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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Colossians 4:6 - 4:6
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with grace - Greek, “IN grace” as its element (Col 3:16; Eph 4:29). Contrast the case of those “of the world” who “therefore speak of the world” (1Jo 4:5). Even the smallest leaf of the believer should be full of the sap of the Holy Spirit (Jer 17:7, Jer 17:8). His conversation should be cheerful without levity, serious without gloom. Compare Luk 4:22; Joh 7:46, as to Jesus’ speech.
seasoned with salt - that is, the savor of fresh and lively spiritual wisdom and earnestness, excluding all “corrupt communication,” and also tasteless insipidity (Mat 5:13; Mar 9:50; Eph 4:29). Compare all the sacrifices seasoned with salt (Lev 2:13). Not far from Colosse, in Phrygia, there was a salt lake, which gives to the image here the more appropriateness.
how ye ought to answer every man - (1Pe 3:15).