Colossians 4:5
Walk with wisdom towards them that are without, redeeming the time.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time.
In Context
4That I may make it manifest as I ought to speak.
Cross References
Psalms 90:12can number thy wrath? So make thy right hand known: and men learned in heart, in wisdom.
Matthew 10:16Behold I send you as sheep in the midst of wolves. Be ye therefore wise as serpents and simple as doves.
Romans 16:19For your obedience is published in every place. I rejoice therefore in you. But I would have you to be wise in good, and simple in evil.
1 Corinthians 14:19But in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that I may instruct others also; than ten thousand words in a tongue.
Colossians 3:16Let the word of Christ dwell in you abundantly, in all wisdom: teaching and admonishing one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual canticles, singing in grace in your hearts to God.
1 Timothy 3:7Moreover he must have a good testimony of them who are without: lest he 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 →