Colossians 4:5
Conduct yourselves with wisdom toward those without, buying up your opportunities.
Montgomery New Testament
In The King James Version
Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time.
In Context
4Pray that I may unfold it as I ought to speak.
Cross References
Matthew 10:16"Behold, it is I who am sending you forth like sheep among wolves. Be then as serpents and as guileless as doves.
Romans 16:19I say this, for the tidings of your obedience have been told throughout the world. On your own behalf, then, I rejoice; but I want you to be wise unto the good, but innocents in evil.
1 Corinthians 14:19but in the church I would rather speak five words with my understanding, so as to instruct others, than ten thousand in an unknown tongue.
Colossians 3:16Let the word of Christ have its home in you richly, in all wisdom. Teach and admonish one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, ever singing with grace in your hearts unto God.
1 Timothy 3:7He should also have a good reputation among outsiders, lest he fall into reproach, and into a snare of the devil.
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 →