6Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer every man.


In Context

3 With praying also for us, that God would open to us a door of utterance, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds:

4 That I may make it manifest, as I ought to speak.

5 Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time.

6 Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer every man.

7 All my state shall Tychicus declare to you, who is a beloved brother, and a faithful minister and fellow servant in the Lord:

8 Whom I have sent to you for the same purpose, that he might know your estate, and comfort your hearts;

Colossians 4:6 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:6Let your speech [be] alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

4:6Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

4:6Let your speech be always in grace seasoned with salt: that you may know how you ought to answer every man.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

4:6Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer each one.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:6Let your word be always with grace, seasoned with salt, so as to know how ye ought to answer each one.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

4:6Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer each one.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:6Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:6Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

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