Meet God in Scripture

Meet God in Colossians 4:6

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

Colossians 4:6 (KJV)

Six ways to encounter God here

A passage is not only to be understood; it is to be lived with. Choose how you want to meet God in Colossians 4:6, and Living Bread opens it right there.

Read itSit with the words themselves in The Word.Study itContext, cross-references, and questions in Bible Study.Be still in itLet it quiet you in the Sanctuary.Pray itTurn it into a prayer of your own.Hide it in your heartMemorize it, word by word.Encounter it togetherGather a few people to walk through it.

The passage in its setting

Meeting God in a verse begins with hearing it where it lives, in the flow of Colossians 4. Read it slowly, and let the focal verse settle into its own context.

4 That I may make it manifest, as I ought to speak.

5 Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time.

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

7 All my state shall Tychicus declare unto you, who is a beloved brother, and a faithful minister and fellowservant in the Lord:

8 Whom I have sent unto you for the same purpose, that he might know your estate, and comfort your hearts;

The web of Scripture around it

Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 14 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.

  • Ephesians 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 Peter 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:
  • Ecclesiastes 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.
  • Proverbs 15:4A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.
  • Proverbs 15:7The lips of the wise disperse knowledge: but the heart of the foolish doeth not so.
  • Colossians 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.
  • Proverbs 22:17Bow down thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thine heart unto my knowledge.
  • Proverbs 16:21The wise in heart shall be called prudent: and the sweetness of the lips increaseth learning.
  • Matthew 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.
  • Proverbs 26:4Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.
  • Matthew 12:34O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
  • Proverbs 25:11A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
  • Psalms 119:46I will speak of thy testimonies also before kings, and will not be ashamed.

More to meet God in Colossians

Colossians 3:23Colossians 3:2Colossians 1:16Colossians 3:13Colossians 3:15Colossians 1:23Colossians 3:16Colossians 1:28Colossians 3:11Colossians 3:12Colossians 2:2Colossians 1:12Colossians 1:10Colossians 2:18

How it points to Christ

Every Scripture ultimately leads to Jesus. See how the whole Bible points to Him in Christ in all Scripture, then meet Him for yourself.