Colossians 4:6

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Summary

Colossians 4:6

Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.

Your

Seasoned

How

Proverbs 26:4

Luke 20:20

1 Peter 3:15

General references

Psalm 37:30

Bible References

Your

Let the word of the Christ dwell in you in abundance in all wisdom, teaching you and exhorting you one to another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with grace singing in your hearts unto the Lord.

And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be upon thy heart,

And ye shall teach them to your children that ye may think of them sitting in thy house and walking by the way, lying down in bed, and rising up.

Declare his glory among the Gentiles; his marvellous works among all peoples.

Pe The mouth of the righteous speaks wisdom, and his tongue brings forth judgment.

I have preached righteousness in the great congregation; behold, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest.

Thou art fairer than the sons of men, grace is poured into thy lips; therefore God has blessed thee for ever.

Come and hear, all ye that fear God, and I will declare what he has done unto my soul.

My mouth shall show forth thy righteousness and thy salvation all the day, for I know not the numbers thereof.

which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.

Sing unto him, sing psalms unto him; speak of all his wondrous works.

With my lips I have declared all the judgments of thy mouth.

The lips of the righteous feed many, but fools die for lack of wisdom.

The wholesome tongue is a tree of life, but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.

The wise in heart is called a man of understanding; and the sweetness of the lips shall increase doctrine.

Bow down thine ear and hear the words of the wise, and apply thine heart unto my wisdom.

A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold inscribed with silver.

The words from the mouth of the wise man are grace, but the lips of the fool will swallow up himself.

Then those that feared the LORD spoke one to another, and the LORD hearkened and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for those that feared the LORD and for those that think in his name.

O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

And all bore him witness and marvelled at the words of grace which proceeded out of his mouth. And they said, Is not this Joseph's son?

Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good for edification, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.

Seasoned

And every offering of thy present shalt thou season with salt, and thou shalt never allow the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy present; with all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt.

Then he said, Bring me a new cruse and put salt in it. And they brought it to him.

Ye are the salt of the earth, but if the salt has lost its savour, with what shall it be salted? From then on it is good for nothing, but to be cast out and to be trodden under foot of men.

Salt is good, but if the salt has lost its saltness, with what will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another.

How

Never answer a fool according to his folly lest thou also be like unto him.

And they watched him and sent forth spies who feigned themselves just men that they might take hold of him as he was speaking, that so they might deliver him unto the power and authority of the governor.

but sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and be ready always to respond to every man that asks you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and reverence,

General references

Pe The mouth of the righteous speaks wisdom, and his tongue brings forth judgment.