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Colossians 4:6
“Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.”
Colossians 4:6, King James Version (KJV)
“Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.”
World English Bible (WEB)
Colossians 4 (KJV)
- 1Masters, give unto your servants that which is just and equal; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven.
- 2Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving;
- 3Withal 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:
- 4That I may make it manifest, as I ought to speak.
- 5Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time.
- 6Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
- 7All my state shall Tychicus declare unto you, who is a beloved brother, and a faithful minister and fellowservant in the Lord:
- 8Whom I have sent unto you for the same purpose, that he might know your estate, and comfort your hearts;
- 9With Onesimus, a faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you. They shall make known unto you all things which are done here.
- 10Aristarchus my fellowprisoner saluteth you, and Marcus, sister’s son to Barnabas, (touching whom ye received commandments: if he come unto you, receive him;)
- 11And Jesus, which is called Justus, who are of the circumcision. These only are my fellowworkers unto the kingdom of God, which have been a comfort unto me.
- 12Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, saluteth you, always labouring fervently for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.
- 13For I bear him record, that he hath a great zeal for you, and them that are in Laodicea, and them in Hierapolis.
- 14Luke, the beloved physician, and Demas, greet you.
- 15Salute the brethren which are in Laodicea, and Nymphas, and the church which is in his house.
- 16And when this epistle is read among you, cause that it be read also in the church of the Laodiceans; and that ye likewise read the epistle from Laodicea.
- 17And say to Archippus, Take heed to the ministry which thou hast received in the Lord, that thou fulfil it.
- 18The salutation by the hand of me Paul. Remember my bonds. Grace be with you. Amen.
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Passages that readers often connect with Colossians 4:6, in the King James Version.
Let 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.
But 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 10:12
The words of a wise man’s mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.
Mark 9:50
Salt 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 15:4
A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.
Proverbs 15:7
The lips of the wise disperse knowledge: but the heart of the foolish doeth not so.
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