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About Salt

34 “Salt is good, but if salt has lost its taste, how can its saltiness be restored?[a](A)

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  1. 14.34 Or how can it be used for seasoning?

Salt and Light

13 “You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how can its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything but is thrown out and trampled under foot.(A)

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Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer everyone.(A)

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49 “For everyone will be salted with fire.[a](A) 50 Salt is good, but if salt has lost its saltiness, how can you season it?[b] Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.”(B)

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  1. 9.49 Other ancient authorities add or substitute and every sacrifice will be salted with salt
  2. 9.50 Or how can you restore its saltiness?

while God added his testimony by signs and wonders and various miracles and by gifts of the Holy Spirit, distributed according to his will.(A)

Exaltation through Abasement

Now God[a] did not subject the coming world, about which we are speaking, to angels.(B) But someone has testified somewhere,

“What are humans that you are mindful of them[b]
    or mortals that you care for them?[c](C)
You have made them for a little while lower[d] than the angels;
    you have crowned them with glory and honor,[e]
    subjecting all things under their feet.”

Now in subjecting all things to them, God[f] left nothing outside their control. As it is, we do not yet see everything in subjection to them,(D)

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  1. 2.5 Gk he
  2. 2.6 Gk What is man that you are mindful of him?
  3. 2.6 Gk or the son of man that you care for him? In the Hebrew of Psalm 8.4–6 both man and son of man refer to all humankind
  4. 2.7 Or them only a little lower
  5. 2.7 Other ancient authorities add and set them over the works of your hands
  6. 2.8 Gk he