Colossians 4:6

Coverdale Bible (1535)

Let youre speach be allwaye fauorable, seasoned with salt, that ye maye knowe how to answere euery man.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ὁ λόγος ὑμῶν πάντοτε ἐν χάριτι, ἅλατι ἠρτυμένος, εἰδέναι πῶς δεῖ ὑμᾶς ἑνὶ ἑκάστῳ ἀποκρίνεσθαι.

Transliteration

The logos of you pantote in chariti, with halati ērtymenos, to eidenai how dei you to each one to apokrinesthai.

Grammar Details

• *logos*: nominative, masculine, singular - word/speech
• *pantote*: adverb - always/at all times
• *chariti*: dative, feminine, singular - grace/favor
• *halati*: dative, neuter, singular - salt
• *ērtymenos*: perfect participle, passive, nominative, masculine, singular - seasoned/flavored
• *eidenai*: perfect infinitive, active - to know
• *dei*: present indicative, active, 3rd singular, impersonal - it is necessary
• *apokrinesthai*: present infinitive, middle - to answer/respond

Word Meanings

• *logos*: word/speech/message/utterance
• *pantote*: always/at all times/ever
• *chariti*: grace/favor/kindness/goodwill
• *halati*: salt/wisdom/preservation agent
• *ērtymenos*: seasoned/flavored/prepared
• *eidenai*: to know/understand/recognize
• *apokrinesthai*: to answer/respond/reply

