Luke 14:34
Therefore, melach (salt) is tov; but if even melach should become tasteless, with what will it be seasoned?
Orthodox Jewish Bible
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, none of you can become my talmid if you do not renounce all your [idolatrous] holdings.
Cross References
Mark 9:49For everyone will have eish as his melach (salt). + 9:49 Lv 2:13
Hebrews 2:4While Hashem gave solemn eidus (testimony) through otot u'moftim (signs and wonders) and nifla'ot rabbot (many miracles) and matanot (gifts) of the Ruach Hakodesh distributed according to the ratzon Hashem?
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 →