The King James Version Bible

Proverbs 16:24

Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

Cross References

  1. More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.
  2. For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.
  3. The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the LORD: but the words of the pure are pleasant words.
  4. My son, eat thou honey, because it is good; and the honeycomb, which is sweet to thy taste: So shall the knowledge of wisdom be unto thy soul: when thou hast found it, then there shall be a reward, and thy expectation shall not be cut off.
  5. There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
  6. A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in due season, how good is it!
  7. A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver. As an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover upon an obedient ear.
  8. My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:
  9. How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!
  10. It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.
  11. Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things.
  12. Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so doth the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel.
  13. Thy lips, O my spouse, drop as the honeycomb: honey and milk are under thy tongue; and the smell of thy garments is like the smell of Lebanon.
  14. Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O LORD God of hosts.
  15. Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you. And when he had so said, he shewed unto them his hands and his side. Then were the disciples glad, when they saw the LORD. Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you.