Luke 14:34

Salt — Every Christian, but more eminently every minister. Matthew 5:13; Mark 9:50.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See the Matthew 5:13 note; Mark 9:49-50 notes. Salt is good - It is useful. It is good to preserve life and health, and to keep from putref...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

(7) Salt [is] good: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned? (7) The disciples of Christ must be wise, both for themsel...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Discipleship and its Cost. The passage is a reminder that, despite the universality of the Kingdom, the number of its true subjects is small. To th...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Salt , &c. See note on Matthew 5:13 . if , &c.. contingent assumption. App-118. lost his savour . become tasteless. Compare Matthew 5:...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned? Salt is good - See on Matthew 5:13 (note), and Mark 9:50 (n...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned? Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his savour ... He...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Dropsical Man. The Great Supper. Divers Sayings and Parables 1-6. The sabbath question again. The man with the dropsy healed (peculiar to Lk)....
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

That we must give up all to follow Christ, and count the cost before we do so. The two parables of the Rash Builder ( Luke 14:28-30 ) and the Rash...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Salt is good. — The words are all but identical with those of Matthew 5:13 , and resemble those of Mark 9:50 . (See Notes on those passages.) The...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

the Cost of Discipleship Luke 14:25-35 Here we have our Lord's use of the winnowing-fan. Amid the teeming crowds He knew that there were many l...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Nothing escaped the notice of Jesus. He saw the guests in the house, and their method of procedure in seeking the chief seats. As He watched, He enun...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple. For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Salt is good ,.... Matthew 5:13 , Mark 10:50 .
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned? Ver. 34. Salt is good ] This was a sentence much in our Sav...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Salt is good If you are not my disciples indeed, your outward profession will be very insignificant: for, though salt in general is a good thing, a...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

EATING IN THE PHARISEE'S HOUSE (vs.1-14) This chapter shows the heart of God in seeking man, yet also man in thorough contrast and opposition to...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Necessity of Self-denial. 25 And there went great multitudes with him: and he...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Ver. 34,35. See Poole on " Matthew 5:13 " . See Poole on " Mark 9:50 " , where we met with the most of what we have in these verses. By salt in t...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Call To Discipleship (14:25-35). Luke closes this section off as he opened it by showing Jesus as challenging His disciples and His would be d...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

“Salt therefore is good, but if even the salt has lost its savour (literally ‘if it become foolish'), with what shall it be seasoned. It is fit neith...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES Luke 14:25 . There went with Him .— I.e. , journeyed with Him; many, if not most, of them being on their way to one of the feasts...
Sermon Bible Commentary

Luke 14:34 I. What is it in the spiritual life which answers to the influence of salt in the natural life? I answer: A certain deep, secret power...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Luke 14:25 . And there went great multitudes with him: During at least a part of his earthly ministry, Christ was very popular. The people crowde...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Luke 14:3 . Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath day. When customs are good, let us keep them; but when they are burthensome and inconsistent, the...
The Biblical Illustrator

Salt is good Salt that is genuine, and salt that is saltless Among the substances that enter into the composition of this globe of earth, salt...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Luke 14:1-42 The Pharisee ' s feast on a sabbath day. The healing of the sick with dropsy. Luke 14:1 And it came to pa...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Salt is good; but if the salt have lost its savor, wherewith. shall it be seasoned?
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

A final warning:
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Colossians 4:6 ; Hebrews 2:4-8 ; Mark 9:49 ; Mark 9:50 ; Matthew 5:13

³⁴ Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned?

Related Commentaries of Luke 14:34

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sermon Bible Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Luke 14:34