Colossians 4:6

1534 Let youre speache be all wayes well favoured and be powdred with salt that ye maye know how to answer every ma. (Tyndale Bible by William Tyndale)

1535 Let youre speach be allwaye fauorable, seasoned with salt, that ye maye knowe how to answere euery man. (Coverdale Bible)

1539 (Great Bible First Edition - Miles Coverdale)

1540 Let youre speache be alwayes well sauored & powdred with salt, that ye maye knowe, howe ye ought to answer euery man. (Great Bible Second Edition - Miles Coverdale)

1549 Let youre speache be alwayes well sauoured and poudred with salte, that ye maye knowe, howe to answere euery man. (Matthew's Bible - John Rogers)

1557 (Geneva 1557)

1560 (Geneva Bible) First Edition

1568 Let your speache be alway in grace, powdered with salt, to knowe howe ye ought to aunswere euery man. (Bishop's Bible First Edition

1582 (Rheims 1582)

1587 Let your speach be gracious alwayes, and powdred with salt, that ye may know how to answere euery man. (Geneva Bible) by William Whittingham

1599 (Geneva Bible) by William Whittingham

1611 Let your speech bee alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how yee ought to answere euery man. (King James Version)

1729 let an air of modesty appear in all your discourse; and let it be seasoned with discretion, in making a proper reply, when you are call'd into question. (Mace New Testament)

1745 Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man. (Mr. Whiston's Primitive New Testament)

1762 (King James Version)

1769 Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man. (King James Version - Benjamin Blayney)

1770 Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with discretion to know how ye ought to answer every one. (Worsley Version by John Worsley)

1790 Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every one. (Wesley Version by John Wesley)

1795 Let your discourse be always gracious, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to reply to every man. (A Translation of the New Testament from the Original Greek by Thomas Haweis)

1833 Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man. (Webster Version - by Noah Webster)

1835 Let your speech be always with gracefulness, seasoned with salt, knowing how you ought to answer every one. (Living Oracles by Alexander Campbell)

1849 And let your speech at all time be with grace as sprinkled with salt, each one knowing how it becometh him to return the answer. (Etheridge Translation by John Etheridge)

1850 (King James Version by Committee)

1851 And let your speech at all times be with grace; as it were, seasoned with salt: and know ye, how ye ought to give answer to every man. (Murdock Translation)

1855 Calvin Bible by the Calvin Translation Society

1858 Let your words always be with kindness, seasoned with salt, that you may know how to answer every one. (The New Testament Translated from the Original Greek by Leicester Sawyer)

1865 The word of you always with favor, with salt having been seasoned, to have known how it behooves you one each to answer. (The Emphatic Diaglott by Benjamin Wilson)

1865 Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man. (The New Testament of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ 1865 by American Bible Union)

1869 Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every one. (Noyes Translation by George Noyes)

1873 Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how ye ought to answer every man. (King James Version) by Frederick Scrivener)

1885 Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer each one. (Revised Version also called English Revised Version - Charles Ellicott editor)

1890 [Let] your word [be] always with grace, seasoned with salt, [so as] to know how ye ought to answer each one. (Darby Version 1890 by John Darby)

1898 your word always in grace -- with salt being seasoned -- to know how it behoveth you to answer each one. (Young's Literal Translation by Robert Young)

1901 Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer each one. (American Standard Version - Philip Schaff)

1902 Your discourse being always with benefit, with salt, seasoned,––that ye may know how it behoveth you, unto each one, to be making answer. (The Emphasised Bible Rotherham Version)

1902 Let your word be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how it behooves you to answer each one. (Translation of the New Testament from the Original Greek by William Godbey)

1904 Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer each one. (The New Testament: Revised and Translated by Adolphus Worrell)

1904 Let your conversation always be kindly, and seasoned, as it were, with salt; that you may know in each case what answer you ought to give. (Twentieth Century New Testament by Ernest Malan and Mary Higgs)

1911 (Syrus Scofield)

1912 Let your language be always seasoned with the salt of grace, so that you may know how to give every man a fitting answer. (Weymouth New Testament)

1918 Let your speech be always in grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know of how you ought to answer every one. (The New Testament Translated from the Sinaitic Manuscript by Henry Anderson)

1923 (Edgar Goodspeed)

1982 (New King James Version)

1984 Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone. (New International Version)

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. (New American Standard Bible) (©1995)

1999 Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer every man. (American King James Version)AKJV

2005 (Today’s New International Version)

