Ye are the salt of the earth: =xiv. 34, 35.= but if the salt have lost its savour, wherewith shall it be _Salt therefore is good: but salted? it is thenceforth good if even the salt have lost its for nothing, but to be cast out savour, wherewith shall it be and trodden under foot of men. seasoned? It is fit neither for Ye are the light of the world. A the land nor for the dunghill: city set on a hill cannot be hid. men cast it out. He that hath Neither do men light a lamp, and ears to hear, let him hear._ put it under the bushel, but on the stand; and it shineth unto all that are in the house. Even =St. Luke xi. 33.= so let your light shine before men, that they may see your good _No man, when he hath lighted works, and glorify your Father a lamp, putteth it in a cellar, which is in heaven. neither under the bushel, but on the stand, that they which enter Think not that I came to it may see the light._ destroy the law or the prophets: I came not to destroy, but to fulfil. For verily I say unto =xvi. 17.= you, Till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle _But it is easier for heaven shall in no wise pass away from and earth to pass away, than for the law, till all things be one tittle of the law to fall._ accomplished. Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. For I say unto you, that except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no wise enter into the kingdom of heaven.