Colossians 4:6 KJV — MannaFest

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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ASV

Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer each one.

WEB

Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.

YLT

your word always in grace--with salt being seasoned--to know how it behoveth you to answer each one.

DBT

[Let] your word [be] always with grace, seasoned with salt, [so as] to know how ye ought to answer each one.

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Colossians — Christ is preeminent — creator and sustainer, the head of the body, the reconciler of all things. Against every philosophy and empty deceit, the full sufficiency of Christ.

Author: Paul, with Timothy (1:1)
Date: c. AD 60–62, from Roman imprisonment

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54 verses on the floor

Matthew 5:13
Ye 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.
Ephesians 4:29
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.
1 Peter 3:15
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:
Proverbs 18:21
Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
Ecclesiastes 10:12
The words of a wise man’s mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.

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Let all your discourse be as becomes Christians, suitable to your profession--savoury, discreet, seasonable." Though it be not always of grace, it must be always with grace; and, though the matter of our discourse be that which is common, yet there must be an air of piety upon it and it must be in a Christian manner seasoned with salt.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

with grace--Greek, "IN grace" as its element (Col 3:16; Contrast the case of those "of the world" who "therefore speak of the world" (1Jo 4:5). Even the smallest leaf of the believer should be full of the sap of the Holy Spirit (Jer 17:7, 8).

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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