Colossians 4:6
kLet your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
ὁ λόγος ὑμῶν πάντοτε ἐν χάριτι, ἅλατι ἠρτυμένος, εἰδέναι πῶς δεῖ ὑμᾶς ἑνὶ ἑκάστῳ ἀποκρίνεσθαι.
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Ephesians 4:29 Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
Ecclesiastes 10:12 The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.
Psalms 45:1 My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.
Proverbs 10:32 The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable: but the mouth of the wicked speaketh frowardness.
Mark 9:50 Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his saltness, wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another.
1 Peter 3:15 But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:
because discourse is the tenderest part of our converse with men, especially those without, and ought to be managed with the greatest circumspection, upon occasions in every fit season, in imitation of Christ, who entertained those that did converse with him with gracious words, Luk 4:22, you should endeavour so to speak when called, that the hearers may conceive your discourse doth proceed from a gracious spirit, or grace in the heart, Col 3:16, teaching your mouth, Pro 15:23,24, with meekness of wisdom, Jas 3:13, using knowledge aright, Pro 15:2, being in its tendency gracious, Ecc 10:12; not ungrateful, (as tinctured with gall or venom), but ministering grace to the hearers, Eph 4:29.
even as meat duly powdered with salt {Mat 5:13} becomes acceptable to the discerning palate, so to the ear that trieth speech, fitly spoken words {Pro 25:11} are of a grateful savour, cleansed from corruption, Job 33:3 Mar 9:50.
to this purpose chiefly in the main points of Christianity, that in a gospel becoming manner, you may be able to give a reason of the hope that is in you (to those that ask you) with meekness and fear, Mat 7:6 1Pe 3:15, courteousness and sincerity, Eph 4:25, free from those evils of speech he had before enjoined them in this Epistle to put away, Col 3:8.