Colossians 4:6 – Three Minute Bible

April 14, 2025April 14, 2025

Colossians 4:6c – Knowing How

Picture of a man standing in a steel framed box with no walls. (Necker Cube)

[Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt,] …so that you may know how to answer everyone.

Summary: Knowing how to answer everyone is both a gift and a skill. Paul’s final word of advice in his letter is that we should “know how to answer everyone.”

Perhaps you have seen one of those drawings that can be seen in different ways. For example, this first one is called a “Rubin Figure,” named after a Danish psychologist, Edgar Rubin.

April 12, 2025April 13, 2025

Colossians 4:6b – Salty Talk

Picture of salt being shaken out of a salt shaker.

[Let your conversation be]…seasoned with salt …

Summary: “Seasoned with salt” is a phrase that sounds interesting but lacks a connection with our modern world. Taking a look at the history of salt in biblical times might help us understand better what Paul meant.

Let’s begin this meditation with a question asked by Job many thousands of years ago:

“Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg?” (Job 6:6, KJV) He goes on to say, “I refuse to touch it; such food makes me ill.”

April 11, 2025April 11, 2025

Colossians 4:6a – Lessons in Grace

Let your conversation be always full of grace …

Summary: Paul admonishes us to fill our conversations with outsiders with grace. While that sounds simple, understanding what grace means requires some reflection on our Lord Jesus.

This verse is important because it is the last verse of instruction in Paul’s letter to the Colossians. Everything after this involves personal business. So, let’s savor what this last sentence has to offer.

The larger context of this passage is how we act towards “others.” My understanding of “others” in this context is people “other than” the believers who are already part of the church body. When Paul says, “Let your conversation be always full of grace …” he is talking about conversations with those who might need more grace.