightened, having tasted also of the heavenly gift, and partakers having became of the Holy Spirit, 5 and did taste the good saying of God, the powers also of the coming age, 6 and having fallen away, again to renew `them' to reformation, having crucified again to themselves the Son of God, and exposed to public shame.
  • 2 Pet 2:20-21 : 20 for, if having escaped from the pollutions of the world, in the acknowledging of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and by these again being entangled, they have been overcome, become to them hath the last things worse than the first, 21 for it were better to them not to have acknowledged the way of the righteousness, than having acknowledged `it', to turn back from the holy command delivered to them,

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Luke 14:33-35
    3 verses
    85%

    33`So, then, every one of you who doth not take leave of all that he himself hath, is not able to be my disciple.

    34`The salt `is' good, but if the salt doth become tasteless, with what shall it be seasoned?

    35neither for land nor for manure is it fit -- they cast it without. He who is having ears to hear -- let him hear.'

  • Matt 5:14-16
    3 verses
    84%

    14`Ye are the light of the world, a city set upon a mount is not able to be hid;

    15nor do they light a lamp, and put it under the measure, but on the lamp-stand, and it shineth to all those in the house;

    16so let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works, and may glorify your Father who `is' in the heavens.

  • Mark 9:49-50
    2 verses
    82%

    49for every one with fire shall be salted, and every sacrifice with salt shall be salted.

    50The salt `is' good, but if the salt may become saltless, in what will ye season `it'? Have in yourselves salt, and have peace in one another.'

  • Matt 5:10-12
    3 verses
    75%

    10`Happy those persecuted for righteousness' sake -- because theirs is the reign of the heavens.

    11`Happy are ye whenever they may reproach you, and may persecute, and may say any evil thing against you falsely for my sake --

    12rejoice ye and be glad, because your reward `is' great in the heavens, for thus did they persecute the prophets who were before you.

  • Luke 9:5
    71%

    5and as many as may not receive you, going forth from that city, even the dust from your feet shake off, for a testimony against them.'

  • Matt 10:14-15
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    70%

    14`And whoever may not receive you nor hear your words, coming forth from that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet,

    15verily I say to you, It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city.

  • Matt 7:6
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    6`Ye may not give that which is `holy' to the dogs, nor cast your pearls before the swine, that they may not trample them among their feet, and having turned -- may rend you.

  • Mark 13:13
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    13and ye shall be hated by all because of my name, but he who hath endured to the end -- he shall be saved.

  • Matt 13:42-44
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    69%

    42and shall cast them to the furnace of the fire; there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of the teeth.

    43`Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the reign of their Father. He who is having ears to hear -- let him hear.

    44`Again, the reign of the heavens is like to treasure hid in the field, which a man having found did hide, and from his joy goeth, and all, as much as he hath, he selleth, and buyeth that field.

  • Mark 13:9-10
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    69%

    9`And take ye heed to yourselves, for they shall deliver you up to sanhedrims, and to synagogues, ye shall be beaten, and before governors and kings ye shall be set for my sake, for a testimony to them;

    10and to all the nations it behoveth first that the good news be proclaimed.

  • Luke 6:22-23
    2 verses
    69%

    22`Happy are ye when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you, and shall reproach, and shall cast forth your name as evil, for the Son of Man's sake --

    23rejoice in that day, and leap, for lo, your reward `is' great in the heaven, for according to these things were their fathers doing to the prophets.

  • Matt 5:5
    69%

    5`Happy the meek -- because they shall inherit the land.

  • Luke 9:25
    69%

    25for what is a man profited, having gained the whole world, and having lost or having forfeited himself?

  • Matt 25:30
    69%

    30and the unprofitable servant cast ye forth to the outer darkness; there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of the teeth.

  • John 15:19-20
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    19if of the world ye were, the world its own would have been loving, and because of the world ye are not -- but I chose out of the world -- because of this the world hateth you.

    20`Remember the word that I said to you, A servant is not greater than his lord; if me they did persecute, you also they will persecute; if my word they did keep, yours also they will keep;

  • Phil 2:15
    68%

    15that ye may become blameless and harmless, children of God, unblemished in the midst of a generation crooked and perverse, among whom ye do appear as luminaries in the world,

  • Mark 4:21
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    21And he said to them, `Doth the lamp come that under the measure it may be put, or under the couch -- not that it may be put on the lamp-stand?

  • Luke 11:33
    68%

    33`And no one having lighted a lamp, doth put `it' in a secret place, nor under the measure, but on the lamp-stand, that those coming in may behold the light.

  • Matt 13:50
    68%

    50and shall cast them to the furnace of the fire, there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of the teeth.'

  • Matt 10:22-23
    2 verses
    68%

    22and ye shall be hated by all because of my name, but he who hath endured to the end, he shall be saved.

    23`And whenever they may persecute you in this city, flee to the other, for verily I say to you, ye may not have completed the cities of Israel till the Son of Man may come.

  • Matt 8:12
    68%

    12but the sons of the reign shall be cast forth to the outer darkness -- there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of the teeth.'

  • Mark 6:11
    68%

    11and as many as may not receive you, nor hear you, going out thence, shake off the dust that is under your feet for a testimony to them; verily I say to you, It shall be more tolerable for Sodom or Gomorrah in a day of judgment than for that city.'

  • Lev 2:13
    68%

    13And every offering -- thy present -- with salt thou dost season, and thou dost not let the salt of the covenant of thy God cease from thy present; with all thine offerings thou dost bring near salt.

  • Matt 16:25-26
    2 verses
    68%

    25for whoever may will to save his life, shall lose it, and whoever may lose his life for my sake shall find it,

    26for what is a man profited if he may gain the whole world, but of his life suffer loss? or what shall a man give as an exchange for his life?

  • Matt 10:18
    67%

    18and before governors and kings ye shall be brought for my sake, for a testimony to them and to the nations.

  • Mark 8:35
    67%

    35for whoever may will to save his life shall lose it; and whoever may lose his life for my sake and for the good news' sake, he shall save it;

  • Matt 6:23
    67%

    23but if thine eye may be evil, all thy body shall be dark; if, therefore, the light that `is' in thee is darkness -- the darkness, how great!

  • Matt 5:48
    67%

    48ye shall therefore be perfect, as your Father who `is' in the heavens is perfect.

  • Luke 10:15
    67%

    15`And thou, Capernaum, which unto the heaven wast exalted, unto hades thou shalt be brought down.

  • Matt 13:5
    67%

    5and others fell upon the rocky places, where they had not much earth, and immediately they sprang forth, through not having depth of earth,

  • Matt 10:27
    67%

    27that which I tell you in the darkness, speak in the light, and that which you hear at the ear, proclaim on the house-tops.

  • Col 4:6
    67%

    6your word always in grace -- with salt being seasoned -- to know how it behoveth you to answer each one.

  • Matt 5:19-20
    2 verses
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    19`Whoever therefore may loose one of these commands -- the least -- and may teach men so, least he shall be called in the reign of the heavens, but whoever may do and may teach `them', he shall be called great in the reign of the heavens.

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    28`There shall be there the weeping and the gnashing of the teeth, when ye may see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the reign of God, and yourselves being cast out without;