Colossians 4:6

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

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

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  • 1 Pet 3:15 : 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;
  • Eph 4:29 : 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;
  • Mark 9:50 : 50 The salt `is' good, but if the salt may become saltless, in what will ye season `it'? Have in yourselves salt, and have peace in one another.'
  • Matt 5:13 : 13 `Ye are the salt of the land, but if the salt may lose savour, in what shall it be salted? for nothing is it good henceforth, except to be cast without, and to be trodden down by men.
  • 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;
  • Ps 119:46 : 46 And I speak of Thy testimonies before kings, And I am not ashamed.
  • Prov 15:7 : 7 The lips of the wise scatter knowledge, And the heart of fools `is' not right.
  • Prov 25:11-12 : 11 Apples of gold in imagery of silver, `Is' the word spoken at its fit times. 12 A ring of gold, and an ornament of pure gold, `Is' the wise reprover to an attentive ear.
  • Eccl 10:12 : 12 Words of the mouth of the wise `are' gracious, And the lips of a fool swallow him up.
  • Prov 15:4 : 4 A healed tongue `is' a tree of life, And perverseness in it -- a breach in the spirit.
  • Prov 26:4-5 : 4 Answer not a fool according to his folly, Lest thou be like to him -- even thou. 5 Answer a fool according to his folly, Lest he be wise in his own eyes.
  • Prov 16:21-24 : 21 To the wise in heart is called, `Intelligent,' And sweetness of lips increaseth learning. 22 A fountain of life `is' understanding to its possessors, The instruction of fools is folly. 23 The heart of the wise causeth his mouth to act wisely, And by his lips he increaseth learning, 24 Sayings of pleasantness `are' a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul, and healing to the bone.
  • Prov 22:17-18 : 17 Incline thine ear, and hear words of the wise, And thy heart set to my knowledge, 18 For they are pleasant when thou dost keep them in thy heart, They are prepared together for thy lips.
  • Prov 10:21 : 21 The lips of the righteous delight many, And fools for lack of heart die.
  • Lev 2:13 : 13 And every offering -- thy present -- with salt thou dost season, and thou dost not let the salt of the covenant of thy God cease from thy present; with all thine offerings thou dost bring near salt.
  • Deut 6:6-7 : 6 and these words which I am commanding thee to-day have been on thine heart, 7 and thou hast repeated them to thy sons, and spoken of them in thy sitting in thine house, and in thy walking in the way, and in thy lying down, and in thy rising up,
  • Deut 11:19 : 19 and ye have taught them to your sons, by speaking of them in thy sitting in thy house, and in thy going in the way, and in thy lying down, and in thy rising up,
  • 2 Kgs 2:20-22 : 20 And he saith, `Bring to me a new dish, and place there salt;' and they bring `it' unto him, 21 and he goeth out unto the source of the waters, and casteth there salt, and saith, `Thus said Jehovah, I have given healing to these waters; there is not thence any more death and sterility.' 22 And the waters are healed unto this day, according to the word of Elisha, that he spake.
  • 1 Chr 16:24 : 24 Rehearse among nations His glory, Among all the peoples His wonders.
  • Ps 37:30-31 : 30 The mouth of the righteous uttereth wisdom, And his tongue speaketh judgment. 31 The law of his God `is' his heart, His steps do not slide.
  • Ps 40:9-9 : 9 I have proclaimed tidings of righteousness In the great assembly, lo, my lips I restrain not, O Jehovah, Thou hast known. 10 Thy righteousness I have not concealed In the midst of my heart, Thy faithfulness and Thy salvation I have told, I have not hidden Thy kindness and Thy truth, To the great assembly.
  • Ps 45:2 : 2 Thou hast been beautified above the sons of men, Grace hath been poured into thy lips, Therefore hath God blessed thee to the age.
  • Ps 66:16 : 16 Come, hear, all ye who fear God, And I recount what he did for my soul.
