Bible Verses about Salt

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Compiled by The BibleStudyTools Staff on 09/19/2019

What does the Bible say about Salt? Discover the top Bible verses about Salt from the Old and New Testaments. Read through the biblical references of Salt to learn more about its meaning and significance. May you find some insight from these related scripture quotes!

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Matthew 5:13

13 “You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot.
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Mark 9:50

50 “Salt is good, but if it loses its saltiness, how can you make it salty again? Have salt among yourselves, and be at peace with each other.”
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Mark 9:49

49 Everyone will be salted with fire.
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Colossians 4:6

6 Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.
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Matthew 5:13-16

Be Amazing - Matthew 5:13-16
13 “You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot.
14 “You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden.
15 Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house.
16 In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.
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Mark 9:49-50

49 Everyone will be salted with fire.
50 “Salt is good, but if it loses its saltiness, how can you make it salty again? Have salt among yourselves, and be at peace with each other.”
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Luke 14:34-35

34 “Salt is good, but if it loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again?
35 It is fit neither for the soil nor for the manure pile; it is thrown out. “Whoever has ears to hear, let them hear.”
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Luke 14:34

34 “Salt is good, but if it loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again?
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James 3:12

12 My brothers and sisters, can a fig tree bear olives, or a grapevine bear figs? Neither can a salt spring produce fresh water.
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James 3:11

11 Can both fresh water and salt water flow from the same spring?
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Leviticus 2:13

13 Season all your grain offerings with salt. Do not leave the salt of the covenant of your God out of your grain offerings; add salt to all your offerings.
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Numbers 18:19

19 Whatever is set aside from the holy offerings the Israelites present to the LORD I give to you and your sons and daughters as your perpetual share. It is an everlasting covenant of salt before the LORD for both you and your offspring.”
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Genesis 19:26

26 But Lot’s wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.
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Ezekiel 16:4

4 On the day you were born your cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water to make you clean, nor were you rubbed with salt or wrapped in cloths.
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Ezekiel 43:24

24 You are to offer them before the LORD, and the priests are to sprinkle salt on them and sacrifice them as a burnt offering to the LORD.
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Zephaniah 2:9

9 Therefore, as surely as I live,” declares the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, “surely Moab will become like Sodom, the Ammonites like Gomorrah— a place of weeds and salt pits, a wasteland forever. The remnant of my people will plunder them; the survivors of my nation will inherit their land.”
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Ezra 6:9

9 Whatever is needed—young bulls, rams, male lambs for burnt offerings to the God of heaven, and wheat, salt, wine and olive oil, as requested by the priests in Jerusalem—must be given them daily without fail,
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1 Chronicles 18:12

12 Abishai son of Zeruiah struck down eighteen thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt.
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Judges 9:45

45 All that day Abimelek pressed his attack against the city until he had captured it and killed its people. Then he destroyed the city and scattered salt over it.
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Joshua 15:62

62 Nibshan, the City of Salt and En Gedi—six towns and their villages.
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Job 6:6

6 Is tasteless food eaten without salt, or is there flavor in the sap of the mallow ?
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2 Chronicles 13:5

5 Don’t you know that the LORD, the God of Israel, has given the kingship of Israel to David and his descendants forever by a covenant of salt?
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Jeremiah 17:6

6 That person will be like a bush in the wastelands; they will not see prosperity when it comes. They will dwell in the parched places of the desert, in a salt land where no one lives.
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Ezra 7:22

22 up to a hundred talents of silver, a hundred cors of wheat, a hundred baths of wine, a hundred baths of olive oil, and salt without limit.
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Ezekiel 47:11

11 But the swamps and marshes will not become fresh; they will be left for salt.
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2 Kings 2:20-21

20 “Bring me a new bowl,” he said, “and put salt in it.” So they brought it to him.
21 Then he went out to the spring and threw the salt into it, saying, “This is what the LORD says: ‘I have healed this water. Never again will it cause death or make the land unproductive.’ ”
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Deuteronomy 29:23

23 The whole land will be a burning waste of salt and sulfur—nothing planted, nothing sprouting, no vegetation growing on it. It will be like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboyim, which the LORD overthrew in fierce anger.
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2 Samuel 8:13

13 And David became famous after he returned from striking down eighteen thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt.
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2 Kings 14:7

7 He was the one who defeated ten thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt and captured Sela in battle, calling it Joktheel, the name it has to this day.
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Ezekiel 47:8

8 He said to me, “This water flows toward the eastern region and goes down into the Arabah, where it enters the Dead Sea. When it empties into the sea, the salty water there becomes fresh.
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2 Kings 2:20

20 “Bring me a new bowl,” he said, “and put salt in it.” So they brought it to him.
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1 Samuel 8:13

13 He will take your daughters to be perfumers and cooks and bakers.
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1 Kings 14:7

7 Go, tell Jeroboam that this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘I raised you up from among the people and appointed you ruler over my people Israel.
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1 Chronicles 13:5

5 So David assembled all Israel, from the Shihor River in Egypt to Lebo Hamath, to bring the ark of God from Kiriath Jearim.
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Ezra 4:14

14 Now since we are under obligation to the palace and it is not proper for us to see the king dishonored, we are sending this message to inform the king,
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Numbers 18:2

2 Bring your fellow Levites from your ancestral tribe to join you and assist you when you and your sons minister before the tent of the covenant law.
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Genesis 14:3

3 All these latter kings joined forces in the Valley of Siddim (that is, the Dead Sea Valley).
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Numbers 34:12

12 Then the boundary will go down along the Jordan and end at the Dead Sea. “ ‘This will be your land, with its boundaries on every side.’ ”
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1 Samuel 8:2

2 The name of his firstborn was Joel and the name of his second was Abijah, and they served at Beersheba.
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1 Chronicles 25:11

11 the fourth to Izri, his sons and relatives, 12
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Deuteronomy 3:17

17 Its western border was the Jordan in the Arabah, from Kinnereth to the Sea of the Arabah (that is, the Dead Sea), below the slopes of Pisgah.
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Isaiah 30:24

24 The oxen and donkeys that work the soil will eat fodder and mash, spread out with fork and shovel.
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Jude 1:24

24 To him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you before his glorious presence without fault and with great joy—
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1 Kings 14:1

1 At that time Abijah son of Jeroboam became ill,
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1 Chronicles 18:2

2 David also defeated the Moabites, and they became subject to him and brought him tribute.
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1 Samuel 8:1

1 When Samuel grew old, he appointed his sons as Israel’s leaders.
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1 Kings 14:2

2 and Jeroboam said to his wife, “Go, disguise yourself, so you won’t be recognized as the wife of Jeroboam. Then go to Shiloh. Ahijah the prophet is there—the one who told me I would be king over this people.
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Joshua 3:16

16 the water from upstream stopped flowing. It piled up in a heap a great distance away, at a town called Adam in the vicinity of Zarethan, while the water flowing down to the Sea of the Arabah (that is, the Dead Sea) was completely cut off. So the people crossed over opposite Jericho.
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Joshua 12:3

3 He also ruled over the eastern Arabah from the Sea of Galilee to the Sea of the Arabah (that is, the Dead Sea), to Beth Jeshimoth, and then southward below the slopes of Pisgah.
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