KJV King James Version
Let your speech [be] alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Colossians 4:6
Let your speech [be] alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.
WEB World English Bible
Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.
ASV American Standard Version
Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer each one.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
your word always in grace—with salt being seasoned—to know how it behoveth you to answer each one.
Surrounding context — Colossians 4
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.
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.
7 All my state shall Tychicus declare unto you, [who is] a beloved brother, and a faithful minister and fellowservant in the Lord:
8 Whom I have sent unto you for the same purpose, that he might know your estate, and comfort your hearts;
9 With Onesimus, a faithful and beloved brother, who is [one] of you. They shall make known unto you all things which [are done] here.
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Original-language word links
These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
ὁG3588 · hothe/this/whoλόγοςG3056 · logoswordὑμῶνG4771 · suyouπάντοτεG3842 · pantotealwaysἐνG1722 · enin/on/amongχάριτι,G5485 · charisgraceἅλατιG217 · halassaltἠρτυμένος,G741 · artuōto seasonεἰδέναιG6063 · oidato knowπῶςG4459 · pōshow?!δεῖG1163 · deibe necessaryὑμᾶςG4771 · suyouἑνὶG1520 · ehisoneἑκάστῳG1538 · hekastoseachἀποκρίνεσθαι.¶G611 · apokrinōto answer
Cross-references
Ephesians 4:29Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.1 Peter 3:15But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and [be] ready always to [give] an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:Ecclesiastes 10:12The words of a wise man’s mouth [are] gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.Mark 9:50Salt [is] good: but if the salt have lost his saltness, wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another.Proverbs 15:4A wholesome tongue [is] a tree of life: but perverseness therein [is] a breach in the spirit.Proverbs 15:7The lips of the wise disperse knowledge: but the heart of the foolish [doeth] not so.Colossians 3:16Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.Proverbs 22:17-18Bow down thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thine heart unto my knowledge.Proverbs 16:21-24The wise in heart shall be called prudent: and the sweetness of the lips increaseth learning.Matthew 5:13Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.Proverbs 26:4-5Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.Matthew 12:34-35O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.Psalm 119:46I will speak of thy testimonies also before kings, and will not be ashamed.Proverbs 25:11-12A word fitly spoken [is like] apples of gold in pictures of silver.Psalm 105:2Sing unto him, sing psalms unto him: talk ye of all his wondrous works.Proverbs 10:21The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of wisdom.Psalm 78:3-4Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.Psalm 40:9-10I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest.
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