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Top 25 Bible Verses About Salt (ESV)

This is a hand-curated and ranked list of 25 of the most relevant Bible verses about Salt (ESV). Verses are ranked by number of votes.

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Matthew 5:13

#1
165 votes

13 “You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under people’s feet.

Colossians 4:6

#2
126 votes

Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.

Mark 9:50

#3
124 votes

50 Salt is good, but if the salt has lost its saltiness, how will you make it salty again? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.”

Matthew 5:13-16

#4
100 votes

13 “You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under people’s feet.

14 “You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. 15 Nor do people light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a stand, and it gives light to all in the house. 16 In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.

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Leviticus 2:13

#6
95 votes

13 You shall season all your grain offerings with salt. You shall not let the salt of the covenant with your God be missing from your grain offering; with all your offerings you shall offer salt.

Luke 14:34-35

#7
75 votes

34 “Salt is good, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? 35 It is of no use either for the soil or for the manure pile. It is thrown away. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”

Mark 9:49

#8
73 votes

49 For everyone will be salted with fire.

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Numbers 18:19

#10
70 votes

19 All the holy contributions that the people of Israel present to the LORD I give to you, and to your sons and daughters with you, as a perpetual due. It is a covenant of salt forever before the LORD for you and for your offspring with you.”

Genesis 19:26

#11
70 votes

26 But Lot’s wife, behind him, looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.

2 Kings 2:20-22

#12
67 votes

20 He said, “Bring me a new bowl, and put salt in it.” So they brought it to him. 21 Then he went to the spring of water and threw salt in it and said, “Thus says the LORD, I have healed this water; from now on neither death nor miscarriage shall come from it.” 22 So the water has been healed to this day, according to the word that Elisha spoke.

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2 Chronicles 13:5

#14
58 votes

Ought you not to know that the LORD God of Israel gave the kingship over Israel forever to David and his sons by a covenant of salt?

Luke 14:34

#15
53 votes

34 “Salt is good, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored?

Ezekiel 43:24

#16
52 votes

24 You shall present them before the LORD, and the priests shall sprinkle salt on them and offer them up as a burnt offering to the LORD.

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2 Kings 2:21

#18
50 votes

21 Then he went to the spring of water and threw salt in it and said, “Thus says the LORD, I have healed this water; from now on neither death nor miscarriage shall come from it.”

Ezra 6:9

#19
47 votes

And whatever is needed—bulls, rams, or sheep for burnt offerings to the God of heaven, wheat, salt, wine, or oil, as the priests at Jerusalem require—let that be given to them day by day without fail,

Job 6:6

#20
46 votes

  Can that which is tasteless be eaten without salt,
    or is there any taste in the juice of the mallow?

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Mark 9:49-50

#22
43 votes

49 For everyone will be salted with fire. 50 Salt is good, but if the salt has lost its saltiness, how will you make it salty again? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.”

Ezekiel 16:4

#23
43 votes

And as for your birth, on the day you were born your cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water to cleanse you, nor rubbed with salt, nor wrapped in swaddling cloths.

Zephaniah 2:9

#24
34 votes

  Therefore, as I live,” declares the LORD of hosts,
    the God of Israel,
  “Moab shall become like Sodom,
    and the Ammonites like Gomorrah,
  a land possessed by nettles and salt pits,
    and a waste forever.
  The remnant of my people shall plunder them,
    and the survivors of my nation shall possess them.”

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2 Kings 2:20

#26
32 votes

20 He said, “Bring me a new bowl, and put salt in it.” So they brought it to him.

2 Kings 14:7

#27
30 votes

He struck down ten thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt and took Sela by storm, and called it Joktheel, which is its name to this day.

Numbers 34:12

#28
30 votes

12 And the border shall go down to the Jordan, and its limit shall be at the Salt Sea. This shall be your land as defined by its borders all around.”

Genesis 14:3

#29
28 votes

And all these joined forces in the Valley of Siddim (that is, the Salt Sea).

Joshua 15:62

#30
26 votes

62 Nibshan, the City of Salt, and Engedi: six cities with their villages.

James 3:11

#31
20 votes

11 Does a spring pour forth from the same opening both fresh and salt water?

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