Colossians 4:6

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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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  • 1 Pet 3:15 : 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:
  • Eph 4:29 : 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.
  • Mark 9:50 : 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.›
  • Matt 5:13 : 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.›
  • Col 3:16 : 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.
  • Ps 119:46 : 46 I will speak of thy testimonies also before kings, and will not be ashamed.
  • Prov 15:7 : 7 ¶ The lips of the wise disperse knowledge: but the heart of the foolish [doeth] not so.
  • Prov 25:11-12 : 11 ¶ A word fitly spoken [is like] apples of gold in pictures of silver. 12 [As] an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, [so is] a wise reprover upon an obedient ear.
  • Eccl 10:12 : 12 ¶ The words of a wise man's mouth [are] gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.
  • Prov 15:4 : 4 ¶ A wholesome tongue [is] a tree of life: but perverseness therein [is] a breach in the spirit.
  • Prov 26:4-5 : 4 ¶ Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him. 5 Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit.
  • Prov 16:21-24 : 21 ¶ The wise in heart shall be called prudent: and the sweetness of the lips increaseth learning. 22 ¶ Understanding [is] a wellspring of life unto him that hath it: but the instruction of fools [is] folly. 23 ¶ The heart of the wise teacheth his mouth, and addeth learning to his lips. 24 ¶ Pleasant words [are as] an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
  • Prov 22:17-18 : 17 ¶ Bow down thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thine heart unto my knowledge. 18 For [it is] a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee; they shall withal be fitted in thy lips.
  • Prov 10:21 : 21 The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of wisdom.
  • Lev 2:13 : 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.
  • Deut 6:6-7 : 6 And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: 7 And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
  • Deut 11:19 : 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.
  • 2 Kgs 2:20-22 : 20 And he said, Bring me a new cruse, and put salt therein. And they brought [it] to him. 21 And he went forth unto the spring of the waters, and cast the salt in there, and said, Thus saith the LORD, I have healed these waters; there shall not be from thence any more death or barren [land]. 22 So the waters were healed unto this day, according to the saying of Elisha which he spake.
  • 1 Chr 16:24 : 24 Declare his glory among the heathen; his marvellous works among all nations.
  • Ps 37:30-31 : 30 The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue talketh of judgment. 31 The law of his God [is] in his heart; none of his steps shall slide.
  • Ps 40:9-9 : 9 I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest. 10 I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great congregation.
  • Ps 45:2 : 2 Thou art fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee for ever.
  • Ps 66:16 : 16 Come [and] hear, all ye that fear God, and I will declare what he hath done for my soul.
  • Ps 71:15-18 : 15 My mouth shall shew forth thy righteousness [and] thy salvation all the day; for I know not the numbers [thereof]. 16 I will go in the strength of the Lord GOD: I will make mention of thy righteousness, [even] of thine only. 17 O God, thou hast taught me from my youth: and hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works. 18 Now also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto [this] generation, [and] thy power to every one [that] is to come.
  • Ps 71:23-24 : 23 My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing unto thee; and my soul, which thou hast redeemed. 24 My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the day long: for they are confounded, for they are brought unto shame, that seek my hurt.
  • Ps 78:3-4 : 3 Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us. 4 We will not hide [them] from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done.
  • Ps 105:2 : 2 Sing unto him, sing psalms unto him: talk ye of all his wondrous works.
  • Ps 119:13 : 13 ¶ With my lips have I declared all the judgments of thy mouth.
  • Mal 3:16-18 : 16 Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard [it], and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name. 17 And they shall be mine, saith the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him. 18 Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.
  • Matt 12:34-35 : 34 ‹O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.› 35 ‹A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.›
  • Luke 4:22 : 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?
  • Luke 20:20-40 : 20 ¶ And they watched [him], and sent forth spies, which should feign themselves just men, that they might take hold of his words, that so they might deliver him unto the power and authority of the governor. 21 And they asked him, saying, Master, we know that thou sayest and teachest rightly, neither acceptest thou the person [of any], but teachest the way of God truly: 22 Is it lawful for us to give tribute unto Caesar, or no? 23 But he perceived their craftiness, and said unto them, ‹Why tempt ye me?› 24 ‹Shew me a penny. Whose image and superscription hath it?› They answered and said, Caesar's. 25 And he said unto them, ‹Render therefore unto Caesar the things which be Caesar's, and unto God the things which be God's.› 26 And they could not take hold of his words before the people: and they marvelled at his answer, and held their peace. 27 ¶ Then came to [him] certain of the Sadducees, which deny that there is any resurrection; and they asked him, 28 Saying, Master, Moses wrote unto us, If any man's brother die, having a wife, and he die without children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother. 29 There were therefore seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and died without children. 30 And the second took her to wife, and he died childless. 31 And the third took her; and in like manner the seven also: and they left no children, and died. 32 Last of all the woman died also. 33 Therefore in the resurrection whose wife of them is she? for seven had her to wife. 34 And Jesus answering said unto them, ‹The children of this world marry, and are given in marriage:› 35 ‹But they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage:› 36 ‹Neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection.› 37 ‹Now that the dead are raised, even Moses shewed at the bush, when he calleth the Lord the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.› 38 ‹For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living: for all live unto him.› 39 ¶ Then certain of the scribes answering said, Master, thou hast well said. 40 And after that they durst not ask him any [question at all].

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