Colossians 4:6 Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer every man. "What awakened you?" said a Christian minister on one occasion to a young friend. "It was what you said to me one evening coming out of the lecture-room. As you took me by the hand, you said, 'Mary, one thing is needful. You said nothing else, and passed on; but I could not forget it.'" It was a word spoken in the Spirit, and the Lord accompanied it with saving power. The sculptor, Bacon, being an earnest Christian, used to seek opportunities of introducing religion into his conversation. On one of these occasions, the lady he addressed, said, "As to that, my religion is to fear God, and keep His commandments; so we will talk no more on such matters." Bacon replied, '"But, madam, you will recollect it is said, 'they that feared the Lord spake often one to another.'" (J. F. B. Tinling.) Parallel Verses KJV: Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man. |
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