Colossians 4:6

KJV1611 – Modern English

Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.

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  • 1 Pet 3:15 : 15 But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and always be ready to give a defense to everyone who asks you a reason for the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear;
  • Eph 4:29 : 29 Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth, but what is good for necessary edification, that it may impart grace to the hearers.
  • Mark 9:50 : 50 Salt is good, but if the salt loses its flavor, how will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace with one another.
  • Matt 5:13 : 13 You are the salt of the earth: but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by 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 Your testimonies also before kings, and will not be ashamed.
  • Prov 15:7 : 7 The lips of the wise spread knowledge, but the heart of the foolish does not.
  • Prov 25:11-12 : 11 A word spoken at the right time is like apples of gold in settings of silver. 12 Like an earring of gold and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise rebuker to 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 him up.
  • Prov 15:4 : 4 A wholesome tongue is a tree of life, but perverseness in it is a break in the spirit.
  • Prov 26:4-5 : 4 Do not answer a fool according to his folly, lest you also be like him. 5 Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own eyes.
  • Prov 16:21-24 : 21 The wise in heart shall be called prudent, and the sweetness of the lips increases learning. 22 Understanding is a wellspring of life to him who has it, but the instruction of fools is folly. 23 The heart of the wise teaches his mouth, and adds learning to his lips. 24 Pleasant words are like a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and health to the bones.
  • Prov 22:17-18 : 17 Incline your ear and hear the words of the wise, and apply your heart to my knowledge. 18 For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you; they shall all be ready on your lips.
  • Prov 10:21 : 21 The lips of the righteous feed many, but fools die for lack of wisdom.
  • Lev 2:13 : 13 And every offering of your grain offering you shall season with salt; you shall not allow the salt of the covenant of your God to be lacking from your grain offering. With all your offerings you shall offer salt.
  • Deut 6:6-7 : 6 And these words, which I command you this day, shall be in your heart: 7 And you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.
  • Deut 11:19 : 19 And you shall teach them to your children, speaking of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up.
  • 2 Kgs 2:20-22 : 20 And he said, Bring me a new bowl, and put salt in it. And they brought it to him. 21 And he went forth to the spring of the waters, and cast the salt in there, and said, Thus says the LORD, I have healed these waters; there shall not be from here any more death or barren land. 22 So the waters were healed to this day, according to the saying of Elisha which he spoke.
  • 1 Chr 16:24 : 24 Declare his glory among the nations; his marvelous works among all peoples.
  • Ps 37:30-31 : 30 The mouth of the righteous speaks wisdom, and his tongue talks of justice. 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: behold, I have not restrained my lips, O LORD, You know. 10 I have not hidden Your righteousness within my heart; I have declared Your faithfulness and Your salvation: I have not concealed Your lovingkindness and Your truth from the great congregation.
  • Ps 45:2 : 2 You are more beautiful than the children of men: grace is poured into your lips: therefore God has blessed you forever.
  • Ps 66:16 : 16 Come and hear, all you that fear God, and I will declare what he has done for my soul.
  • Ps 71:15-18 : 15 My mouth shall show forth your righteousness and your salvation all the day; for I do not know the limits thereof. 16 I will go in the strength of the Lord GOD; I will make mention of your righteousness, even of yours only. 17 O God, you have taught me from my youth; and until now have I declared your wondrous works. 18 Now also when I am old and gray-headed, O God, do not forsake me, until I have shown your strength to this generation, and your power to everyone that is to come.
  • Ps 71:23-24 : 23 My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing to you, and my soul, which you have redeemed. 24 My tongue also shall talk of your righteousness all the day long; for they are confounded, for they are brought to shame, who 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, showing to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he has done.
  • Ps 105:2 : 2 Sing to him, sing psalms to him: talk of all his wondrous works.
  • Ps 119:13 : 13 With my lips I have declared all the judgments of Your mouth.
  • Mal 3:16-18 : 16 Then those who feared the LORD spoke often one to another: and the LORD listened and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for those who feared the LORD and thought upon his name. 17 And they shall be mine, says the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spares his own son who serves him. 18 Then shall you return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between one who serves God and one who does not serve him.
  • Matt 12:34-35 : 34 O generation of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. 35 A good man out of the good treasure of the heart brings forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure brings forth evil things.
  • Luke 4:22 : 22 And all bore witness to him, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth. And they said, Is this not Joseph's son?
  • Luke 20:20-40 : 20 And they watched him, and sent spies, who pretended to be righteous men, that they might trap him in his words, so they could deliver him to the power and authority of the governor. 21 And they asked him, saying, Teacher, we know that you say and teach rightly, neither do you show favoritism, but teach the way of God truly: 22 Is it lawful for us to give tribute to Caesar, or not? 23 But he perceived their trickery, and said to them, Why do you test me? 24 Show me a denarius. Whose image and inscription does it have? They answered and said, Caesar's. 25 And he said to them, Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's. 26 And they could not trap him in his words before the people: and they marveled at his answer, and kept silent. 27 Then some of the Sadducees, who deny that there is any resurrection, came to him, 28 Saying, Teacher, Moses wrote to us, If any man's brother dies, having a wife, and he dies without children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up offspring for his brother. 29 There were therefore seven brothers: and the first took a wife, and died without children. 30 And the second took her as wife, and he died childless. 31 And the third took her; and likewise all seven left no children, and died. 32 Last of all the woman died also. 33 Therefore in the resurrection whose wife is she? for all seven had her as wife. 34 And Jesus answering said to them, The children of this world marry, and are given in marriage: 35 But those who are counted worthy to attain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage: 36 Nor can they die anymore: for they are equal to the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection. 37 Now that the dead are raised, even Moses showed in the bush passage, when he called 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 to him. 39 Then some of the scribes answered and said, Teacher, you have spoken well. 40 And after that they dared not ask him any question at all.

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