Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
Seasoned
Bible References
Your
Colossians 3:16
Let the message of Christ live in your hearts in all its wealth of wisdom. Teach it to one another and train one another in it with thankfulness, with psalms, hymns, and sacred songs, and sing to God with all your hearts.
Matthew 12:34
You brood of snakes! how can you, bad as you are, utter anything good? For the mouth says only what the heart is full of.
Luke 4:22
And they all spoke well of him and were astonished at the winning words that fell from his lips, and they said, "Is he not Joseph's son?"
Ephesians 4:29
No bad word must ever pass your lips, but only words that are good and suited to improve the occasion, so that they will be a blessing to those who hear them.
Seasoned
Matthew 5:13
"You are the salt of the earth! But if salt loses its strength, how can it be made salt again? It is good for nothing but to be thrown away and trodden underfoot.
Mark 9:50
Salt is a good thing, but if salt loses its strength, what will you use to season it? You must have salt within you, and live in peace with one another."
How
Luke 20:20
So they kept watch of him and set some spies who pretended to be honest men to fasten on something that he said, so that they might hand him over to the control and authority of the governor.
1 Peter 3:15
but reverence Christ in your hearts as Lord, and always be ready to make your defense to anyone who calls you to account for the hope that you have. But do so gently and respectfully,