Colossians 4:6

New English Translation

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

Cross References

1 Chronicles 16:24

Tell the nations about his splendor, tell all the nations about his miraculous deeds!

Psalm 105:2

Sing to him! Make music to him! Tell about all his miraculous deeds!

Psalm 119:13

With my lips I proclaim all the regulations you have revealed.

Psalm 119:46

I will speak about your regulations before kings and not be ashamed.

Psalm 45:2

You are the most handsome of all men! You speak in an impressive and fitting manner! For this reason God grants you continual blessings.

Psalm 66:16

Come! Listen, all you who are loyal to God! I will declare what he has done for me.

Proverbs 10:21

The teaching of the righteous feeds many, but fools die for lack of wisdom.

Proverbs 15:4

Speech that heals is like a life-giving tree, but a perverse tongue breaks the spirit.

Proverbs 15:7

The lips of the wise spread knowledge, but not so the heart of fools.

Ecclesiastes 10:12

The words of a wise person win him favor, but the words of a fool are self-destructive.

Ezekiel 43:24

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

Leviticus 2:13

Moreover, you must season every one of your grain offerings with salt; you must not allow the salt of the covenant of your God to be missing from your grain offering – on every one of your grain offerings you must present salt.

Matthew 5:13

“You are the salt of the earth. But if salt loses its flavor, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled on by people.

Mark 9:50

Salt is good, but if it loses its saltiness, how can you make it salty again? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with each other.”

Luke 4:22

All were speaking well of him, and were amazed at the gracious words coming out of his mouth. They said, “Isn’t this Joseph’s son?”

Ephesians 4:29

You must let no unwholesome word come out of your mouth, but only what is beneficial for the building up of the one in need, that it may give grace to those who hear.

Deuteronomy 11:19

Teach them to your children and speak of them as you sit in your house, as you walk along the road, as you lie down, and as you get up.

Colossians 3:16

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and exhorting one another with all wisdom, singing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, all with grace in your hearts to God.

1 Peter 3:15

But set Christ apart as Lord in your hearts and always be ready to give an answer to anyone who asks about the hope you possess.