Proverbs 16:24

A Conservative Version

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

Cross References

Proverbs 12:18

There is he who speaks rashly like the piercings of a sword, but the tongue of the wise is health.

Proverbs 4:22

For they are life to those who find them, and health to all their flesh.

Proverbs 3:8

It will be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.

Proverbs 23:16

Yea, my heart will rejoice when thy lips speak right things.

Proverbs 27:9

Oil and perfume rejoice the heart, so [too] the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel.

Psalm 119:103

How sweet are thy words to my taste, 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 droppings of the honeycomb.

Jeremiah 15:16

Thy words were found, and I ate them. And thy words were to me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart. For I am called by thy name, O LORD, God of hosts.

Proverbs 15:26

Evil devices are an abomination to 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 has joy in the answer of his mouth, and a word in due season, how good it is!

Song of Solomon 4:11

Thy lips, O [my] bride, drop 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 cheerful heart is a good medicine, but a broken spirit dries up the bones.

Ecclesiastes 12:10

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

Revelation 10:10

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