Luke 8:5

Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.

Every offering of your meal offering you shall season with salt. You shall not allow the salt of the covenant of your God to be lacking from your meal offering. With all your offerings you shall offer salt.

He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.

Salt is good, but if the salt becomes flat and tasteless, with what do you season it?

Salt is good, but if the salt has lost its saltiness, with what will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.”

Those in the good ground, these are those who with an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it tightly, and produce fruit with perseverance.

This is now, beloved, the second letter that I have written to you; and in both of them I stir up your sincere mind by reminding you,

With my whole heart, I have sought you. Don’t let me wander from your commandments.

When anyone hears the word of the Kingdom, and doesn’t understand it, the evil one comes, and snatches away that which has been sown in his heart. This is what was sown by the roadside.

He set another parable before them, saying, “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field,

For concerning those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit,

Yes, I will make every effort that you may always be able to remember these things even after my departure.

Only be careful, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children’s children—

Be careful, lest your heart be deceived, and you turn away to serve other gods and worship them;

But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of Yahweh, the God of Israel, with all his heart. He didn’t depart from the sins of Jeroboam, with which he made Israel to sin.

Then you will prosper, if you observe to do the statutes and the ordinances which Yahweh gave Moses concerning Israel. Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid, and don’t be dismayed.

How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word.

You have rebuked the proud who are cursed, who wander from your commandments.

My son, let them not depart from your eyes. Keep sound wisdom and discretion:

Listen, sons, to a father’s instruction. Pay attention and know understanding;

Take firm hold of instruction. Don’t let her go. Keep her, for she is your life.

In the morning sow your seed, and in the evening don’t withhold your hand; for you don’t know which will prosper, whether this or that, or whether they both will be equally good.

You shall bring them near to Yahweh, and the priests shall cast salt on them, and they shall offer them up for a burnt offering to Yahweh.

As he sowed, some seeds fell by the roadside, and the birds came and devoured them.

“When, therefore, you see the abomination of desolation, which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand),

The farmer sows the word.

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth.”

Having then a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let’s hold tightly to our confession.

You have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, “My son, don’t take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him;

Brothers, if any among you wanders from the truth and someone turns him back,

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

Remember therefore how you have received and heard. Keep it and repent. If therefore you won’t watch, I will come as a thief, and you won’t know what hour I will come upon you.

The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

And after the thousand years, Satan will be released from his prison,

The devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet are also. They will be tormented day and night forever and ever.

The birds of prey came down on the carcasses, and Abram drove them away.

Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry his daughters, and said, “Get up! Get out of this place, for Yahweh will destroy the city!” But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be joking.

Abraham went up early in the morning to the place where he had stood before Yahweh.

Moses said, “This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded, ‘Let an omer-full of it be kept throughout your generations, that they may see the bread with which I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.’ ”

You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes.

You shall count for yourselves seven weeks. From the time you begin to put the sickle to the standing grain you shall begin to count seven weeks.

He said to them, “Set your heart to all the words which I testify to you today, which you shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law.

“Listen diligently to my speech. Let this be your consolation.

I said, “I will watch my ways, so that I don’t sin with my tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me.”

You reject all those who stray from your statutes, for their deceit is in vain.

Therefore I consider all of your precepts to be right. I hate every false way.

He is in the way of life who heeds correction, but he who forsakes reproof leads others astray.

Wicked people earn deceitful wages, but one who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward.

When he sees a troop, horsemen in pairs, a troop of donkeys, a troop of camels, he shall listen diligently with great attentiveness.”

Who has believed our message? To whom has Yahweh’s arm been revealed?

“The Lord has set at nothing all my mighty men within me. He has called a solemn assembly against me to crush my young men. The Lord has trodden the virgin daughter of Judah as in a wine press.

He showed me Joshua the high priest standing before Yahweh’s angel, and Satan standing at his right hand to be his adversary.

Yes, they made their hearts as hard as flint, lest they might hear the law, and the words which Yahweh of Armies had sent by his Spirit by the former prophets. Therefore great wrath came from Yahweh of Armies.

Then Jesus said to him, “Get behind me, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve him only.’ ”

“You are the salt of the earth, but if the salt has lost its flavor, with what will it be salted? It is then good for nothing, but to be cast out and trodden under the feet of men.

He spoke to them many things in parables, saying, “Behold, a farmer went out to sow.

The servants of the householder came and said to him, ‘Sir, didn’t you sow good seed in your field? Where did these darnel weeds come from?’

He answered them, “He who sows the good seed is the Son of Man,

The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will gather out of his Kingdom all things that cause stumbling, and those who do iniquity,

But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his own farm, another to his merchandise,

and as he sowed, some seed fell by the road, and the birds came and devoured it.

The ones by the road are the ones where the word is sown; and when they have heard, immediately Satan comes, and takes away the word which has been sown in them.

He said to them, “Take heed what you hear. With whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you, and more will be given to you who hear.

He said, “God’s Kingdom is as if a man should cast seed on the earth,

A cloud came, overshadowing them, and a voice came out of the cloud, “This is my beloved Son. Listen to him.”

Those along the road are those who hear, then the devil comes, and takes away the word from their heart, that they may not believe and be saved.

Be careful therefore how you hear. For whoever has, to him will be given; and whoever doesn’t have, from him will be taken away even that which he thinks he has.”

“Let these words sink into your ears, for the Son of Man will be delivered up into the hands of men.”

If we leave him alone like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.”

Most certainly I tell you, he who receives whomever I send, receives me; and he who receives me, receives him who sent me.”

Jesus therefore said to them again, “Peace be to you. As the Father has sent me, even so I send you.”

For Moses indeed said to the fathers, ‘The Lord God will raise up a prophet for you from among your brothers, like me. You shall listen to him in all things whatever he says to you.

But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back part of the price of the land?

Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked; but others said, “We want to hear you again concerning this.”

For I will not dare to speak of any things except those which Christ worked through me, for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,

by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.

that no advantage may be gained over us by Satan, for we are not ignorant of his schemes.

and not by his coming only, but also by the comfort with which he was comforted in you while he told us of your longing, your mourning, and your zeal for me, so that I rejoiced still more.

even he whose coming is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,

God, having in the past spoken to the fathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways,

Therefore we ought to pay greater attention to the things that were heard, lest perhaps we drift away.

lest there be any sexually immoral person, or profane person, like Esau, who sold his birthright for one meal.

Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.