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Luke 14:34
For salt is good, but if the taste goes from it, of what use is it?
Luke 14:34 · Bible in Basic English
Luke 14:34 in other translations
Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned?
Salt is good, but if the salt loses its savor, with what will it be seasoned?
“Salt is good, but if the salt becomes flat and tasteless, with what do you season it?
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In context
31 Or what king, going to war with another king, will not first take thought if he will be strong enough, with ten thousand men, to keep off him who comes against him with twenty thousand?
32 Or while the other is still a great distance away, he sends representatives requesting conditions of peace.
33 And so whoever is not ready to give up all he has may not be my disciple.
34 For salt is good, but if the taste goes from it, of what use is it?
35 It is no good for the land or for the place of waste; no one has a use for it. He who has ears, let him give ear.
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