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Luke 14:34

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¶ Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned?
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  1. Matthew 5:13Rank 1 from verse 34
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    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.

  2. Colossians 4:6Rank 2 from verse 34
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    6Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.

  3. Mark 9:49–50Rank 3 from verse 34
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    49For every one shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt.

    50Salt 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.

  4. Hebrews 2:4–8Rank 4 from verse 34
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    4God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will?

    5For unto the angels hath he not put in subjection the world to come, whereof we speak.

    6But one in a certain place testified, saying, What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man, that thou visitest him?

    7Thou madest him a little lower than the angels; thou crownedst him with glory and honour, and didst set him over the works of thy hands:

    8Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet. For in that he put all in subjection under him, he left nothing that is not put under him. But now we see not yet all things put under him.

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Luke 14:34

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good

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Sense 1: Right, morally upright, beneficial, pleasing, useful, suitable, sound, favourable, or excellent. Sense 2: A good thing, benefit, welfare, possession, or goods. Sense 3: In ‘make good,’ to repair, repay, fulfil, establish, or prove.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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but

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Sense 1: However; marking contrast or qualification. Sense 2: Except or unless; excluding all others or alternatives. Sense 3: Only; no more than what follows.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828

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lost

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Sense 1: Missing, strayed, or unable to be found. Sense 2: Ruined, destroyed, or deprived of what was possessed.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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savour

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A taste, flavour, smell, scent, or a quality, character, reputation, or influence compared to one.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893

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shall

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An auxiliary verb expressing future action, intention, promise, command, requirement, or determination.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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seasoned

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of season, meaning to prepare, mature, or make suitable.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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33So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple.

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

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35It is neither fit for the land, nor yet for the dunghill; but men cast it out. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.

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