Luke 14:34
Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned?
KJV
Καλὸν οὖν τὸ ἅλα· ἐὰν δὲ καὶ τὸ ἅλα μωρανθῇ, ἐν τίνι ἀρτυθήσεται;
Greek NT
Bonum est sal : si autem sal evanuerit, in quo condietur ?
Vulgate
Salt therefore is good: but if even the salt have lost its savor, wherewith shall it be seasoned?
ASV
Salt is good. But if the salt shall lose its savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned?
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
11 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
καλός
kalos
adjective · 100×
μωραίνω
moraino
verb · 4×
οὖν
oun
conjunction · 489×
τίς
tis
interrogative_pronoun · 533×
ἀρτύω
artuo
verb · 3×
ἅλας
alas
noun · 8×
ἐάν
ean
conditional · 333×
ἐν
en
preposition · 2743×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
Textual variants
2 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
trivial
SBLGNT: οὖν | WH/Treg/NIV: οὖν
- οὖν — SBLGNT
- οὖν — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
source: sblgnt-apparatus
trivial
SBLGNT: καὶ | WH/Treg/NIV: καὶ
- καὶ — SBLGNT
- καὶ — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
source: sblgnt-apparatus
Historic Christian voices
2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- Col 4:6 — Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
- Ezek 15:3 — Shall wood be taken thereof to do any work? or will men take a pin of it to hang any vessel thereon?
- Job 6:6 — Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
- Mark 9:49 — For every one shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt.
- Mark 9:50 — Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his saltness, wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another.
- Matt 5:13 — Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.
- Matt 5:13 — Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.