Devine Scripture

Matthew 5:13

Matthew chapter 5 · verse 13 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost its savor, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out and trodden under foot of men.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost its savor, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out and trodden under foot of men.

Context

v.12Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets that were before you.

v.13This passage

v.14Ye are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hid.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Mark 9:49

    For every one shall be salted with fire.

  • Colossians 4:6

    Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer each one.

  • Leviticus 2:13

    And every oblation of thy meal-offering shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meal-offering: with all thine oblations thou shalt offer salt.

  • Hebrews 6:4

    For as touching those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit,

  • Luke 14:34

    Salt therefore is good: but if even the salt have lost its savor, wherewith shall it be seasoned?

  • 2 Peter 2:20

    For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein and overcome, the last state is become worse with them than the first.