Bible Verses About Salt
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Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his saltness, wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another.
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Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned?
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.
And every oblation of thy meat offering shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meat offering: with all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt.
Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
All the heave offerings of the holy things, which the children of Israel offer unto the Lord, have I given thee, and thy sons and thy daughters with thee, by a statute for ever: it is a covenant of salt for ever before the Lord unto thee and to thy seed with thee.
For every one shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt.
And he said, Bring me a new cruse, and put salt therein. And they brought it to him.
But the miry places thereof and the marishes thereof shall not be healed; they shall be given to salt.
And thou shalt offer them before the Lord, and the priests shall cast salt upon them, and they shall offer them up for a burnt offering unto the Lord.
Ought ye not to know that the Lord God of Israel gave the kingdom over Israel to David for ever, even to him and to his sons by a covenant of salt?
And he went forth unto the spring of the waters, and cast the salt in there, and said, Thus saith the Lord, I have healed these waters; there shall not be from thence any more death or barren land.
But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
And spice, and oil for the light, and for the anointing oil, and for the sweet incense.
And Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took the city, and slew the people that was therein, and beat down the city, and sowed it with salt.
They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
Unto an hundred talents of silver, and to an hundred measures of wheat, and to an hundred baths of wine, and to an hundred baths of oil, and salt without prescribing how much.
And whosoever will not receive you, when ye go out of that city, shake off the very dust from your feet for a testimony against them.
For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish:
Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
Thou shalt not eat it; thou shalt pour it upon the earth as water.
For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.
For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.
My meat also which I gave thee, fine flour, and oil, and honey, wherewith I fed thee, thou hast even set it before them for a sweet savour: and thus it was, saith the Lord God.
Thou shalt sow, but thou shalt not reap; thou shalt tread the olives, but thou shalt not anoint thee with oil; and sweet wine, but shalt not drink wine.
And oil for the light, and spices for anointing oil, and for the sweet incense,
To the one we are the savour of death unto death; and to the other the savour of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?
All these were joined together in the vale of Siddim, which is the salt sea.
And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, when ye depart out of that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet.
He maketh the deep to boil like a pot: he maketh the sea like a pot of ointment.
And Nibshan, and the city of Salt, and Enβgedi; six cities with their villages.
And that which they have need of, both young bullocks, and rams, and lambs, for the burnt offerings of the God of heaven, wheat, salt, wine, and oil, according to the appointment of the priests which are at Jerusalem, let it be given them day by day without fail:
And some of the sons of the priests made the ointment of the spices.
Now therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink not wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing:
And the people went about, and gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in a mortar, and baked it in pans, and made cakes of it: and the taste of it was as the taste of fresh oil.
And thou shalt sanctify them, that they may be most holy: whatsoever toucheth them shall be holy.
And ye shall serve the Lord your God, and he shall bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee.
It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.
For meat destroy not the work of God. All things indeed are pure; but it is evil for that man who eateth with offence.
Divers weights are an abomination unto the Lord; and a false balance is not good.
With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself unsavoury.
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