Bible Verses About Salt
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for salt, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 6,315 votes, led by Matthew 5:13. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Salt
Matthew 5:13547 votes
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.
Mark 9:50422 votes
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.
Colossians 4:6393 votes
Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
Leviticus 2:13336 votes
And every oblation of thy meat offering shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meat offering: with all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt.
Luke 14:34-35299 votes
Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned?
Numbers 18:19266 votes
All the heave offerings of the holy things, which the children of Israel offer unto the Lord, have I given thee, and thy sons and thy daughters with thee, by a statute for ever: it is a covenant of salt for ever before the Lord unto thee and to thy seed with thee.
2 Chronicles 13:5226 votes
Ought ye not to know that the Lord God of Israel gave the kingdom over Israel to David for ever, even to him and to his sons by a covenant of salt?
Job 6:6221 votes
Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
Matthew 5:13-16218 votes
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.
Ezekiel 16:4217 votes
And as for thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water to supple thee; thou wast not salted at all, nor swaddled at all.
Mark 9:49197 votes
For every one shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt.
Ezra 6:9191 votes
And that which they have need of, both young bullocks, and rams, and lambs, for the burnt offerings of the God of heaven, wheat, salt, wine, and oil, according to the appointment of the priests which are at Jerusalem, let it be given them day by day without fail:
2 Kings 2:20-22176 votes
And he said, Bring me a new cruse, and put salt therein. And they brought it to him.
Genesis 19:26163 votes
But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
Luke 14:34146 votes
Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned?
Mark 9:49-50117 votes
For every one shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt.
Ezekiel 43:24110 votes
And thou shalt offer them before the Lord, and the priests shall cast salt upon them, and they shall offer them up for a burnt offering unto the Lord.
2 Kings 2:20-21102 votes
And he said, Bring me a new cruse, and put salt therein. And they brought it to him.
2 Kings 2:2198 votes
And he went forth unto the spring of the waters, and cast the salt in there, and said, Thus saith the Lord, I have healed these waters; there shall not be from thence any more death or barren land.
Judges 9:4591 votes
And Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took the city, and slew the people that was therein, and beat down the city, and sowed it with salt.
Exodus 30:3586 votes
And thou shalt make it a perfume, a confection after the art of the apothecary, tempered together, pure and holy:
Zephaniah 2:969 votes
Therefore as I live, saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even the breeding of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them.
2 Kings 2:2067 votes
And he said, Bring me a new cruse, and put salt therein. And they brought it to him.
2 Kings 14:763 votes
He slew of Edom in the valley of salt ten thousand, and took Selah by war, and called the name of it Joktheel unto this day.
Numbers 34:1261 votes
And the border shall go down to Jordan, and the goings out of it shall be at the salt sea: this shall be your land with the coasts thereof round about.
What does the Bible say about salt?
Readers most often cite Matthew 5:13 on the subject of salt. Across 6,315 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Mark 9:50, Colossians 4:6, Leviticus 2:13. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.