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Colossians 4:6 KJV
Colossians · chapter 4 · verse 6
Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.Colossians 4:6 · King James Version
What Colossians 4:6 means
Salt is for flavour and for keeping — it makes speech worth hearing and keeps it from going bad. Alway leaves no exceptions. And the purpose is practical: that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man, which means thinking before the question comes.
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Colossians 4:6 in context
4That I may make it manifest, as I ought to speak.
5Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time.
6Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
7All my state shall Tychicus declare unto you, who is a beloved brother, and a faithful minister and fellowservant in the Lord:
8Whom I have sent unto you for the same purpose, that he might know your estate, and comfort your hearts;
Commentary
Cross references
- Ephesians 4:29
- 1 Peter 3:15
- Ecclesiastes 10:12
- Mark 9:50
- Proverbs 15:4
- Proverbs 15:7
- Colossians 3:16
- Proverbs 22:17-18
Key words (Strong's)
- seasonedartyōto prepare, arrange, with respect to food, to season, make savoryG741 →
- speechlogosof speech, a word, uttered by a living voice, embodies a conception or idea, what someone…G3056 →
- answerapokrinomaito give an answer to a question proposed, to answer, to begin to speak, but always where…G611 →
- alwaypantoteat all times, always, everG3842 →
- gracecharisgrace, that which affords joy, pleasure, delight, sweetness, charm, loveliness grace of…G5485 →
- oughtdeiit is necessary, there is need of, it behooves, is right and proper, necessity lying in…G1163 →
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The apostle exhorts them further to a prudent and decent conduct towards all those with whom they conversed, towards the heathen world, or those out of the Christian church among whom they lived (Col 4:5): Walk in wisdom towards those who are without.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 5-6