Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer everyone.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
Holman Bible
Your speech should always be gracious, seasoned with salt,
A Conservative Version
your speech always with grace seasoned with salt, to know how it is fitting for you to answer each one.
American Standard Version
Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer each one.
Amplified
Let your speech at all times be gracious and pleasant, seasoned with salt, so that you will know how to answer each one [who questions you].
An Understandable Version
Your speech should always be favorable, seasoned with salt [i.e., interesting and appropriate], so that you may know how to properly answer each person [you talk with].
Anderson New Testament
Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer every one.
Bible in Basic English
Let your talk be with grace, mixed with salt, so that you may be able to give an answer to everyone.
Common New Testament
Let your speech always be full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer everyone.
Daniel Mace New Testament
let an air of modesty appear in all your discourse; and let it be seasoned with discretion, in making a proper reply, when you are call'd into question.
Darby Translation
Let your word be always with grace, seasoned with salt, so as to know how ye ought to answer each one.
Godbey New Testament
Let your word be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how it behooves you to answer each one.
Goodspeed New Testament
Always put your message attractively, and yet pointedly, and be prepared to give every inquirer a fitting answer.
John Wesley New Testament
Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every one.
Julia Smith Translation
Your word always in grace, Seasoned with salt, to know how it is fitting for you to answer one another.
King James 2000
Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer every man.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Let your speech always [be] with grace, seasoned with salt, so that [you] may know how it is necessary for you to answer each one.
Modern King James verseion
Let your speech be always with grace, having been seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Let your speech be always well favoured and be powdered with salt, that ye may know how to answer every man.
Moffatt New Testament
let your talk always have a saving salt of grace about it, and learn how to answer any question put to you.
Montgomery New Testament
Let your speech be always gracious, with a savor of salt, and learn how to give every man a fitting answer.
NET Bible
Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you should answer everyone.
New Heart English Bible
Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.
Noyes New Testament
Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every one.
Sawyer New Testament
Let your words always be with kindness, seasoned with salt, that you may know how to answer every one.
The Emphasized Bible
Your discourse being always with benefit, with salt, seasoned, - that ye may know how it behoveth you, unto each one, to be making answer.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Let your discourse be always gracious, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to reply to every man.
Twentieth Century New Testament
Let your conversation always be kindly, and seasoned, as it were, with salt; that you may know in each case what answer you ought to give.
Webster
Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
Weymouth New Testament
Let your language be always seasoned with the salt of grace, so that you may know how to give every man a fitting answer.
Williams New Testament
Always let your conversation be seasoned with salt, that is, with winsomeness, so that you may know how to make a fitting answer to everyone.
World English Bible
Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.
Worrell New Testament
Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer each one.
Worsley New Testament
Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with discretion to know how ye ought to answer every one.
Youngs Literal Translation
your word always in grace -- with salt being seasoned -- to know how it behoveth you to answer each one.
Themes
Conversation » Speech, admonitions concerning
Courtesy » General references to
Grace » Saints » Should speak with
Missionaries » In holy conservation
Salt » Illustrative » Of wisdom in speech
Salt » Figurative » Of wise behavior
Social duties » Compassion » Courtesy, general references to
Speech » Admonitions concerning
Topics
Interlinear
Eido
Devotionals
Devotionals about Colossians 4:6
Devotionals containing Colossians 4:6
References
American
Easton
Fausets
Hastings
Morish
Watsons
Word Count of 37 Translations in Colossians 4:6
Images Colossians 4:6
Prayers for Colossians 4:6
Verse Info
Context Readings
Further Advice For The Christian Life
5 Behave wisely toward outsiders, making the best use of your time. 6 Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer everyone. 7 Tychicus will tell you everything that has happened to me. He is a dear brother, a faithful minister, and a fellow servant in the Lord.
Cross References
1 Peter 3:15
Instead, exalt the Messiah" as Lord in your lives. Always be prepared to give a defense to everyone who asks you to explain the hope you have.
Mark 9:50
Salt is good. But if salt loses its taste, how can you restore its flavor? Keep on having salt among yourselves, and live in peace with one another."
Ephesians 4:29
Let no filthy talk be heard from your mouths, but only what is good for building up people and meeting the need of the moment. This way you will administer grace to those who hear you.
Leviticus 2:13
"Also, be sure to rub every offering from your grain offering with salt. You are not ever to remove the salt of the covenant of your God from your grain offering. Present all your offerings with salt."
Psalm 119:46
Then I will speak of your decrees before kings and not be ashamed.
Matthew 5:13
"You are the salt of the world. But if the salt should lose its taste, how can it be made salty again? It's good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled on by people.
Colossians 3:16
Let the word of the Messiah inhabit you richly with wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, and singing to God with thankfulness in your hearts.
Deuteronomy 6:6-7
Let these words that I'm commanding you today be always on your heart.
Deuteronomy 11:19
Teach them to your children, talking about them while sitting in your house, walking on the road, or when you are about to lie down or get up.
2 Kings 2:20-22
Elisha ordered them, "Bring me a new bowl and put some salt in it." So they brought him what he had requested.
1 Chronicles 16:24
Declare his glory among the nations, and his miraculous deeds to all people,
Psalm 37:30-31
The mouth of the righteous one produces wisdom; his tongue speaks justice.
Psalm 40:9-10
In the great congregation I have proclaimed the righteous good news. Behold, I did not seal my lips, LORD, as you know.
Psalm 45:2
You are the most handsome of Adam's descendants; grace has anointed your lips; therefore God has blessed you forever.
Psalm 66:16
Come and listen, all of you who fear God, and I will tell you what he did for me.
Psalm 71:15-18
I will declare your righteousness and your salvation every day, though I do not fully understand what the outcome will be.
Psalm 71:23-24
My lips will shout for joy when I sing praise to you, whose life you have redeemed.
Psalm 78:3-4
things that we have heard and known and that our ancestors related to us.
Psalm 105:2
Sing to him! Praise him! Declare all his awesome deeds!
Psalm 119:13
I have spoken with my lips about all your decrees that you have announced.
Proverbs 10:21
What the righteous person says nourishes many, but fools die because they lack discerning hearts.
Proverbs 15:4
A gentle statement is a tree of life, but perverted speech shatters the spirit.
Proverbs 15:7
What the wise have to say disseminates knowledge, but it's not in the heart of fools to do so.
Proverbs 16:21-24
The wise-hearted person is told to be discerning, and that pleasant speech promotes instruction.
Proverbs 22:17-18
Pay attention and listen to the words of the wise, and apply your heart to my teaching,
Proverbs 25:11-12
Like golden apples set in silver is a word spoken at the right time.
Proverbs 26:4-5
Don't answer a fool according to his foolishness, or you will be just like him.
Ecclesiastes 10:12
The words spoken by the wise are gracious, but the lips of a fool will devour him.
Malachi 3:16-18
Then those who feared the LORD talked with each other. The LORD listened and took note, and a scroll of remembrance was written in his presence about those who fear the LORD and honor His name.
Matthew 12:34-35
You children of serpents! How can you say anything good when you are evil? The mouth speaks about what overflows from the heart.
Luke 4:22
All the people began to speak well of him and to wonder at the gracious words that flowed from his mouth. They said, "This is Joseph's son, isn't it?"
Luke 20:20-40
So they watched him closely and sent spies who pretended to be honest men in order to trap him in what he would say. They wanted to hand him over to the jurisdiction of the governor,