Colossians 4:6 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer everyone.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Let your speech at all times be gracious (pleasant and winsome), seasoned [as it were] with salt, [so that you may never be at a loss] to know how you ought to answer anyone [who puts a question to you].

American Standard Version (1901)

Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer each one.

Common English Bible

Your speech should always be gracious and sprinkled with insight so that you may know how to respond to every person.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Let your speech be ever graceful, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to respond to each person.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Let your speech be always in grace seasoned with salt: that you may know how you ought to answer every man.

Colossians 4:6 Cross References

1 Chronicles 16:24

Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous works among all the peoples.

Psalm 105:2

Sing to him, sing praises to him; tell of all his wonderful works.

Psalm 119:13

With my lips I declare all the ordinances of your mouth.

Psalm 119:46

I will also speak of your decrees before kings and shall not be put to shame;

Psalm 45:2

You are the most handsome of men; grace is poured upon your lips; therefore God has blessed you forever.

Psalm 66:16

Come and hear, all you who fear God, and I will tell what he has done for me.

Proverbs 10:21

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

Proverbs 15:4

A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but perverseness in it breaks the spirit.

Proverbs 15:7

The lips of the wise spread knowledge; not so the minds of fools.

Ecclesiastes 10:12

Words spoken by the wise bring them favor, but the lips of fools consume them.

Ezekiel 43:24

You shall present them before the Lord, and the priests shall throw salt on them and offer them up as a burnt offering to the Lord.

Leviticus 2:13

All your grain offerings you shall season with salt; you shall not omit from your grain offerings the salt of the covenant with your God; with all your offerings you shall offer salt.

Matthew 5:13

“You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how can its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything but is thrown out and trampled under foot.

Mark 9:50

Salt is good, but if salt has lost its saltiness, how can you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.”

Luke 4:22

All spoke well of him and were amazed at the gracious words that came from his mouth. They said, “Is this not Joseph’s son?”

Ephesians 4:29

Let no evil talk come out of your mouths but only what is good for building up, as there is need, so that your words may give grace to those who hear.

Deuteronomy 11:19

Teach them to your children, talking about them when you are at home and when you are away, when you lie down and when you rise up.

Colossians 3:16

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; teach and admonish one another in all wisdom; and with gratitude in your hearts sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs to God.

1 Peter 3:15

but in your hearts sanctify Christ as Lord. Always be ready to make your defense to anyone who demands from you an accounting for the hope that is in you,