Luke 14:34

The salt [is] good, but if the salt becomes tasteless, with what will it be seasoned?

Literal Standard Version

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, everyone of you who does not take leave of all that he himself has, is not able to be My disciple.

35It is neither fit for land nor for manure—they cast it outside. He who is having ears to hear—let him hear.”

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Cross References

Mark 9:49for everyone will be salted with fire, and every sacrifice will be salted with salt.

Hebrews 2:4God also bearing joint-witness both with signs and wonders, and manifold powers, and distributions of the Holy Spirit, according to His 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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