Colossians 4:5
Walk in wisdom toward those outside, redeeming the time,
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time.
In Context
4so that I may make it known as I ought to speak.
Cross References
Psalms 90:12So teach us to number our days, that we may get us a heart of wisdom.
Matthew 10:16Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves. Become ye therefore wise as serpents, and innocent as doves.
Romans 16:19For your obedience reached to all men. Therefore I rejoice over you, but I want you to be indeed wise in the good and pure in the evil.
1 Corinthians 14:19Yet in an assembly I would rather speak five words with my intellect, so that I might also make others understand, than countless words in a tongue.
Colossians 3:16Let the word of Christ dwell in you abundantly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing by grace in your hearts to God.
1 Timothy 3:7And he must also have good testimony from those outside, lest he may fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.
Matthew Henry on Colossians 4:3-5
Apostolic Exhortations. ( a. d. 62.) 2 Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving; 3 Withal praying also for us, that God would open unto us a door of utterance, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds: 4 That I may make it manifest, as I ought to speak. If this be considered as connected with the foregoing verse, then we may observe that it is part of the duty which masters owe their servants to pray with them, and to pray daily with them, or continue in prayer. They must not… Read the whole commentary →