Proverbs 24:13 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹³ My son, eat thou honey, for it is good; And the honeycomb, which is sweet to thy 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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹³ Fat honey, my son, because it is good, and the honeycomb most sweet to thy throat:

Proverbs 24:13 Cross References

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.

Proverbs 16:24

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

Proverbs 25:16

Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee; Lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it.

Proverbs 25:27

It is not good to eat much honey: So for men to search out their own glory is not glory.

Proverbs 27:7

The full soul loatheth an honeycomb: But to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.

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.

Song of Solomon 5:1

I am come into my garden, my sister, my bride: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, O friends; Drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved.

Isaiah 7:15

Butter and honey shall he eat, when he knoweth to refuse the evil, and choose the good.

Matthew 3:4

Now John himself had his raiment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his food was locusts and wild honey.

Judges 14:9

And he took it into his hands, and went on, eating as he went, and he came to his father and mother, and gave unto them, and they did eat: but he told them not that he had taken the honey out of the body of the lion.

1 Samuel 14:27

But Jonathan heard not when his father charged the people with the oath: wherefore he put forth the end of the rod that was in his hand, and dipped it in the honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth; and his eyes were enlightened.