  • Ps 71:15-18 : 15 My mouth recounteth Thy righteousness, All the day Thy salvation, For I have not known the numbers. 16 I come in the might of the Lord Jehovah, I mention Thy righteousness -- Thine only. 17 God, Thou hast taught me from my youth, And hitherto I declare Thy wonders. 18 And also unto old age and grey hairs, O God, forsake me not, Till I declare Thy strength to a generation, To every one that cometh Thy might.
  • Ps 71:23-24 : 23 My lips cry aloud when I sing praise to Thee, And my soul that Thou hast redeemed, 24 My tongue also all the day uttereth Thy righteousness, Because ashamed -- because confounded, Have been those seeking my evil!
  • Ps 78:3-4 : 3 That we have heard and do know, And our fathers have recounted to us. 4 We do not hide from their sons, To a later generation recounting praises of Jehovah, And His strength, and His wonders that He hath done.
  • Ps 105:2 : 2 Sing ye to Him -- sing praise to Him, Meditate ye on all His wonders.
  • Ps 119:13 : 13 With my lips I have recounted All the judgments of Thy mouth.
  • Mal 3:16-18 : 16 Then have those fearing Jehovah spoken one to another, And Jehovah doth attend and hear, And written is a book of memorial before Him Of those fearing Jehovah, And of those esteeming His name. 17 And they have been to Me, said Jehovah of Hosts, In the day that I am appointing -- a peculiar treasure, And I have had pity on them, As one hath pity on his son who is serving him. 18 And ye have turned back and considered, Between the righteous and the wicked, Between the servant of God and him who is not His servant.
  • Matt 12:34-35 : 34 `Brood of vipers! how are ye able to speak good things -- being evil? for out of the abundance of the heart doth the mouth speak. 35 The good man out of the good treasure of the heart doth put forth the good things, and the evil man out of the evil treasure doth put forth evil things.
  • Luke 4:22 : 22 and all were bearing testimony to him, and were wondering at the gracious words that are coming forth out of his mouth, and they said, `Is not this the son of Joseph?'
  • Luke 20:20-40 : 20 And, having watched `him', they sent forth liers in wait, feigning themselves to be righteous, that they might take hold of his word, to deliver him up to the rule and to the authority of the governor, 21 and they questioned him, saying, `Teacher, we have known that thou dost say and teach rightly, and dost not accept a person, but in truth the way of God dost teach; 22 Is it lawful to us to give tribute to Caesar or not?' 23 And he, having perceived their craftiness, said unto them, `Why me do ye tempt? 24 shew me a denary; of whom hath it an image and superscription?' and they answering said, `Of Caesar:' 25 and he said to them, `Give back, therefore, the things of Caesar to Caesar, and the things of God to God;' 26 and they were not able to take hold on his saying before the people, and having wondered at his answer, they were silent. 27 And certain of the Sadducees, who are denying that there is a rising again, having come near, questioned him, 28 saying, `Teacher, Moses wrote to us, If any one's brother may die, having a wife, and he may die childless -- that his brother may take the wife, and may raise up seed to his brother. 29 `There were, then, seven brothers, and the first having taken a wife, died childless, 30 and the second took the wife, and he died childless, 31 and the third took her, and in like manner also the seven -- they left not children, and they died; 32 and last of all died also the woman: 33 in the rising again, then, of which of them doth she become wife? -- for the seven had her as wife.' 34 And Jesus answering said to them, `The sons of this age do marry and are given in marriage, 35 but those accounted worthy to obtain that age, and the rising again that is out of the dead, neither marry, nor are they given in marriage; 36 for neither are they able to die any more -- for they are like messengers -- and they are sons of God, being sons of the rising again. 37 `And that the dead are raised, even Moses shewed at the Bush, since he doth call the Lord, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob; 38 and He is not a God of dead men, but of living, for all live to Him.' 39 And certain of the scribes answering said, `Teacher, thou didst say well;' 40 and no more durst they question him anything.

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