Matthew 5:13 “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.
Colossians 4:6 Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.
Mark 9:49-50 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.”
Luke 14:34-35 “Salt is good, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is of no use
2 Peter 2:20-21 For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.
Salt was used to preserve meats and to slow decay. Christians should have a preserving influence on their culture. Salt must keep its “saltiness” to be of any value. When it is no good as salt, it is trampled under foot. In the same way, too many Christians lose their “flavor” and become good for nothing.
To the Church in Ephesus – But I have this against you: you have abandoned the love you had at first.
To the Church in Pergamum – You have some there who hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to place a stumbling block in front of the Israelites.
To the Church in Thyatira – You tolerate the woman Jezebel and teaches and deceives my servants to commit sexual immorality.
To the Church in Sardis – I know your works; you have a reputation for being alive, but you are dead
To the Church in Laodicea – I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot
Let anyone who has ears to hear listen to what the spirit says to the Churches. Don’t be salt that loses its flavor.