Colossians 4:6 - Compare All Versions

Colossians 4:5-6 MSG (The Message)

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 KJV (King James Version)

Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.

Colossians 4:6 NASB1995 (New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995)

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 NCV (New Century Version)

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 ASV (American Standard Version)

Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer each one.

Colossians 4:6 NIV (New International Version)

Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.

Colossians 4:6 NKJV (New King James Version)

Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.

Colossians 4:6 AMP (Amplified Bible)

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 NLT (New Living Translation)

Let your conversation be gracious and attractive so that you will have the right response for everyone.

Colossians 4:6 TPT (The Passion Translation)

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.

Colossians 4:6 ESV (English Standard Version 2025)

Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.