Salt and Light

¹³ “You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot.^(A)

⁶ Let your conversation be always full of grace,^(A) seasoned with salt,^(B) so that you may know how to answer everyone.^(C)

³⁴ “Salt is good, but if it loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again?^{(A) 35} It is fit neither for the soil nor for the manure pile; it is thrown out.^(B)

“Whoever has ears to hear, let them hear.”^(C)

⁴⁹ Everyone will be salted^(A) with fire.

⁵⁰ “Salt is good, but if it loses its saltiness, how can you make it salty again?^(B) Have salt among yourselves,^(C) and be at peace with each other.”^(D)

⁴ It is impossible for those who have once been enlightened,^(A) who have tasted the heavenly gift,^(B) who have shared in the Holy Spirit,^{(C) 5} who have tasted the goodness^(D) of the word of God^(E) and the powers of the coming age ⁶ and who have fallen^[a] away, to be brought back to repentance.^(F) To their loss they are crucifying the Son of God^(G) all over again and subjecting him to public disgrace.