13 You are to season each of your grain offerings with salt; you must not omit from your grain offering the salt of the covenant(A) with your God. You are to present salt[a] with each of your offerings.

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 2:13 Salt, used as a preservative, is a symbol of the permanence of the covenant.

19 “I give to you and to your sons and daughters all the holy contributions that the Israelites present to the Lord as a permanent statute. It is a permanent covenant of salt(A) before the Lord for you as well as your offspring.”

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49 For everyone will be salted with fire.[a](A)[b] 50 Salt is good, but if the salt should lose its flavor, how can you make it salty?(B) Have salt(C) among yourselves and be at peace(D) with one another.”

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 9:49 Other mss add and every sacrifice will be salted with salt
  2. Mark 9:49 Lv 2:13; Ezk 43:24

Your speech should always be gracious, seasoned with salt,(A) so that you may know how you should answer each person.(B)

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