Luke 14:34

Salt is good; but if the salt become tasteless, by what means shall it become salt again?

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned?

In Context

33So, then, whoever of you does not forsake all that he has, can not be my disciple.

35It is fit neither for earth, nor for manure; but they cast it out. He that has ears to hear, let him hear.

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Cross References

Mark 9:49For every one shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be seasoned with salt.

Hebrews 2:4God also bearing testimony with them by signs and wonders, and by various mighty deeds, and by distributions of the Holy Spirit, according to his own will.

Matthew Henry on Luke 14:26-35

The Necessity of Self-denial. 25 And there went great multitudes with him: and he turned, and said unto them, 26 If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. 27 And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple. 28 For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it? 29 Lest haply, after… Read the whole commentary →

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