What Does the Bible Say About Salt Of The Earth?

Colossians 4:6 ESV / 106 helpful votes

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

Matthew 5:13 ESV / 100 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.

Matthew 5:13-16 ESV / 77 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.

Leviticus 2:13 ESV / 69 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.

2 Kings 2:21 ESV / 65 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.”

Mark 9:49-50 ESV / 52 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.”

Mark 9:50 ESV / 51 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 ESV / 41 helpful votes

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

Ezekiel 16:4 ESV / 38 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.

Romans 12:1 ESV / 32 helpful votes

I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.

Mark 9:49 ESV / 31 helpful votes

For everyone will be salted with fire.

Numbers 18:19 ESV / 31 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.”

Genesis 19:26 ESV / 26 helpful votes

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

2 Kings 2:20 ESV / 24 helpful votes

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

Joshua 3:16 ESV / 22 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.

Matthew 28:19 ESV / 20 helpful votes

Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

Zephaniah 2:9 ESV / 20 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 Samuel 8:13 ESV / 20 helpful votes

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

Ezekiel 43:24 ESV / 19 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.

2 Kings 14:7 ESV / 18 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.

Joshua 12:3 ESV / 18 helpful votes

And the Arabah to the Sea of Chinneroth eastward, and in the direction of Beth-jeshimoth, to the Sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, southward to the foot of the slopes of Pisgah;

Ezra 4:14 ESV / 16 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,

2 Chronicles 13:5 ESV / 16 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?

Hebrews 10:24 ESV / 15 helpful votes

And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works,

Luke 14:35 ESV / 15 helpful votes

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.”

Jeremiah 17:5-6 ESV / 15 helpful votes

Thus says the Lord: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, whose heart turns away from the Lord. 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.

Joshua 15:62 ESV / 15 helpful votes

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

Numbers 34:12 ESV / 14 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 14:3 ESV / 14 helpful votes

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

Matthew 5:1 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Seeing the crowds, he went up on the mountain, and when he sat down, his disciples came to him.

Matthew 5:1-48 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Seeing the crowds, he went up on the mountain, and when he sat down, his disciples came to him. And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying: “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. ...

Matthew 16:18 ESV / 11 helpful votes

And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

Job 6:6 ESV / 9 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,

Joshua 15:2 ESV / 8 helpful votes

And their south boundary ran from the end of the Salt Sea, from the bay that faces southward.

Genesis 2:5 ESV / 7 helpful votes

When no bush of the field was yet in the land and no small plant of the field had yet sprung up—for the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the land, and there was no man to work the ground,

John 3:16-17 ESV / 6 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.

Mark 9:47 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into hell,

38 Bible Verses about Salt Of The Earth

Colossians 4:6 ESV / 106 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 5:13 ESV / 100 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 5:13-16 ESV / 77 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Leviticus 2:13 ESV / 69 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Kings 2:21 ESV / 65 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Mark 9:49-50 ESV / 52 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Luke 14:34 ESV / 41 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ezekiel 16:4 ESV / 38 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 12:1 ESV / 32 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Mark 9:49 ESV / 31 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Numbers 18:19 ESV / 31 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 19:26 ESV / 26 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Kings 2:20 ESV / 24 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Joshua 3:16 ESV / 22 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 28:19 ESV / 20 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Zephaniah 2:9 ESV / 20 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Samuel 8:13 ESV / 20 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ezekiel 43:24 ESV / 19 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Kings 14:7 ESV / 18 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Joshua 12:3 ESV / 18 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ezra 4:14 ESV / 16 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Hebrews 10:24 ESV / 15 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 14:35 ESV / 15 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Jeremiah 17:5-6 ESV / 15 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Joshua 15:62 ESV / 15 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Numbers 34:12 ESV / 14 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 14:3 ESV / 14 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 5:1 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 5:1-48 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 16:18 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Job 6:6 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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John 3:16-17 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Mark 9:47 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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