Can that which is tasteless be eaten without salt, or is there any taste in the juice of the mallow?
Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.
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.
For it is impossible, in the case of those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, and have shared in the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the age to come,
“Salt is good, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored?
How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth!
for the ear tests words as the palate tastes food.
“I have heard many such things; miserable comforters are you all.
Does not the ear test words as the palate tastes food?
Is there any injustice on my tongue? Cannot my palate discern the cause of calamity?
How forceful are upright words! But what does reproof from you reprove?
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