Colossians
King James Version (KJV)


“Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.”
King James Version (KJV)
4:6 Let your speech be always with grace - Seasoned with the grace of God, as flesh is with salt.
Col 4:6 Let your speech [be] always with grace. Use courteous speech, calculated to attract rather than to repel. Seasoned with salt. Food without seasoning is insipid. Let the speech be so seasoned by "grace" that it will not be rejected with aversion. That ye may know how ye ought to answer every man. So that your answer to every man may be such as the case requires. The idea is to always say what is pertinent and best for the occasion.
Let your speech bee alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how yee ought to answere euery man.
- King James Version (1611) - View 1611 Bible Scan
Let your speech always be with grace, {as though} seasoned with salt, so that you will know how you should respond to each person.
- New American Standard Version (1995)
Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer each one.
- American Standard Version (1901)
Let your talk be with grace, mixed with salt, so that you may be able to give an answer to everyone.
- Basic English Bible
Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.
- Berean Standard Bible Bible
[Let] your word [be] always with grace, seasoned with salt, [so as] to know how ye ought to answer each one.
- Darby Bible
Let your speech be always in grace seasoned with salt: that you may know how you ought to answer every man.
- Douay-Rheims Bible
Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer each one.
- English Revised Version
Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.
- World English Bible