Colossians 4:6

Let your speech be always in grace seasoned with salt: that you may know how you ought to answer every man.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.

In Context

5Walk with wisdom towards them that are without, redeeming the time.

7All the things that concern me, Tychicus, our dearest brother, and faithful minister and fellow servant in the Lord, will make known to you,

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 6:6And these words which I command thee this day, shall be in thy heart:

2 Kings 2:20And he said: Bring me a new vessel, and put salt into it. And when they had brought it,

Psalms 37:30The mouth of the just shall meditate wisdom : and his tongue shall speak judgment.

Psalms 45:2My heart hath uttered a good word I speak my works to the king; My tongue is the pen of a scrivener that writeth swiftly.

Psalms 71:15My mouth shall shew forth thy justice; thy salvation all the day long. Because I have not knows learning,

Psalms 78:3How great things have we heard and known, and our fathers have told us.

Matthew Henry on Colossians 4:6-7

Apostolic Exhortations. ( a. d. 62.) 5 Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time. 6 Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man. The apostle exhorts them further to a prudent and decent conduct towards all those with whom they conversed, towards the heathen world, or those out of the Christian church among whom they lived ( v. 5 ): Walk in wisdom towards those who are without. Be careful, in all your converse with them, to get no… Read the whole commentary →

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