Colossians 4:6

Let your language be always seasoned with the salt of grace, so that you may know how to give every man a fitting answer.

Weymouth NT (1912)

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

5Behave wisely in relation to the outside world, buying up your opportunities.

7Tychicus, our much-loved brother, a trusty assistant and fellow servant with us in the Lord's work, will give you every information about 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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