Colossians 4:5
Walk in wisdom towards them without: and redeem your opportunity.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time.
In Context
4that I may unfold it, and utter it, as it behooveth me.
Cross References
Matthew 10:16Behold, I send you forth as sheep among wolves. Therefore be ye sagacious as serpents, and guileless as doves.
Romans 16:19But your obedience is known to every one. I therefore rejoice in you: and I would have you be wise in what is good, and blameless in what is evil.
1 Corinthians 14:19But in the church, I would rather speak five words with my understanding, that I might instruct others, than a myriad of words in a tongue.
Colossians 3:16And let his word dwell in you richly, in all wisdom. And teach and admonish yourselves, by psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, and with grace in your hearts sing ye unto God.
1 Timothy 3:7And there ought to be good testimony of him from those without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of Satan.
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 →