Colossians 4:6

Christian speech should always be gracious and tasteful, so we can answer everyone wisely. It matters because the way we speak should reflect the grace of the gospel and aid our witness.

Cross-references · 32

• Eph 4:29Let 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.
• 1 Pet 3:15But 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:
• Eccl 10:12The words of a wise man’s mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.
• Mark 9:50Salt 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.
• Prov 15:4A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.
• Prov 15:7The lips of the wise disperse knowledge: but the heart of the foolish doeth not so.
• Col 3:16Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
• Prov 22:17–18Bow down thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thine heart unto my knowledge.
• Prov 16:21–24The wise in heart shall be called prudent: and the sweetness of the lips increaseth learning.
• Matt 5:13Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.
• Prov 26:4–5Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.
• Matt 12:34–35O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
• Prov 25:11–12A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
• Ps 119:46I will speak of thy testimonies also before kings, and will not be ashamed.
• Ps 105:2Sing unto him, sing psalms unto him: talk ye of all his wondrous works.
• Prov 10:21The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of wisdom.
• Ps 78:3–4Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.
• Ps 40:9–10I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest.
• Ps 71:23–24My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing unto thee; and my soul, which thou hast redeemed.
• Ps 45:2Thou art fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee for ever.
• Ps 37:30–31The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue talketh of judgment.
• 2 Kgs 2:20–22And he said, Bring me a new cruse, and put salt therein. And they brought it to him.
• Lev 2:13And every oblation of thy meat offering shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meat offering: with all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt.
• Ps 71:15–18My mouth shall shew forth thy righteousness and thy salvation all the day; for I know not the numbers thereof.
• Ps 66:16Come and hear, all ye that fear God, and I will declare what he hath done for my soul.
• Luke 20:20–40And they watched him, and sent forth spies, which should feign themselves just men, that they might take hold of his words, that so they might deliver him unto the power and authority of the governor.
• Deut 11:19And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
• Luke 4:22And all bare him witness, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth. And they said, Is not this Joseph’s son?
• Ps 119:13With my lips have I declared all the judgments of thy mouth.
• Deut 6:6–7And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:
• Mal 3:16–18Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name.
• 1 Chr 16:24Declare his glory among the heathen; his marvellous works among all nations.

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