{"id":2105,"date":"2013-01-04T05:00:55","date_gmt":"2013-01-04T11:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=2105"},"modified":"2023-02-22T06:52:09","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T12:52:09","slug":"colossians-45-6-those-outside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=2105","title":{"rendered":"Colossians 4:5-6 \u2014 Those Outside"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><sup>5\u00a0<\/sup>Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><sup>6\u00a0<\/sup>Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3>walk in wisdom (v.5) \u2014 conduct yourself so as not to give a bad impression<\/h3>\n<h3>outside (v.5) \u2014 unbelievers<\/h3>\n<h3>redeeming the time (v.5) = purchasing completely \u2014 taking advantage of every opportunity<\/h3>\n<h3>grace (v.6) = graciousness, courtesy, pleasantness<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">seasoned with salt (v.6) \u2014 Salt has a twofold purpose; 1) It gives flavor to the discourse and recommends it to the palate. This is the primary idea of the metaphor here, as the word &#8220;seasoned&#8221; seems to show; 2) It preserves from corruption and renders wholesome. It may be inferred that this secondary application of the metaphor was present to the apostle&#8217;s mind here, because of the parallel epistle (<a href=\"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=3762\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Ephesians 4:29<\/span><\/a>), &#8220;Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth.&#8221; \u2014 Wuest, page 235.<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3>know (v.6) = be fully aware<\/h3>\n<h3>answer each one (v.6) \u2014 according to his individual needs<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5\u00a0Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time. 6\u00a0Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one. walk in wisdom (v.5) \u2014 conduct yourself so &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=2105\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colossians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2105"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7475,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2105\/revisions\/7475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}