ESV
KJV
6. Let your speech [be] alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
ASV
6. Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer each one.
ERVEN
6. When you talk, you should always be kind and wise. Then you will be able to answer everyone in the way you should.
NLT
6. Let your conversation be gracious and attractive so that you will have the right response for everyone.
WEB
6. Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.
NET
6. Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you should answer everyone.
NLV
6. Speak with them in such a way they will want to listen to you. Do
HCSB
6. Your speech should always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you should answer each person.
YLT
6. your word always in grace -- with salt being seasoned -- to know how it behoveth you to answer each one.
LITV
6. Let your word be always with grace, having been seasoned with salt, to know how you ought to answer each one.
RV
6. Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer each one.
NCV
6. When you talk, you should always be kind and pleasant so you will be able to answer everyone in the way you should.
MKJV
6. Let your speech be always with grace, having been seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.
AKJV
6. Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer every man.
LXXEN
KJV
6. Let your speech [be] alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
AMP
6. Let your speech at all times be gracious (pleasant and winsome), seasoned [as it were] with salt, [so that you may never be at a loss] to know how you ought to answer anyone [who puts a question to you].
KJVP
6. Let your G3588 T-NSM speech G3056 N-NSM [ be ] always G3842 ADV with G1722 PREP grace G5485 N-DSF , seasoned G741 V-RPP-NSM with salt G217 N-DSN , that ye may know G1492 V-RAN how G4459 ADV ye G5209 P-2AP ought G1163 V-PQI-3S to answer G611 V-PNN every man G1520 A-DSM .
YLT
6. your word always in grace -- with salt being seasoned -- to know how it behoveth you to answer each one.
ASV
6. Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer each one.
WEB
6. Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.
NASB
6. Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you know how you should respond to each one.
ESV
6. Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.
RV
6. Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer each one.
RSV
6. Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer every one.
NKJV
6. [Let] your speech always [be] with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.
MKJV
6. Let your speech be always with grace, having been seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.
AKJV
6. Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer every man.
NRSV
6. Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer everyone.
NIV
6. Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.
NIRV
6. Let the words you speak always be full of grace. Season them with salt. Then you will know how to answer everyone.
NLT
6. Let your conversation be gracious and attractive so that you will have the right response for everyone.
MSG
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.
GNB
6. Your speech should always be pleasant and interesting, and you should know how to give the right answer to everyone.
NET
6. Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you should answer everyone.
ERVEN
6. When you talk, you should always be kind and wise. Then you will be able to answer everyone in the way you should.