Colossians 4:6
Colossians 4:5-6 The Message (MSG)
Use your heads as you live and work among outsiders. Don’t miss a trick. Make the most of every opportunity. Be gracious in your speech. The goal is to bring out the best in others in a conversation, not put them down, not cut them out.
Colossians 4:6 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.
Colossians 4:6 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)
Let your speech always be with grace, as though seasoned with salt, so that you will know how you should respond to each person.
Colossians 4:6 New Century Version (NCV)
When you talk, you should always be kind and pleasant so you will be able to answer everyone in the way you should.
Colossians 4:6 American Standard Version (ASV)
Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer each one.
Colossians 4:6 New International Version (NIV)
Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.
Colossians 4:6 New King James Version (NKJV)
Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.
Colossians 4:6 Amplified Bible (AMP)
Let your speech at all times be gracious and pleasant, seasoned with salt, so that you will know how to answer each one [who questions you].
Colossians 4:6 New Living Translation (NLT)
Let your conversation be gracious and attractive so that you will have the right response for everyone.
Colossians 4:6 The Passion Translation (TPT)
Let every word you speak be drenched with grace and tempered with truth and clarity. For then you will be prepared to give a respectful answer to anyone who asks about your faith.
