Colossians 4:6 - The Scriptures 2009

⁶ Let your word always be with favour, seasoned with salt, so that you know how you ought to answer each one.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ 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

⁶ 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)

⁶ Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer each one.

Common English Bible

⁶ 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

⁶ Let your speech be ever graceful, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to respond to each person.

Colossians 4:6 Cross References

1 Chronicles 16:24

Declare His esteem among the nations, His wonders among all peoples.

Psalm 105:2

Sing to Him, sing praise to Him; Speak of all His wonders.

Psalm 119:13

With my lips I have recounted All the right-rulings of Your mouth.

Psalm 119:46

That I might speak of Your witnesses before sovereigns, And not be ashamed;

Psalm 45:2

You are more handsome than the sons of men; Favour has been poured upon Your lips; Therefore Elohim has blessed You forever.

Psalm 66:16

Come, hear, all you who fear Elohim, And I relate what He has done for my being.

Proverbs 10:21

The lips of the righteous shepherd many, But fools die for lack of heart.

Proverbs 15:4

A healing tongue is a tree of life, But perverseness in it crushes the spirit.

Proverbs 15:7

The lips of the wise scatter knowledge, But the heart of fools is not so.

Ecclesiastes 10:12

Words of a wise man’s mouth show favour, but the lips of a fool swallow him up;

Ezekiel 43:24

And you shall bring them before יהוה, and the priests shall throw salt on them and offer them up as an ascending offering to יהוה.

Leviticus 2:13

‘And season with salt every offering of your grain offering, and do not allow the salt of the covenant of your Elohim to be lacking from your grain offering. With all your offerings you bring salt.

Matthew 5:13

“You are the salt of the earth, but if the salt becomes tasteless, how shall it be seasoned? For it is no longer of any use but to be thrown out and to be trodden down by men.

Mark 9:50

Salt is good, but if the salt becomes tasteless, how shall you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace among one another.

Luke 4:22

And all were bearing witness to Him, and marvelled at the pleasant words that came out of His mouth. And they said, “Is this not the son of Yosĕph?”

Ephesians 4:29

Let no corrupt word come out of your mouth, but only such as is good for the use of building up, so as to impart what is pleasant to the hearers.

Deuteronomy 11:19

And you shall teach them to your children, speaking of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up,

Colossians 3:16

Let the Word of Messiah dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing with pleasure in your hearts to the Master in psalms and songs of praise and spiritual songs.

1 Peter 3:15

But set apart יהוה Elohim in your hearts, and always be ready to give an answer to everyone asking you a reason concerning the expectation that is in you, with meekness and fear,