Referenced Verses

• 1 Pet 3:15 : 15 but sanctifye the LORDE God in youre hertes. Be ready allwayes to geue an answere to euery ma, that axeth you a reason of the hope that is in you, and that with mekenes & feare,
• Eph 4:29 : 29 Let no filthy communicacion proceade out of youre mouth, but that which is good to edifye withall, wha nede is, that it be gracious to heare.
• Mark 9:50 : 50 The salt is good: but yf ye salt be vnsauery, wherwith all shal it be salted? Haue salt in you & peace amonge yor selues one with another.
• Matt 5:13 : 13 Ye are ye salt of the earth, but and yf the salt haue lost his saltnes, what can be salted therwith? It is thence forth good for nothynge, but to be cast out, and to be trodden vnder fote of men.
• Col 3:16 : 16 Let ye worde of Christ dwell in you plenteously in all wyssdome. Teach and exhorte youre awne selues with psalmes and ymnes, and spirituall songes which haue fauoure with them, synginge in youre hertes to the LORDE.
• Ps 119:46 : 46 I wil speake of thy testimonies euen before kynges, and wil not be ashamed.
• Prov 15:7 : 7 A wyse mouth poureth out knowlege, but ye herte of the foolish doth not so.
• Prov 25:11-12 : 11 A worde spoken in due season, is like apples of golde in a syluer dyshe. 12 The correccion of the wyse is to an obedient eare, a golden cheyne and a Iewel of golde.
• Eccl 10:12 : 12 The wordes out of a wyse mans mouth are gracious, but the lippes of a foole wil destroye himself.
• Prov 15:4 : 4 A wholsome tonge is a tre of life, but he that abuseth it, hath a broken mynde.
• Prov 26:4-5 : 4 Geue not the foole an answere after his foolishnesse, lest thou become like vnto him: 5 but make ye foole an answere to his foolishnesse, lest he be wyse in his owne coceate.
• Prov 16:21-24 : 21 Who so hath a wyse vnderstondinge, is called to councell: but he yt can speake fayre, getteth more riches. 22 Vnderstondinge is a well of life vnto him yt hath it, as for ye chastenynge of fooles, it is but foolishnesse. 23 The herte of the wyse enfourmeth his mouth, and amendeth ye doctryne in his lyppes. 24 Fayre wordes are an hony combe, a refreshinge of ye mynde, & health of ye bones.
• Prov 22:17-18 : 17 My sonne, bowe downe thine eare, and herken vnto the wordes of wy?dome, applye yi mynde vnto my doctryne: 18 for it is a pleasaunt thinge yf thou kepe it in thine herte, and practise it in thy mouth:
• Prov 10:21 : 21 The lippes of the rightuous fede a whole multitude, but fooles shal dye in their owne foly.
• Lev 2:13 : 13 All thy meatofferynges shalt thou salt. And thy meatofferynge shal neuer be without ye salt of the couenaunt of thy God: for in all thy offerynges shalt thou offre salt.
• Deut 6:6-7 : 6 And these wordes, which I commaude the this daie, shalt thou take to hert, 7 & shalt whet them vpon yi children, and shalt talke of them, wha thou syttest in thyne house, & whan thou walkest by the waie: whan thou lyest downe, & wha thou rysest vp.
• Deut 11:19 : 19 and teach them youre children, so that thou talke therof, whan thou syttest in thine house, or walkest by the waye: whan thou lyest downe, and whan thou rysest vp:
• 2 Kgs 2:20-22 : 20 He sayde: Bringe me hither a new vessell, & put salt in it. And they broughte it him. 21 Then wete he forth vnto the well of water, and cast the salt therin, & sayde: Thus sayeth the LORDE: I haue healed this water: from hence forth shal there no deed ner vnfrutefulnes come of it. 22 So the water was healed vnto this daye, acordinge to the worde of Eliseus which he spake.
• 1 Chr 16:24 : 24 Declare his holynes amoge the Heythe, & his wonderous workes amonge ye people.
• Ps 37:30-31 : 30 Yee the rightuous shal possesse ye lode, & dwell therin for euer. 31 The mouth of the rightuous is exercised in wy?dome, & his toge talketh of iudgment.
• Ps 40:9-9 : 9 I wil preach of yi rightuousnesse in the greate congregacion: Lo, I wil not refrayne my lippes, o LORDE, & that thou knowest. 10 I do not hyde yi rightuousnes in my hert, my talkynge is of thy treuth and sauynge health: I kepe not thy louynge mercy and faithfulnesse backe from the greate congregacion.
• Ps 45:2 : 2 My tonge is ye penne of a ready wryter.
• Ps 66:16 : 16 Sela. O come hither and herke (all ye that feare God) I wil tell you, what he hath done for my soule.
• Ps 71:15-18 : 15 Thou (o God) hast lerned me fro my youth vp vntill now, therfore wil I tell of yi wonderous workes. 16 Forsake me not (o God) in myne olde age, when I am gray headed: vntill I haue shewed thyne arme vnto childers children, & thy power to all them that are yet for to come. 17 Thy rightuousnes (o God) is very hie, thou that doest greate thinges: o God, who is like vnto the? 18 O what greate troubles & aduersite hast thou shewed me? & yet didest thou turne & refresh me, yee & broughtest me from the depe of the earth agayne.
• Ps 71:23-24 : 23 My tonge talketh of thy rightuousnesse all the daye longe, 24 for they are confounded & brought vnto shame, yt sought to do me euel.
• Ps 78:3-4 : 3 Which we haue herde and knowne, and soch as oure fathers haue tolde vs. 4 That we shulde not hyde them from the children of the generacions to come: but to shewe the honoure of the LORDE, his might and wonderfull workes that he hath done.
• Ps 105:2 : 2 O let youre songes be of him: prayse him, and let youre talkynge be of all his wonderous workes.
• Ps 119:13 : 13 With my lippes wil I be tellynge out all the iudgmentes of thy mouth.
• Mal 3:16-18 : 16 But they that feare God, saye thus one to another: The LORDE cosidreth and heareth it. Yee it is before him a memoriall boke written for soch as feare the LORDE, and remembre his name. 17 And in the daye that I wil make (saieth ye LORDE of hoostes) they shalbe myne owne possession: and I will fauoure them, like as a man fauoureth his owne sonne, that doth him seruyce. 18 Turne you therfore, and considre what difference is betwixte the rightuous and vngodly: betwixte him that serueth God, ad him that serueth him not.
• Matt 12:34-35 : 34 O ye generacio of vypers, how can ye speake good, whan ye youre selues are euell? For of ye abundace of ye hert ye mouth speaketh. 35 A good man out of the good treasure of his hert, bringeth forth good thinges: & an euel man out of his euell treasure, bringeth forth euell thinges.
• Luke 4:22 : 22 And they all gaue him wytnesse, and wodred at the gracious wordes, which proceaded out of his mouth, and they saide: Is not this Iosephs sonne?
• Luke 20:20-40 : 20 And they watched hi, & sent forth spyes, which shulde fayne the selues perfecte, that they might take him in his wordes, to delyuer him vnto the power and auctorite of ye debite. 21 And they axed him, & sayde: Master, we knowe that thou sayest & teachest right, and regardest the outwarde appearauce of no man, but teachest the waye of God truly. 22 Is it laufull, that we geue tribute vnto the Emperoure, or not? 23 But he perceaued their craftynes, and sayde vnto them: Why tepte ye me? 24 Shewe me the peny. Whose ymage and superscripcion hath it? They answered, and sayde: The Emperours. 25 Then sayde he vnto them: Geue the vnto the Emperoure, that which is the Emperours: & vnto God, that which is Gods. 26 And they coude not reproue his worde before the people, and marueyled at his answere, and helde their peace. 27 Then came vnto him certayne of the Saduces (which holde that there is no resurreccion) and axed him, 28 and sayde: Master, Moses wrote vnto vs, yf eny mans brother dye hauynge a wife, and dyeth without childre, then shal his brother take his wife, and rayse vp sede vnto his brother. 29 Now were there seue brethre: the first toke a wife, and dyed childlesse: 30 and the seconde toke the wife, and deyed without children also: 31 and the thirde toke her, likewyse all the seue, and left no children behynde the, and dyed. 32 At the last after them all, the woman dyed also. 33 Now in the resurreccion, whose wife shal she be of them For seuen had her to wife. 34 And Iesus answered and saide vnto them: The childre of this worlde mary, & are maried, 35 but they yt shalbe worthy to enioye that worlde and the resurreccion from the deed, shal nether mary ner be maried, 36 for they can dye nomore. For they are like vnto the angels, and are the children of God, in so moch as they are children of the resurreccion. 37 But that the deed ryse agayne, hath Moses also signified besydes the bush, when he called the LORDE, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Iacob. 38 But God is not a God of the deed but of the lyuynge, for they lyue all vnto him. 39 Then answered certayne of the scrybes, and sayde: Master, thou haist sayde well. 40 And from that tyme forth they durst axe him no mo questions.