Proverbs 16:24
Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
Context
This verse from Proverbs Chapter 16 connects to 10 cross-references. Proverbs emphasizing God's sovereignty: the heart plans its way but the Lord establishes the steps. All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes but the Lord weighs the spirit. A king's heart is a stream of …
Other Translations
Pleasant words areas a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
Sayings of pleasantness <FI>are<Fi> a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul, and healing to the bone.
Pleasing words are like honey, sweet to the soul and new life to the bones.
Cross References
Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of …
Thy lips, O my spouse, drop as the honeycomb: honey and milk are under thy tongue; and the smell of …
How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!
More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.
Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so doth the sweetness of a man’s friend by hearty counsel.
As an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover upon an obedient ear.
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
So shall the knowledge of wisdom be unto thy soul: when thou hast found it, then there shall be a …
My son, eat thou honey, because it is good; and the honeycomb, which is sweet to thy taste:
Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things.