Colossians 4:6 - English Standard Version 2016 Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person. 更多版本King James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer each one. Common English Bible 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 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 Let your speech be always in grace seasoned with salt: that you may know how you ought to answer every man. |
You are the most handsome of the sons of men; grace is poured upon your lips; therefore God has blessed you forever.
You shall present them before the Lord, and the priests shall sprinkle salt on them and offer them up as a burnt offering to the Lord.
You shall season all your grain offerings with salt. You shall not let the salt of the covenant with your God be missing from your grain offering; with all your offerings you shall offer salt.
“You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under people’s feet.
Salt is good, but if the salt has lost its saltiness, how will you make it salty again? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.”
And all spoke well of him and marveled at the gracious words that were coming from his mouth. And they said, “Is not this Joseph’s son?”
Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.
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.
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.
but in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect,