“Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.”
— WEB
Colossians 4:6
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“Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.”
— KJV
“Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer each one.”
— ASV
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Commentary
with grace--Greek, "IN grace" as its element (Col 3:16; Eph 4:29). Contrast the case of those "of the world" who "therefore speak of the world" (Jo1 4:5). Even the smallest leaf of the believer should be full of the sap of the Holy Spirit (Jer 17:7-8). His conversation should be cheerful without levity, serious without gloom. Compare Luk 4:22; Joh 7:46, as to Jesus' speech. seasoned with salt--that is, the savor of fresh and lively spiritual wisdom and earnestness, excluding all "corrupt communication," and also tasteless insipidity (Mat 5:13; Mar 9:50; Eph 4:29). Compare all the sacrifices seasoned with salt (Lev 2:13). Not far from Colosse, in Phrygia, there was a salt lake, which gives to the image here the more appropriateness. how ye ought to answer every man-- (Pe1 3:15).
— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (public domain)
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