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Matthew 5:13 KJV
Matthew · chapter 5 · verse 13
Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.Matthew 5:13 · King James Version
Matthew 5:13 in context
11Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
12Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
13Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.
14Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.
15Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.
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- thenceforthetiyet, still, of time, of a thing which went on formerly, whereas now a different state of…G2089 →
- wherewithenin, by, with etcG1722 →
- wherewithtiswho, which, whatG5101 →
- nothingoudeisno one, nothingG3762 →
- savourmōrainōto be foolish, to act foolishly, to make foolish, to prove a person or a thing foolish…G3471 →
- saltedhalizōto salt, season with salt, sprinkle with saltG233 →
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Christ had lately called his disciples, and told them that they should be fishers of men; here he tells them further what he designed them to be - the salt of the earth, and lights of the world, that they might be indeed what it was expected they should be. I. Ye are the salt of the earth.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 13-16