Luke 14:34

Therefore salt is good: but if the salt may lose its savor, with what shall it be salted?

1902 William Baxter Godbey NT

In The King James Version

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

In Context

33Thus then every one of you who does not consecrate all his possessions, is not able to be my disciple.

35It is neither good for the land nor for excrement: they cast it out. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.

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Cross References

Mark 9:49For every one shall be salted with fire.

Hebrews 2:4God at the same time witnessing, by signs and indeed by wonders, and various dynamites, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, 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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