Proverbs 24:13 - Revised Standard Version CI

¹³ My son, eat honey, for it is good, and the drippings of the honeycomb are sweet to your taste.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹³ My son, eat thou honey, because it is good; And the honeycomb, which is sweet to thy taste:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹³ My son, eat honey, because it is good, and the drippings of the honeycomb are sweet to your taste.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹³ My son, eat thou honey, for it is good; And the droppings of the honeycomb, which are sweet to thy taste:

Common English Bible

¹³ My child, eat honey, for it is good. The honeycomb is sweet in your mouth.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹³ My son, eat honey, because it is good, and the honeycomb, because it is so sweet to your throat.

Proverbs 24:13 Cross References

Psalm 119:103

How sweet are thy words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth!

Psalm 19:10

More to be desired are they than gold, even much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and drippings of the honeycomb.

Proverbs 16:24

Pleasant words are like a honeycomb, sweetness to the soul and health to the body.

Proverbs 25:16

If you have found honey, eat only enough for you, lest you be sated with it and vomit it.

Proverbs 25:27

It is not good to eat much honey, so be sparing of complimentary words.

Proverbs 27:7

He who is sated loathes honey, but to one who is hungry everything bitter is sweet.

Song of Solomon 4:11

Your lips distil nectar, my bride; honey and milk are under your tongue; the scent of your garments is like the scent of Lebanon.

Song of Solomon 5:1

I come to my garden, my sister, my bride, I gather my myrrh with my spice, I eat my honeycomb with my honey, I drink my wine with my milk. Eat, O friends, and drink: drink deeply, O lovers!

Isaiah 7:15

He shall eat curds and honey when he knows how to refuse the evil and choose the good.

Matthew 3:4

Now John wore a garment of camel's hair, and a leather girdle around his waist; and his food was locusts and wild honey.

Judges 14:9

He scraped it out into his hands, and went on, eating as he went; and he came to his father and mother, and gave some to them, and they ate. But he did not tell them that he had taken the honey from the carcass of the lion.

1 Samuel 14:27

But Jonathan had not heard his father charge the people with the oath; so he put forth the tip of the staff that was in his hand, and dipped it in the honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth; and his eyes became bright.