Colossians 4:5
Behave wisely with outsiders, making the best use of every opportunity.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time.
In Context
4Pray that I may make it as clear as I should when I speak.
Cross References
Psalms 90:12Teach us to value every one of our days so we can live wisely!
Matthew 10:16Look, I'm sending you out like sheep among wolves. So be as wise as serpents and harmless as doves.
Romans 16:19Everyone knows how faithful you are. This makes me really happy. However, I want you to be wise about what's good, and innocent of anything bad.
1 Corinthians 14:19But in church I would rather speak five understandable words to teach others than ten thousand words in a tongue nobody understands.
Colossians 3:16Let Christ's message fully live in you. In every wise way teach and instruct one another through psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing praises to God in gratitude and sincerity.
1 Timothy 3:7People outside the church should also speak well of him so that he won't disgrace himself and fall into the devil's trap.
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 →