Colossians 4:6 - Revised Standard Version CI

⁶ Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer every 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.

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 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 thy mouth.

Psalm 119:46

I will also speak of thy testimonies before kings, and shall not be put to shame;

Psalm 45:2

You are the fairest of the sons of men; grace is poured upon your lips; therefore God has blessed you for ever.

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

The words of a wise man's mouth win him favor, but the lips of a fool consume him.

Ezekiel 43:24

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

Leviticus 2:13

You shall season all your cereal offerings with salt; you shall not let the salt of the covenant with your God be lacking from your cereal offering; 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 shall its saltness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trodden under foot by men.

Mark 9:50

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

Luke 4:22

And all spoke well of him, 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 evil talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for edifying, as fits the occasion, that it may impart grace to those who hear.

Deuteronomy 11:19

And you shall teach them to your children, talking of them when you are sitting in your house, and when you are walking by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.

Colossians 3:16

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

1 Peter 3:15

but in your hearts reverence Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to make a defense to any one who calls you to account for the hope that is in you, yet do it with gentleness and reverence;