Colossians 4:5
In wisdom walk towards the outward ones, and redeem your opportunity.
The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge
In The King James Version
Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time.
In Context
4that I may fully make it manifest, as it behoveth me.
Cross References
Matthew 10:16LO, I send you forth as sheep among wolves: be you, therefore, wise as serpents and guileless as doves.
Romans 16:19But your obedience is known to every one; I rejoice therefore in you, and I wish you to be wise unto good (works), and pure with regard to evil.
1 Corinthians 14:19but in the church I would rather speak five words with my mind, that others also may learn, than ten thousand words in a tongue.
Colossians 3:16whose word shall dwell in you abundantly, in all wisdom. And teach and admonish yourselves in psalms and in hymns and in songs of the Spirit, and with grace sing with your hearts unto Aloha.
1 Timothy 3:7But it is needful that he have also a good testimony from those without, that he may not fall into reproach, and into the net of Satana.
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 →