Colossians 4:6

the word of{you} always in to{grace/favor}, to{salt} having-been-prepared/seasoned, to-have-beheld how it-is-necessitating you to-be-responding to{each one}.

Garth's Hyper-literal Translation

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

5Be-walking-around in to{wisdom} toward the[plural] outside, purchasing-selves-out the season,

7Tychicus, the beloved brother and faithful servant and together-slave in to{[the] Lord}, will-know-ize to{you} all the according-to emphatically-me,

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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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