Proverbs 24:13

Bible in Basic English 1965

My son, take honey, for it is good; and the flowing honey, which is sweet to your taste:

Cross References

Psalm 119:103

How sweet are your sayings to my taste! truly, they are sweeter than honey in my mouth!

Psalm 19:10

More to be desired are they than gold, even than much shining gold; sweeter than the dropping honey.

Proverbs 16:24

Pleasing words are like honey, sweet to the soul and new life to the bones.

Proverbs 25:16

If you have honey, take only as much as is enough for you; for fear that, being full of it, you may not be able to keep it down.

Proverbs 25:27

It is not good to take much honey: so he who is not looking for honour will be honoured.

Proverbs 27:7

The full man has no use for honey, but to the man in need of food every bitter thing is sweet.

Song of Solomon 4:11

Your lips are dropping honey; honey and milk are under your tongue; and the smell of your clothing is like the smell of Lebanon.

Song of Solomon 5:1

I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride; to take my myrrh with my spice; my wax with my honey; my wine with my milk. Take meat, O friends; take wine, yes, be overcome with love.

Isaiah 7:15

Butter and honey will be his food, when he is old enough to make a decision between evil and good.

Matthew 3:4

Now John was clothed in camel's hair, with a leather band about him; and his food was locusts and honey.

Judges 14:9

And he took the honey in his hand, and went on, tasting it on the way; and when he came to his father and mother he gave some to them; but did not say that he had taken the honey from the body of the lion.

1 Samuel 14:27

But Jonathan, having no knowledge of the oath his father had put on the people, stretching out the rod which was in his hand, put the end of it in the honey, and put it to his mouth; then his eyes were made bright.