Colossians 4:5
Be wise in your behaviour to those who are outside, making good use of the time.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time.
In Context
4So that I may make it clear, as it is right for me to do.
6Let your talk be with grace, mixed with salt, so that you may be able to give an answer to everyone.
Cross References
Psalms 90:12So give us knowledge of the number of our days, that we may get a heart of wisdom.
Matthew 10:16See, I send you out as sheep among wolves. Be then as wise as snakes, and as gentle as doves.
Romans 16:19For all have knowledge of how you do what you are ordered. For this reason I have joy in you, but it is my desire that you may be wise in what is good, and without knowledge of evil.
1 Corinthians 14:19But in the church it would be better for me to make use of five words of which the sense was clear, so that others might have profit, than ten thousand words in a strange tongue.
Colossians 3:16Let the word of Christ be in you in all wealth of wisdom; teaching and helping one another with songs of praise and holy words, making melody to God with grace in your hearts.
1 Timothy 3:7And he is to have a good name among those outside the church, so that nothing may be said against him and he may not be taken by the designs of the Evil One.
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 →