Colossians 4:6 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

⁶ Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt,  so that you may know how you should answer each person.

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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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ Let your speech be always in grace seasoned with salt: that you may know how you ought to answer every man.

Colossians 4:6 Tagairtí Cros

1 Chronicles 16:24

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

Proverbs 10:21

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

Proverbs 15:4

The tongue that heals is a tree of life, but a devious tongue  breaks the spirit.

Proverbs 15:7

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

Ecclesiastes 10:12

The words from the mouth of a wise person are gracious, but the lips of a fool consume him.

Ezekiel 43:24

You are to present them before the Lord; the priests will throw salt on them and sacrifice them as a burnt offering to the Lord.

Leviticus 2:13

You are to season each of your grain offerings with salt; you must not omit from your grain offering the salt of the covenant  with your God. You are to present salt with each of your offerings.

Matthew 5:13

‘You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt should lose its taste, how can it be made salty?   It’s no longer good for anything but to be thrown out and trampled under people’s feet.

Mark 9:50

Salt is good, but if the salt should lose its flavour, how can you season it?   Have salt   among yourselves, and be at peace   with one another.’

Luke 4:22

They were all speaking well of him  and were amazed by the gracious words that came from his mouth; yet they said, ‘Isn’t this Joseph’s son? ’

Ephesians 4:29

No foul language should come from your mouth, but only what is good for building up someone in need,  so that it gives grace to those who hear.

Deuteronomy 11:19

Teach them to your children,  talking about them when you sit in your house and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.

Colossians 3:16

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

1 Peter 3:15

but in your hearts regard  Christ  the Lord as holy, ready at any time to give a defence to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you.