Luke Chapter 14 verse 34 Holy Bible

ASV Luke 14:34

Salt therefore is good: but if even the salt have lost its savor, wherewith shall it be seasoned?
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BBE Luke 14:34

For salt is good, but if the taste goes from it, of what use is it?
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DARBY Luke 14:34

Salt [then] [is] good, but if the salt also has become savourless, wherewith shall it be seasoned?
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KJV Luke 14:34

Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned?
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WBT Luke 14:34


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WEB Luke 14:34

Salt is good, but if the salt becomes flat and tasteless, with what do you season it?
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YLT Luke 14:34

`The salt `is' good, but if the salt doth become tasteless, with what shall it be seasoned?
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerses 34, 35. - Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned! It is neither fit for the land, nor yet for the dunghill; but men cast it out. Here "salt" stands for the spirit of self-sacrifice, self-renunciation. When in a man, or in a nation, or in a Church, that salt is savourless, then that spirit is dead; there is no hope remaining for the man, for the people, or the Church. The lesson was a general one - it was meant to sink into each listener's heart; but the Master's sad gaze was fixed, as he spoke the sombre truth, on the people of Israel whom he loved, and on the temple of Jerusalem where his glory-presence used to dwell. Men cast it out. Jesus could hear the armed tramp of the Roman legions of the year 70 as they east out his people from their holy land.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(34) Salt is good.--The words are all but identical with those of Matthew 5:13, and resemble those of Mark 9:50. (See Notes on those passages.) They appear now, however, in a very different context, and the train of thought is not at first sight so clear. The common element in all three instances is that salt represents the purifying element in life, the principle of unselfish devotion. Here, the special aspect of that element is self-renunciation. In proportion as that is incomplete, the salt loses its savour. The question, Wherewith shall it be salted? is asked as in the accents of almost hopeless sadness. What other purifying influences can be brought to bear on us when the love of Christ has failed?