13. You are like salt for everyone on earth. But if salt no longer tastes like salt, how can it make food salty? All it is good for is to be thrown out and walked on.
14. You are like light for the whole world. A city built on top of a hill cannot be hidden,
15. and no one would light a lamp and put it under a clay pot. A lamp is placed on a lampstand, where it can give light to everyone in the house.
16. Make your light shine, so that others will see the good that you do and will praise your Father in heaven.
17. Don't suppose that I came to do away with the Law and the Prophets. I did not come to do away with them, but to give them their full meaning.
18. Heaven and earth may disappear. But I promise you that not even a full stop or comma will ever disappear from the Law. Everything written in it must happen.
19. If you reject even the least important command in the Law and teach others to do the same, you will be the least important person in the kingdom of heaven. But if you obey and teach others its commands, you will have an important place in the kingdom.