Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
your word always in grace -- with salt being seasoned -- to know how it behoveth you to answer each one.
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,
International Standard Version
Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer everyone.
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.
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 in wisdom walk ye toward those without, the time forestalling; 6 your word always in grace -- with salt being seasoned -- to know how it behoveth you to answer each one. 7 All the things concerning me make known to you shall Tychicus -- the beloved brother, and faithful ministrant, and fellow-servant in the Lord --
Cross References
1 Peter 3:15
and the Lord God sanctify in your hearts. And be ready always for defence to every one who is asking of you an account concerning the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear;
Mark 9:50
The salt is good, but if the salt may become saltless, in what will ye season it? Have in yourselves salt, and have peace in one another.'
Ephesians 4:29
Let no corrupt word out of your mouth go forth, but what is good unto the needful building up, that it may give grace to the hearers;
Leviticus 2:13
And every offering -- thy present -- with salt thou dost season, and thou dost not let the salt of the covenant of thy God cease from thy present; with all thine offerings thou dost bring near salt.
Psalm 119:46
And I speak of Thy testimonies before kings, And I am not ashamed.
Matthew 5:13
'Ye are the salt of the land, but if the salt may lose savour, in what shall it be salted? for nothing is it good henceforth, except to be cast without, and to be trodden down by men.
Colossians 3:16
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing each other, in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs, in grace singing in your hearts to the Lord;
Deuteronomy 6:6-7
and these words which I am commanding thee to-day have been on thine heart,
Deuteronomy 11:19
and ye have taught them to your sons, by speaking of them in thy sitting in thy house, and in thy going in the way, and in thy lying down, and in thy rising up,
2 Kings 2:20-22
And he saith, 'Bring to me a new dish, and place there salt;' and they bring it unto him,
1 Chronicles 16:24
Rehearse among nations His glory, Among all the peoples His wonders.
Psalm 37:30-31
The mouth of the righteous uttereth wisdom, And his tongue speaketh judgment.
Psalm 40:9-10
I have proclaimed tidings of righteousness In the great assembly, lo, my lips I restrain not, O Jehovah, Thou hast known.
Psalm 45:2
Thou hast been beautified above the sons of men, Grace hath been poured into thy lips, Therefore hath God blessed thee to the age.
Psalm 66:16
Come, hear, all ye who fear God, And I recount what he did for my soul.
Psalm 71:15-18
My mouth recounteth Thy righteousness, All the day Thy salvation, For I have not known the numbers.
Psalm 71:23-24
My lips cry aloud when I sing praise to Thee, And my soul that Thou hast redeemed,
Psalm 78:3-4
That we have heard and do know, And our fathers have recounted to us.
Psalm 105:2
Sing ye to Him -- sing praise to Him, Meditate ye on all His wonders.
Psalm 119:13
With my lips I have recounted All the judgments of Thy mouth.
Proverbs 10:21
The lips of the righteous delight many, And fools for lack of heart die.
Proverbs 15:4
A healed tongue is a tree of life, And perverseness in it -- a breach in the spirit.
Proverbs 15:7
The lips of the wise scatter knowledge, And the heart of fools is not right.
Proverbs 16:21-24
To the wise in heart is called, 'Intelligent,' And sweetness of lips increaseth learning.
Proverbs 22:17-18
Incline thine ear, and hear words of the wise, And thy heart set to my knowledge,
Proverbs 25:11-12
Apples of gold in imagery of silver, Is the word spoken at its fit times.
Proverbs 26:4-5
Answer not a fool according to his folly, Lest thou be like to him -- even thou.
Ecclesiastes 10:12
Words of the mouth of the wise are gracious, And the lips of a fool swallow him up.
Malachi 3:16-18
Then have those fearing Jehovah spoken one to another, And Jehovah doth attend and hear, And written is a book of memorial before Him Of those fearing Jehovah, And of those esteeming His name.
Matthew 12:34-35
Brood of vipers! how are ye able to speak good things -- being evil? for out of the abundance of the heart doth the mouth speak.
Luke 4:22
and all were bearing testimony to him, and were wondering at the gracious words that are coming forth out of his mouth, and they said, 'Is not this the son of Joseph?'
Luke 20:20-40
And, having watched him, they sent forth liers in wait, feigning themselves to be righteous, that they might take hold of his word, to deliver him up to the rule and to the authority of the governor,