metaphors
Matthew Chapter 5:13
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.
Matthew Chapter 5:14
Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.
1 Corinthians Chapter 3:9
For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building.