Proverbs 16:24 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

²⁴ Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, Sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁴ Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, Sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁴ Pleasant words are as a honeycomb, sweet to the mind and healing to the body.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁴ Pleasant words are as a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

Common English Bible

²⁴ Pleasant words are flowing honey, sweet to the taste and healing to the bones.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁴ Careful words are a honeycomb: sweet to the soul and healthful to the bones.

Proverbs 16:24 Cross References

Proverbs 12:18

There is that speaketh rashly like the piercings of a sword: But the tongue of the wise is health.

Proverbs 4:22

For they are life unto those that find them, And health to all their flesh.

Proverbs 3:8

It shall be health to thy navel, And marrow to thy bones.

Proverbs 23:16

Yea, my reins shall rejoice, When thy lips speak right things.

Proverbs 27:9

Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: So doth the sweetness of a man's friend that cometh of hearty counsel.

Psalm 119:103

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

Psalm 19:10

More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: Sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.

Jeremiah 15:16

Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy words were unto me a joy and the rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O LORD God of hosts.

Proverbs 15:26

Evil devices are an abomination to the LORD: But pleasant words are pure.

Deuteronomy 32:2

My doctrine shall drop as the rain, My speech shall distil as the dew; As the small rain upon the tender grass, And as the showers upon the herb:

Proverbs 15:23

A man hath joy in the answer of his mouth: And a word in due season, how good is it!

Song of Solomon 4:11

Thy lips, O my bride, drop as the honeycomb: Honey and milk are under thy tongue; And the smell of thy garments is like the smell of Lebanon.

Proverbs 17:22

A merry heart is a good medicine: But a broken spirit drieth up the bones.

Ecclesiastes 12:10

The Preacher sought to find out acceptable words, and that which was written uprightly, even words of truth.

Revelation 10:10

And I took the little book out of the angel's hand, and ate it up; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and when I had eaten it, my belly was made bitter.