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Holman Christian Standard Bible
6 Your speech should always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you should answer each person.
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English Standard Version
6 Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.
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King James Version
6 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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The Message Bible
6 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.
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New American Standard Bible
6 Let your speech always be with grace, as though seasoned with salt, so that you will know how you should respond to each person.
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New International Version
6 Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.
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New King James Version
6 Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.
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New Living Translation
6 Let your conversation be gracious and attractive so that you will have the right response for everyone.
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New Revised Standard
6 Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer everyone.
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American Standard Version
6 Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer each one.
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The Bible in Basic English
6 Let your talk be with grace, mixed with salt, so that you may be able to give an answer to everyone.
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Common English Bible
6 Your speech should always be gracious and sprinkled with insight so that you may know how to respond to every person.
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Common English Bible w/ Apocrypha
6 Your speech should always be gracious and sprinkled with insight so that you may know how to respond to every person.
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The Complete Jewish Bible
6 let your conversation always be gracious and interesting, so that you will know how to respond to any particular individual.
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The Darby Translation
6 [Let] your word [be] always with grace, seasoned with salt, [so as] to know how ye ought to answer each one.
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Good News Translation
6 Your speech should always be pleasant and interesting, and you should know how to give the right answer to everyone.
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Good News Translation w/ Apocrypha
6 Your speech should always be pleasant and interesting, and you should know how to give the right answer to everyone.
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GOD'S WORD Translation
6 Everything you say should be kind and well thought out so that you know how to answer everyone.
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Hebrew Names Version
6 Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.
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Jubilee Bible 2000
6 Let your word be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer each one.
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King James Version w/ Apocrypha
6 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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Lexham English Bible
6 Let your speech always [be] with grace, seasoned with salt, so that [you] may know how it is necessary for you to answer each one.
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New Century Version
6 When you talk, you should always be kind and pleasant so you will be able to answer everyone in the way you should.
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New International Reader's Version
6 Let the words you speak always be full of grace. Season them with salt. Then you will know how to answer everyone.
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New Revised Standard w/ Apocrypha
6 Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer everyone.
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Douay-Rheims Catholic Bible
6 Let your speech be always in grace seasoned with salt: that you may know how you ought to answer every man.
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Revised Standard Version
6 Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer every one.
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Revised Standard Version w/ Apocrypha
6 Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer every one.
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SBL Greek New Testament
6 ὁ λόγος ὑμῶν πάντοτε ἐν χάριτι, ἅλατι ἠρτυμένος, εἰδέναι πῶς δεῖ ὑμᾶς ἑνὶ ἑκάστῳ ἀποκρίνεσθαι.
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Third Millennium Bible
6 Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
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Third Millennium Bible w/ Apocrypha
6 Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
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Tyndale
6 Let youre speache be all wayes well favoured and be powdred with salt that ye maye know how to answer every ma.
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The Latin Vulgate
6 sermo vester semper in gratia sale sit conditus ut sciatis quomodo oporteat vos unicuique respondere
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6 sermo vester semper in gratia sale sit conditus ut sciatis quomodo oporteat vos unicuique respondere
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The Webster Bible
6 Let your speech [be] always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
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World English Bible
6 Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.
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Weymouth New Testament
6 Let your language be always seasoned with the salt of grace, so that you may know how to give every man a fitting answer.
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Wycliffe
6 Your word be savoured with salt evermore in grace; that ye know, how it behooveth you to answer to each man.
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Young's Literal Translation
6 your word always in grace -- with salt being seasoned -- to know how it behoveth you to answer each one.
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