What Does the Bible Say About Pepper?

Matthew 5:13 ESV / 29 helpful votes

“You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under people's feet.

Mark 9:50 ESV / 23 helpful votes

Salt is good, but if the salt has lost its saltiness, how will you make it salty again? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.”

Luke 14:34-35 ESV / 21 helpful votes

“Salt is good, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is of no use either for the soil or for the manure pile. It is thrown away. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”

Colossians 4:6 ESV / 18 helpful votes

Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.

Leviticus 2:13 ESV / 18 helpful votes

You shall season all your grain offerings with salt. You shall not let the salt of the covenant with your God be missing from your grain offering; with all your offerings you shall offer salt.

Exodus 30:34-38 ESV / 13 helpful votes

The Lord said to Moses, “Take sweet spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum, sweet spices with pure frankincense (of each shall there be an equal part), and make an incense blended as by the perfumer, seasoned with salt, pure and holy. You shall beat some of it very small, and put part of it before the testimony in the tent of meeting where I shall meet with you. It shall be most holy for you. And the incense that you shall make according to its composition, you shall not make for yourselves. It shall be for you holy to the Lord. Whoever makes any like it to use as perfume shall be cut off from his people.”

Numbers 18:19 ESV / 12 helpful votes

All the holy contributions that the people of Israel present to the Lord I give to you, and to your sons and daughters with you, as a perpetual due. It is a covenant of salt forever before the Lord for you and for your offspring with you.”

Mark 9:49-50 ESV / 10 helpful votes

For everyone will be salted with fire. Salt is good, but if the salt has lost its saltiness, how will you make it salty again? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.”

2 Chronicles 13:5 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Ought you not to know that the Lord God of Israel gave the kingship over Israel forever to David and his sons by a covenant of salt?

Luke 14:34 ESV / 9 helpful votes

“Salt is good, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored?

Mark 9:49 ESV / 8 helpful votes

For everyone will be salted with fire.

Ezekiel 16:4 ESV / 8 helpful votes

And as for your birth, on the day you were born your cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water to cleanse you, nor rubbed with salt, nor wrapped in swaddling cloths.

Job 6:6 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Can that which is tasteless be eaten without salt, or is there any taste in the juice of the mallow?

Ezra 6:9 ESV / 8 helpful votes

And whatever is needed—bulls, rams, or sheep for burnt offerings to the God of heaven, wheat, salt, wine, or oil, as the priests at Jerusalem require—let that be given to them day by day without fail,

Ezra 7:22 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Up to 100 talents of silver, 100 cors of wheat, 100 baths of wine, 100 baths of oil, and salt without prescribing how much.

Matthew 5:13-16 ESV / 6 helpful votes

“You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under people's feet. “You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do people light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a stand, and it gives light to all in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.

Revelation 18:13 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Cinnamon, spice, incense, myrrh, frankincense, wine, oil, fine flour, wheat, cattle and sheep, horses and chariots, and slaves, that is, human souls.

Revelation 8:3-5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And another angel came and stood at the altar with a golden censer, and he was given much incense to offer with the prayers of all the saints on the golden altar before the throne, and the smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, rose before God from the hand of the angel. Then the angel took the censer and filled it with fire from the altar and threw it on the earth, and there were peals of thunder, rumblings, flashes of lightning, and an earthquake.

James 3:11-12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Does a spring pour forth from the same opening both fresh and salt water? Can a fig tree, my brothers, bear olives, or a grapevine produce figs? Neither can a salt pond yield fresh water.

Malachi 3:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. And thereby put me to the test, says the Lord of hosts, if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour down for you a blessing until there is no more need.

Ezekiel 43:24 ESV / 4 helpful votes

You shall present them before the Lord, and the priests shall sprinkle salt on them and offer them up as a burnt offering to the Lord.

Psalm 141:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Let my prayer be counted as incense before you, and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice!

Nehemiah 10:37 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And to bring the first of our dough, and our contributions, the fruit of every tree, the wine and the oil, to the priests, to the chambers of the house of our God; and to bring to the Levites the tithes from our ground, for it is the Levites who collect the tithes in all our towns where we labor.

2 Chronicles 16:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes

They buried him in the tomb that he had cut for himself in the city of David. They laid him on a bier that had been filled with various kinds of spices prepared by the perfumer's art, and they made a very great fire in his honor.

Exodus 30:23-25 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“Take the finest spices: of liquid myrrh 500 shekels, and of sweet-smelling cinnamon half as much, that is, 250, and 250 of aromatic cane, and 500 of cassia, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, and a hin of olive oil. And you shall make of these a sacred anointing oil blended as by the perfumer; it shall be a holy anointing oil.

Zephaniah 2:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Therefore, as I live,” declares the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, “Moab shall become like Sodom, and the Ammonites like Gomorrah, a land possessed by nettles and salt pits, and a waste forever. The remnant of my people shall plunder them, and the survivors of my nation shall possess them.”

2 Kings 14:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

He struck down ten thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt and took Sela by storm, and called it Joktheel, which is its name to this day.

