12. be glad and exult, for your reward in heaven is plentiful. For so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
13. You are the salt of the earth. But if salt loses its saltiness, with what will it be salted? It is no longer useful at all, except to be cast out and trampled under by men.
14. You are the light of the world. A city set on a mountain cannot be hidden.
15. And they do not light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a lampstand, so that it may shine to all who are in the house.