Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.

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.

How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!

How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?

Doth not the ear try words? and the mouth taste his meat?

I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.

For the ear trieth words, as the mouth tasteth meat.

Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?

For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come,

Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned?