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


In Context

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;

4 that I may reveal it as I ought to speak.

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

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

7 All my affairs will be made known to you by Tychicus, the beloved brother, faithful servant, and fellow bondservant in the Lord.

8 I am sending him to you for this very purpose, that he may know your circumstances 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 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.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

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