"“Ye are the salt of the earth.”— Matthew 5:13 . Salt is valued for its preservative properties; and when God calls His children salt, He would teach them that His purpose in making them the subjects of His grace is that they may become agents in saving others. The object of God in choosing a people before all the world was not only that He might adopt them as His sons and daughters, but that through them the world might receive the grace that bringeth salvation. Titus 2:11 . When the Lord chose Abraham, it was not simply to be the special friend of God, but to be a medium of the peculiar privileges the Lord desired to bestow upon the nations. Jesus, in that last prayer with His disciples before His crucifixion, said, “For their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.” John 17:19 . In like manner Christians who are purified through the truth will possess saving qualities that preserve the world from utter moral corruption. MB 35"
"Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men."
Ellen White directly references Matthew 5:13 in this passage.
"For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,"
Ellen White directly references Titus 2:11 in this passage.
"And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth."
Ellen White directly references John 17:19 in this passage.
"It was this joy that filled the hearts of Paul and Silas when they prayed and sang praises to God at midnight in the Philippian dungeon. Christ was beside them there, and the light of His presence irradiated the gloom with the glory of the courts above. From Rome, Paul wrote, unmindful of his fetters as he saw the spread of the gospel, “I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice.” Philippians 1:18 . And the very words of Christ upon the mount are re-echoed in Paul's message to the Philippian church, in the midst of their persecutions, “Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice.” Philippians 4:4 . MB 35.1"
"What then? notwithstanding, every way, whether in pretence, or in truth, Christ is preached; and I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice."
Ellen White directly references Philippians 1:18 in this passage.
"Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice."
Ellen White directly references Philippians 4:4 in this passage.