2 Kings 2:20-22 ESV / 3 helpful votes

He said, “Bring me a new bowl, and put salt in it.” So they brought it to him. Then he went to the spring of water and threw salt in it and said, “Thus says the Lord, I have healed this water; from now on neither death nor miscarriage shall come from it.” So the water has been healed to this day, according to the word that Elisha spoke.

Numbers 34:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And the border shall go down to the Jordan, and its limit shall be at the Salt Sea. This shall be your land as defined by its borders all around.”

Genesis 19:26 ESV / 3 helpful votes

But Lot's wife, behind him, looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.

James 3:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Can a fig tree, my brothers, bear olives, or a grapevine produce figs? Neither can a salt pond yield fresh water.

James 3:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Does a spring pour forth from the same opening both fresh and salt water?

James 3:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For we all stumble in many ways. And if anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle his whole body.

Titus 2:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And sound speech that cannot be condemned, so that an opponent may be put to shame, having nothing evil to say about us.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Matthew 6:1-34 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. “Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you. “And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. ...

Matthew 5:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.

Matthew 5:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden.

Matthew 5:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.

Matthew 4:1-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. And after fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. And the tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread.” But he answered, “It is written, “‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’” Then the devil took him to the holy city and set him on the pinnacle of the temple ...

Ezekiel 47:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But its swamps and marshes will not become fresh; they are to be left for salt.

Jeremiah 17:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

He is like a shrub in the desert, and shall not see any good come. He shall dwell in the parched places of the wilderness, in an uninhabited salt land.

Isaiah 30:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And the oxen and the donkeys that work the ground will eat seasoned fodder, which has been winnowed with shovel and fork.

Isaiah 3:1-26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For behold, the Lord God of hosts is taking away from Jerusalem and from Judah support and supply, all support of bread, and all support of water; the mighty man and the soldier, the judge and the prophet, the diviner and the elder, the captain of fifty and the man of rank, the counselor and the skillful magician and the expert in charms. And I will make boys their princes, and infants shall rule over them. And the people will oppress one another, every one his fellow and every one his neighbor; the youth will be insolent to the elder, and the despised to the honorable. ...

Ezra 4:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Now because we eat the salt of the palace and it is not fitting for us to witness the king's dishonor, therefore we send and inform the king,

1 Chronicles 18:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And Abishai, the son of Zeruiah, killed 18,000 Edomites in the Valley of Salt.

1 Chronicles 18:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And he defeated Moab, and the Moabites became servants to David and brought tribute.

1 Chronicles 13:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

So David assembled all Israel from the Nile of Egypt to Lebo-hamath, to bring the ark of God from Kiriath-jearim.

2 Kings 2:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Then he went to the spring of water and threw salt in it and said, “Thus says the Lord, I have healed this water; from now on neither death nor miscarriage shall come from it.”

2 Kings 2:20-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

He said, “Bring me a new bowl, and put salt in it.” So they brought it to him. Then he went to the spring of water and threw salt in it and said, “Thus says the Lord, I have healed this water; from now on neither death nor miscarriage shall come from it.”

2 Kings 2:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

He said, “Bring me a new bowl, and put salt in it.” So they brought it to him.

2 Kings 2:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And the sons of the prophets who were in Bethel came out to Elisha and said to him, “Do you know that today the Lord will take away your master from over you?” And he said, “Yes, I know it; keep quiet.”

2 Samuel 8:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And David made a name for himself when he returned from striking down 18,000 Edomites in the Valley of Salt.

Judges 9:45 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And Abimelech fought against the city all that day. He captured the city and killed the people who were in it, and he razed the city and sowed it with salt.

Joshua 15:62 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Nibshan, the City of Salt, and Engedi: six cities with their villages.

Joshua 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The waters coming down from above stood and rose up in a heap very far away, at Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan, and those flowing down toward the Sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, were completely cut off. And the people passed over opposite Jericho.

Deuteronomy 29:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The whole land burned out with brimstone and salt, nothing sown and nothing growing, where no plant can sprout, an overthrow like that of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, which the Lord overthrew in his anger and wrath—

Deuteronomy 3:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The Arabah also, with the Jordan as the border, from Chinnereth as far as the Sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah on the east.

Numbers 18:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And with you bring your brothers also, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, that they may join you and minister to you while you and your sons with you are before the tent of the testimony.

Genesis 14:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And all these joined forces in the Valley of Siddim (that is, the Salt Sea).

60 Bible Verses about Pepper

Matthew 5:13 ESV / 29 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Mark 9:50 ESV / 23 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 14:34-35 ESV / 21 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Colossians 4:6 ESV / 18 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Leviticus 2:13 ESV / 18 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Exodus 30:34-38 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Numbers 18:19 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Mark 9:49-50 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Chronicles 13:5 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 14:34 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Mark 9:49 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ezekiel 16:4 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Job 6:6 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Matthew 5:13-16 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 18:13 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 8:3-5 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

James 3:11-12 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Malachi 3:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ezekiel 43:24 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 141:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Nehemiah 10:37 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Chronicles 16:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Numbers 34:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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James 3:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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