Our Speech - With Salt and Ministering Grace

Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.--Colossians 4:6

Let your speech - let what you say

be always - at all times

with grace - that which affords joy, pleasure, delight, sweetness, charm, loveliness, 

   a.  good will, loving-kindness, favor - of the merciful kindness by which God, exerting His holy influence upon souls, turns them to Christ, keeps, strengthens, increases them in Christian faith, knowledge, affection, and kindles them to the exercise of Christian virtues.  

seasoned - prepared, arranged, make savory.

with salt -  1.  that which food is seasoned and sacrifices are sprinkled  2. salt is a symbol of lasting concord, because it protects food from putrefaction and preserves it unchanged.  Accordingly, in the solemn ratification of compacts the orientals were, and are to this day, accustomed to partake of salt together. 
4.  wisdom and grace exhibited in speech.  5. flavors  6. has healing qualities.

that ye may know - see, perceive, discern

how - in what way

ye ought to answer every man 


Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth, but what is good for necessary edification, that it may impart grace to the hearers. --Ephesians 4:29

Let no corrupt - bad, putrefied, no longer fit, worthless

communication - word, speech

proceed - go forth, depart

out of - preposition denoting origin (the point whence an action or motion proceeds.)  Please note:  speech comes from the mouth but it is out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. Your speech says much about you and what you are meditating on.

your mouth 

but - an exception, a restriction

that which

is good - of good constitution or nature, pleasant, agreeable, joyful, happy, excellent, distinguished, upright, honourable

to the use - need, duty or business

of edifying - building up, promoting another's growth in Christian wisdom, piety, happiness, holiness.

that it may minister - to give something to someone, to bestow a gift, to supply, furnish, necessary things, to reach out, extend, to give forth from one's self

grace - that which affords joy, pleasure, delight, sweetness, charm, loveliness, good will, loving-kindness, favor.

a.  of the merciful kindness by which God, exerting His holy influence upon souls, turns them to Christ, keeps, strengthens, increases them in Christian faith, knowledge, affection, and kindles them to the exercise of the Christian virtues.

unto the hearers - to those who are listening