“Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.”  Colossians 4:6 (ESV)

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Have you ever forgotten to put salt in something you were cooking when it was needed? It probably was a little bland, wasn’t it? The right seasoning brings out the flavor in the food and allows you to enjoy a delicious meal! Salt also preserves food, keeping it from spoiling. This verse tells us that the same concept applies to the things we say.

In context, this verse is speaking to believers about the way they converse with people who do not share a saving faith in Jesus. According to the MacArthur Study Bible, gracious speech is that which is “wholesome, fitting, kind, truthful and loving.”

Ephesians 4:29 (ESV) describes it this way: “Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.”

Wouldn’t you love to be a woman who is known for this kind of speech? I certainly would!

Women who have gracious speech will spread kindness, sharing truth in a loving way with those people whom they come into contact. Such a woman will gain wisdom because of her relationship with Jesus, the ultimate giver of grace.

By spending time in God’s Word, she will know how to respond to each person and will be an encouragement as she speaks to others.  May each one of us seek to be a woman who builds up and brings joy to those around us because of our kind and gracious words.

 

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