Colossians 4:6

Let your word be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how it behooves you to answer each one.

1902 William Baxter Godbey NT

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 about in wisdom toward the aliens, buying in the opportunity.

7Tychicus, my beloved brother, and faithful minister and fellow-laborer in the Lord, will make known to you all things which appertain to 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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