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 Christ dwell in, you richly; teaching and reminding one another in all wisdom, playing with harps, and songs, and spiritual odes, with grace singing in your hearts to the Lord.

And these words which I command thee to do shall be upon thy heart;

And teach them to your sons to speak in them in thy resting in thy house, and in thy walking in the way, and in thy lying down, and in thy rising up

Recount his glory among the nations; his wonders among all peoples

The mouth of the just one shall speak wisdom, and his tongue shall speak judgment

I announced good news, justice in the great convocation: behold, my lips I will not shut up, O Jehovah, thou knewest

Thou wert very beautiful above the sons of man: grace was poured forth by thy lips: for this God praised thee forever.

Come, hear, and I will recount, all ye fearing God, what he did for my soul

My mouth shall recount thy justice, all the day thy salvation, for I knew not numbers.

Which we heard and we shall know them, and our fathers recounted to us.

Sing ye to him and play on the harp to him: discourse ye upon all his wonders.

With my lips I recounted all the judgments of thy mouth.

The lips of the just one shall feed many: and fools in wanting heart, shall die.

The healing of the tongue the tree of life: and perverseness in it a breaking in the spirit

He understanding shall call to the wise of heart: and sweetness of lips shall add knowledge

Incline thine ear and hear the words of the wise, and thou shalt set thy heart to my knowledge.

Apples of gold in images of silver is the word spoken upon its wheels.

The words of the wise one's mouth, grace; and the lips of the foolish one shall swallow him down.

Then they fearing Jehovah spake each to his neighbor, and Jehovah will attend and will hear, and write a book of remembrance before him for those fearing Jehovah, and for thinking upon his name.

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

And all bore him testimony and wondered at the words of grace going out of his mouth: and said, Is not this the son of Joseph

Let not any foul word go out of your mouth, but if any good to the building of necessity, that it might give grace to them hearing.

Seasoned

And every offering of thy gift, thou shalt salt with salt; and thou shalt not cause the salt of the covenant of thy God to cease from thy gift: upon every offering of thine thou shalt bring near salt

And he will say, Take to me a new dish, and put salt there. And they will take to him.

Ye are the salt of the earth: and if the salt be rendered insipid, with what shall it be salted? it is yet strong for nothing, except to be cast without, and to be trodden under foot of men.

Salt good: but if the salt be saltless, with what will ye prepare it? Have salt in yourselves, and live in peace one with another.

How

Thou shalt not answer the foolish according to his folly lest thou shalt be like to him.

And having observed narrowly, they sent liers-in-wait, feigning themselves to be just, that they might seize upon his word, to deliver him to the beginning and authority of the leader.

And consecrate the Lord God in your hearts: and being ready always for a justification to every one asking you the word of the hope in you with meekness and fear:

General references

The mouth of the just one shall speak wisdom, and his tongue shall speak judgment