Colossians 4:6

American King James Version (1999)

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

Cross References

1 Chronicles 16:24

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

Psalm 105:2

Sing to him, sing psalms to him: talk you of all his wondrous works.

Psalm 119:13

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

Psalm 119:46

I will speak of your testimonies also before kings, and will not be ashamed.

Psalm 45:2

You are fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into your lips: therefore God has blessed you for ever.

Psalm 66:16

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

Proverbs 10:21

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

Proverbs 15:4

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

Proverbs 15:7

The lips of the wise disperse knowledge: but the heart of the foolish does not so.

Ecclesiastes 10:12

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

Ezekiel 43:24

And you shall offer them before the LORD, and the priests shall cast salt on them, and they shall offer them up for a burnt offering to the LORD.

Leviticus 2:13

And every oblation of your meat offering shall you season with salt; neither shall you suffer the salt of the covenant of your God to be lacking from your meat offering: with all your offerings you shall offer salt.

Matthew 5:13

You are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his flavor, with which shall it be salted? it is thereafter good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.

Mark 9:50

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

Luke 4:22

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

Ephesians 4:29

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

Deuteronomy 11:19

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

Colossians 3:16

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.

1 Peter 3:15

But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asks you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear: