Colossians 4:5

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

in wisdom walk ye toward those without, the time forestalling;

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Referenced Verses

  • Eph 5:15-17 : 15 See, then, how exactly ye walk, not as unwise, but as wise, 16 redeeming the time, because the days are evil; 17 because of this become not fools, but -- understanding what `is' the will of the Lord,
  • 1 Thess 4:12 : 12 that ye may walk becomingly unto those without, and may have lack of nothing.
  • 1 Tim 3:7 : 7 and it behoveth him also to have a good testimony from those without, that he may not fall into reproach and a snare of the devil.
  • Jas 3:13 : 13 Who `is' wise and intelligent among you? let him shew out of the good behaviour his works in meekness of wisdom,
  • Matt 10:16 : 16 `Lo, I do send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves, be ye therefore wise as the serpents, and simple as the doves.
  • Rom 16:19 : 19 for your obedience did reach to all; I rejoice, therefore, as regards you, and I wish you to be wise, indeed, as to the good, and harmless as to the evil;
  • 1 Cor 5:12-13 : 12 for what have I also those without to judge? those within do ye not judge? 13 and those without God doth judge; and put ye away the evil from among yourselves.
  • 1 Cor 14:19-25 : 19 but in an assembly I wish to speak five words through my understanding, that others also I may instruct, rather than myriads of words in an `unknown' tongue. 20 Brethren, become not children in the understanding, but in the evil be ye babes, and in the understanding become ye perfect; 21 in the law it hath been written, that, `With other tongues and with other lips I will speak to this people, and not even so will they hear Me, saith the Lord;' 22 so that the tongues are for a sign, not to the believing, but to the unbelieving; and the prophesy `is' not for the unbelieving, but for the believing, 23 If, therefore, the whole assembly may come together, to the same place, and all may speak with tongues, and there may come in unlearned or unbelievers, will they not say that ye are mad? 24 and if all may prophecy, and any one may come in, an unbeliever or unlearned, he is convicted by all, he is discerned by all, 25 and so the secrets of his heart become manifest, and so having fallen upon `his' face, he will bow before God, declaring that God really is among you.
  • Mark 4:11 : 11 and he said to them, `To you it hath been given to know the secret of the reign of God, but to those who are without, in similes are all the things done;
  • Jas 3:17 : 17 and the wisdom from above, first, indeed, is pure, then peaceable, gentle, easily entreated, full of kindness and good fruits, uncontentious, and unhypocritical: --
  • 1 Pet 3:1 : 1 In like manner, the wives, be ye subject to your own husbands, that even if certain are disobedient to the word, through the conversation of the wives, without the word, they may be won,
  • Ps 90:12 : 12 To number our days aright let `us' know, And we bring the heart to wisdom.
  • Jas 1:5 : 5 and if any of you do lack wisdom, let him ask from God, who is giving to all liberally, and not reproaching, and it shall be given to him;
  • Col 3:16 : 16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing each other, in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs, in grace singing in your hearts to the Lord;

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    14 wherefore he saith, `Arouse thyself, thou who art sleeping, and arise out of the dead, and the Christ shall shine upon thee.'

    15 See, then, how exactly ye walk, not as unwise, but as wise,

    16 redeeming the time, because the days are evil;

    17 because of this become not fools, but -- understanding what `is' the will of the Lord,

  • Col 4:6
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    6 your word always in grace -- with salt being seasoned -- to know how it behoveth you to answer each one.

  • 1 Thess 4:12
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    12 that ye may walk becomingly unto those without, and may have lack of nothing.

  • Col 4:3-4
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    3 praying at the same time also for us, that God may open to us a door for the word, to speak the secret of the Christ, because of which also I have been bound,

    4 that I may manifest it, as it behoveth me to speak;

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    17 This, then, I say, and I testify in the Lord; ye are no more to walk, as also the other nations walk, in the vanity of their mind,

  • 1 Pet 4:3-4
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    3 for sufficient to us `is' the past time of life the will of the nations to have wrought, having walked in lasciviousnesses, desires, excesses of wines, revelings, drinking-bouts, and unlawful idolatries,

    4 in which they think it strange -- your not running with them to the same excess of dissoluteness, speaking evil,

  • Col 3:7
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    7 in which also ye -- ye did walk once, when ye lived in them;

  • 1 Thess 4:5
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    5 not in the affection of desire, as also the nations that were not knowing God,

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    4 and this I say, that no one may beguile you in enticing words,

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    1 Call upon you, then, do I -- the prisoner of the Lord -- to walk worthily of the calling with which ye were called,

  • Eph 5:6-8
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    6 Let no one deceive you with vain words, for because of these things cometh the anger of God upon the sons of the disobedience,

    7 become not, then, partakers with them,

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    12 having your behaviour among the nations right, that in that which they speak against you as evil-doers, of the good works having beheld, they may glorify God in a day of inspection.

  • Titus 2:8
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    8 discourse sound, irreprehensible, that he who is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having nothing evil to say concerning you.

  • 1 Pet 1:17-18
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    17 and if on the Father ye do call, who without acceptance of persons is judging according to the work of each, in fear the time of your sojourn pass ye,

    18 having known that, not with corruptible things -- silver or gold -- were ye redeemed from your foolish behaviour delivered by fathers,

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    15 that ye may become blameless and harmless, children of God, unblemished in the midst of a generation crooked and perverse, among whom ye do appear as luminaries in the world,

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    10 to your walking worthily of the Lord to all pleasing, in every good work being fruitful, and increasing to the knowledge of God,

  • Phil 4:5
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    5 let your forbearance be known to all men; the Lord `is' near;

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    8 in which He did abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence,

  • Phil 1:10
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    10 for your proving the things that differ, that ye may be pure and offenceless -- to a day of Christ,

  • Eph 4:22-23
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    22 ye are to put off concerning the former behaviour the old man, that is corrupt according to the desires of the deceit,

    23 and to be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

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    14 peace pursue with all, and the separation, apart from which no one shall see the Lord,

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    13 Who `is' wise and intelligent among you? let him shew out of the good behaviour his works in meekness of wisdom,

  • Eph 4:26
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    26 be angry and do not sin; let not the sun go down upon your wrath,

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    31 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil-speaking, be put away from you, with all malice,

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    2 having beheld your pure behaviour in fear,

  • 2 Cor 4:2
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    2 but did renounce for ourselves the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor deceitfully using the word of God, but by the manifestation of the truth recommending ourselves unto every conscience of men, before God;

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    12 that ye were at that time apart from Christ, having been alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, having no hope, and without God, in the world;

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    12 for your walking worthily of God, who is calling you to His own reign and glory.

  • 1 Pet 3:15
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    15 and the Lord God sanctify in your hearts. And `be' ready always for defence to every one who is asking of you an account concerning the hope that `is' in you, with meekness and fear;

  • Jas 3:17
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    17 and the wisdom from above, first, indeed, is pure, then peaceable, gentle, easily entreated, full of kindness and good fruits, uncontentious, and unhypocritical: --

  • Luke 21:14
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    14 `Settle, then, to your hearts, not to meditate beforehand to reply,

  • Eph 4:29
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    29 Let no corrupt word out of your mouth go forth, but what is good unto the needful building up, that it may give grace to the hearers;

  • Jas 4:13
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    13 Go, now, ye who are saying, `To-day and to-morrow we will go on to such a city, and will pass there one year, and traffic, and make gain;'

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    15 as to wise men I speak -- judge ye what I say:

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    7 for through faith we walk, not through sight --

  • Rom 13:11
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    11 And this, knowing the time, that for us, the hour already `is' to be aroused out of sleep, for now nearer `is' our salvation than when we did believe;

  • Col 1:28
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    28 whom we proclaim, warning every man, and teaching every man, in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus,

  • Eph 3:10
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    10 that there might be made known now to the principalities and the authorities in the heavenly `places', through the assembly, the manifold wisdom of God,

  • Eph 5:10
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    10 proving what is well-pleasing to the Lord,

  • Rom 13:13
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    13 as in day-time, let us walk becomingly; not in revellings and drunkennesses, not in chamberings and lasciviousnesses, not in strife and emulation;

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    14 and let them learn -- ours also -- to be leading in good works to the necessary uses, that they may not be unfruitful.

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