Colossians 4:6

Let your speech be always gracious, with a savor of salt, and learn how to give every man a fitting answer.

Montgomery New Testament

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

5Conduct yourselves with wisdom toward those without, buying up your opportunities.

7Tychicus, my beloved brother and faithful minister and fellow slave in the Lord, will make known to you all that concerns 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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