Luke 14:34 Meaning and Explanation
“Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned?”
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What Does Luke 14:34 Mean?
Jesus seals the teaching with a proverb he used in other settings as well (Matthew 5:13; Mark 9:50). Salt is good — it seasons and preserves — but its whole worth lies in its distinctive sharpness. Salt that has lost that bite cannot be salted; nothing remains to restore it.
The saying presses the cost-counting home. A disciple without wholehearted devotion is like savorless salt: the appearance remains, the purpose is gone. What Christ asks of his followers — first love, cross-bearing, open hands — is not an extra for the zealous; it is the savor itself, the very thing that makes a disciple a disciple and a blessing to the earth.
Luke 14:34 in the Original Language
moraino (μωραίνω), 'lost his savour' -- to become insipid or flat; the root is the same word that means foolish.
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What does Luke 14:34 mean?
Salt is good, Jesus says, but salt that has lost its savor cannot be seasoned again.