(BBE)
Your speech should always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you should answer each person. (Holman Christian Standard Bible)
Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man. (21st Century King James Version)
Your speech should always be gracious and sprinkled with insight so that you may know how to respond to every person. (Common English Bible)
Everything you say should be kind and well thought out so that you know how to answer everyone. (GOD’S WORD Translation)
Be pleasant and hold their interest when you speak the message. Choose your words carefully and be ready to give answers to anyone who asks questions. (Contemporary English Version)
Be pleasant and hold their interest when you speak the message. Choose your words carefully and be ready to give answers to anyone who asks questions. (New Living Translation)
Let your speech at all times be gracious (pleasant and winsome), seasoned [as it were] with salt, [so that you may never be at a loss] to know how you ought to answer anyone [who puts a question to you]. (Amplified Bible)
4-6 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. (The Message)
Let the words you speak always be full of grace. Season them with salt. Then you will know how to answer everyone. (New International Reader's Version)
Youre word be sauered in salt eueremore in grace; that ye wite, hou it bihoueth you to answere to ech man. (Wycliffe New Testament)

Foreign Language Versions

Arabic

ليكن كلامكم كل حين بنعمة مصلحا بملح لتعلموا كيف يجب ان تجاوبوا كل واحد (Arabic Smith & Van Dyke)

Aramaic

ܘܡܠܬܟܘܢ ܒܟܠܙܒܢ ܒܛܝܒܘܬܐ ܐܝܟ ܕܒܡܠܚܐ ܬܗܘܐ ܡܡܕܟܐ ܘܗܘܝܬܘܢ ܝܕܥܝܢ ܠܐܢܫ ܐܢܫ ܐܝܟܢܐ ܘܠܐ ܠܟܘܢ ܠܡܬܒܘ ܦܬܓܡܐ (Aramaic Peshitta)

Basque

Çuen hitza bethiere biz gatzez confitua gratiarequin, batbederari nola ihardetsi behar draucaçuen daquiçuençát.

Bulgarian

1940 Това, което говорите, да бъде винаги с благодат, подправено със сол, за да знаете как трябва да отговаряте на всекиго. (Bulgarian Bible)

Chinese

1 你们的言语要常常带着和气，好像用盐调和，就可知道该怎样回答各人。 (Chinese Union Version (Simplified))

1 你們的言語要常常帶著和氣，好像用鹽調和，就可知道該怎樣回答各人。 (Chinese Union Version (Traditional))

French

Que votre parole soit toujours dans un esprit de grâce, assaisonnée de sel, afin que vous sachiez comment vous devez répondre à chacun. (French Darby)

1744 Que votre parole soit toujours assaisonnée de sel avec grâce, afin que vous sachiez comment vous avez à répondre à chacun. (Martin 1744)

1744 Que votre parole soit toujours accompagnée de grâce, et assaisonnée de sel, de manière que vous sachiez répondre à chacun comme il faut. (Ostervald 1744)

German

1545 Eure Rede sei allezeit lieblich und mit Salz gewürzet, daß ihr wisset, wie ihr einem jeglichen antworten sollt. (Luther 1545)

1871 Euer Wort sei allezeit in Gnade, mit Salz gewürzt, um zu wissen, wie ihr jedem einzelnen antworten sollt. (Elberfelder 1871)

1912 Eure Rede sei allezeit lieblich und mit Salz gewürzt, daß ihr wißt, wie ihr einem jeglichen antworten sollt. (Luther 1912)

Italian

1649 (G4-5) Il vostro parlare sia sempre con grazia, condito con sale; per sapere come vi si convien rispondere a ciascuno.(Giovanni Diodati Bible 1649)

1927 Il vostro parlare sia sempre con grazia, condito con sale, per sapere come dovete rispondere a ciascuno. (Riveduta Bible 1927)

Japanese

1928 (Naoji Nagai)

Latin

sermo vester semper in gratia sale sit conditus ut sciatis quomodo oporteat vos unicuique respondere Latin Vulgate

1527 (Erasmus 1527)

1527 (Erasmus Vulgate 1527)

Pidgin

1996 (Pidgin King Jems)

Romainian

2010 Vorbirea voastră să fie totdeauna cu har, dreasă cu sare, ca să ştiţi cum trebuie să răspundeţi fiecăruia. (Biblia Traducerea Fidela în limba româna)

Russian

1876 Слово ваше да будет всегда с благодатию, приправлено солью, дабывы знали, как отвечать каждому. Russian Synodal Version

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Spanish

Sea vuestra palabra siempre con gracia, sazonada con sal; para que sepáis cómo os conviene responder á cada uno. (RVG Spanish)

Swedish

1917 Edert tal vare alltid välbehagligt, kryddat med salt; I bören förstå, huru I skolen svara var och en. (Swedish - Svenska 1917)

Tagalog

1905 Ang inyong pananalita nawa'y laging may biyaya, na magkalasang asin, upang inyong maalaman kung ano ang nararapat ninyong isagot sa bawa't isa. (Ang Dating Biblia 1905)

Tok Pisin

1996 (Tok Pisin King Jems)

Vietnamese

1934 Lời nói anh em phải có ân hậu theo luôn, và nêm thêm muối, hầu cho anh em biết nên đối đáp mỗi người là thể nào. (VIET)

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