Colossians 4:5

World English Bible (2000)

Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time.

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Referenced Verses

  • Eph 5:15-17 : 15 Therefore watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise; 16 redeeming the time, because the days are evil. 17 Therefore don't be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
  • 1 Thess 4:12 : 12 that you may walk properly toward those who are outside, and may have need of nothing.
  • 1 Tim 3:7 : 7 Moreover he must have good testimony from those who are outside, to avoid falling into reproach and the snare of the devil.
  • Jas 3:13 : 13 Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by his good conduct that his deeds are done in gentleness of wisdom.
  • Matt 10:16 : 16 "Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
  • Rom 16:19 : 19 For your obedience has become known to all. I rejoice therefore over you. But I desire to have you wise in that which is good, but innocent in that which is evil.
  • 1 Cor 5:12-13 : 12 For what have I to do with also judging those who are outside? Don't you judge those who are within? 13 But those who are outside, God judges. "Put away the wicked man from among yourselves."
  • 1 Cor 14:19-25 : 19 However in the assembly I would rather speak five words with my understanding, that I might instruct others also, than ten thousand words in another language. 20 Brothers, don't be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature. 21 In the law it is written, "By men of strange languages and by the lips of strangers I will speak to this people. Not even thus will they hear me, says the Lord." 22 Therefore other languages are for a sign, not to those who believe, but to the unbelieving; but prophesying is for a sign, not to the unbelieving, but to those who believe. 23 If therefore the whole assembly is assembled together and all speak with other languages, and unlearned or unbelieving people come in, won't they say that you are crazy? 24 But if all prophesy, and someone unbelieving or unlearned comes in, he is reproved by all, and he is judged by all. 25 And thus the secrets of his heart are revealed. So he will fall down on his face and worship God, declaring that God is among you indeed.
  • Mark 4:11 : 11 He said to them, "To you is given the mystery of the Kingdom of God, but to those who are outside, all things are done in parables,
  • Jas 3:17 : 17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
  • 1 Pet 3:1 : 1 In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don't obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word;
  • Ps 90:12 : 12 So teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.
  • Jas 1:5 : 5 But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach; and it will be given to him.
  • Col 3:16 : 16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.

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    14 Therefore he says, "Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you."

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    17 Therefore don't be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

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  • Col 4:3-4
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    3 praying together for us also, that God may open to us a door for the word, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds;

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  • Eph 4:17
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    17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,

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    3 For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries.

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    7 You also once walked in those, when you lived in them;

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    5 not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who don't know God;

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    4 Now this I say that no one may delude you with persuasiveness of speech.

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    1 I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called,

  • Eph 5:6-8
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    6 Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.

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    12 having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation.

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    8 and soundness of speech that can't be condemned; that he who opposes you may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say about us.

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    17 If you call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judges according to each man's work, pass the time of your living as foreigners here in reverent fear:

    18 knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers,

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    15 that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,

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    10 that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;

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    5 Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand.

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    8 which he made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence,

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    10 so that you may approve the things that are excellent; that you may be sincere and without offense to the day of Christ;

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    22 that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man, that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit;

    23 and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

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    26 "Be angry, and don't sin." Don't let the sun go down on your wrath,

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    31 Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander, be put away from you, with all malice.

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    2 seeing your pure behavior in fear.

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    2 But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

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    12 that you were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

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    12 to the end that you should walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own Kingdom and glory.

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    15 But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts; and always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear:

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    17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

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    14 Settle it therefore in your hearts not to meditate beforehand how to answer,

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    29 Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for building up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.

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    13 Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow let's go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit."

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    15 I speak as to wise men. Judge what I say.

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    7 for we walk by faith, not by sight.

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    11 Do this, knowing the time, that it is already time for you to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is now nearer to us than when we first believed.

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    28 whom we proclaim, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus;

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    10 to the intent that now through the assembly the manifold wisdom of God might be made known to the principalities and the powers in the heavenly places,

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    10 proving what is well pleasing to the Lord.

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    13 Let us walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy.

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    14 Let our people also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they may not be unfruitful.