Mat 5:13, 12:31-32, Joh 15:6, Heb 10:26, 2Pe 2:20-21 | ESV | STEP | 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 .

f[See ver. 31 above]

g[Eph. 1:21]

hSee ver. 2

i Matt. 13:40-42; [Ezek. 15:4]

j Num. 15:30; Deut. 17:12

k ch. 6:4; 2 Pet. 2:20, 21

l[ch. 6:6; 1 John 5:16]

m ver. 18

nSee ch. 1:2

o Matt. 12:45

p[Ezek. 18:24; Luke 12:47; Heb. 6:4-6; 10:26, 27; James 4:17]

q Rom. 7:12

Matthew 5:13

Salt and Light

13 “You are the salt of the earth, ^abut 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 12:31-32

31 ^bTherefore I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven people, but ^cthe blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven. 32 And whoever speaks a word ^dagainst the Son of Man ^ewill be forgiven, but ^fwhoever speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in ^gthis age or in the age to come.

John 15:6

6 If anyone does not abide in me ^hhe is thrown away like a branch and withers; ⁱand the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned.

Hebrews 10:26

26 For ^jif we go on sinning deliberately ^kafter receiving the knowledge of the truth, ^lthere no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,

2 Peter 2:20-21

20 For if, ^mafter they have escaped the defilements of the world ⁿthrough the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, ^othe last state has become worse for them than the first. 21 For ^pit would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than after knowing it to turn back from ^qthe holy commandment delivered to them.