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 in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.

And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:

And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

Declare his glory among the heathen; his marvellous works among all nations.

The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue talketh of judgment.

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

Thou art fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee for ever.

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

My mouth shall shew 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: talk ye of all his wondrous works.

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

The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of wisdom.

A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.

The wise in heart shall be called prudent: and the sweetness of the lips increaseth learning.

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

A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.

The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.

Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name.

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

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

Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.

Seasoned

And every oblation of thy meat offering shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meat offering: with all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt.

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

Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.

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

How

Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.

And they watched him, and sent forth spies, which should feign themselves just men, that they might take hold of his words, 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 give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:

General references

The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue talketh of judgment.