Colossians 4:6 - 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.

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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.

English Standard Version 2016

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

Colossians 4:6 Marejeleo ya Msalaba

1 Chronicles 16:24

Declare his glory among the heathen; His marvellous works among all nations.

Psalm 105:2

Sing unto him, sing psalms unto him: Talk ye of all his wondrous works.

Psalm 119:13

With my lips have I declared All the judgments of thy mouth.

Psalm 119:46

I will speak of thy testimonies also before kings, And will not be ashamed.

Psalm 45:2

Thou art fairer than the children of men: Grace is poured into thy lips: Therefore God hath blessed thee for ever.

Psalm 66:16

Come and hear, all ye that fear God, And I will declare what he hath 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 doeth 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 thou shalt offer them before the LORD, and the priests shall cast salt upon them, and they shall offer them up for a burnt offering unto the LORD.

Leviticus 2:13

And every oblation of thy meat offering shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meat offering: with all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt.

Matthew 5:13

Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth 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 saltness, wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another.

Luke 4:22

And all bare 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 unto the hearers.

Deuteronomy 11:19

And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest 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 asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear: