Proverbs 16:24

Modern King James Version

Pleasant words are like a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

Cross References

Psalm 119:103

How sweet are Your Words to my taste! More than honey to my mouth!

Psalm 19:10

more to be desired than gold, even much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.

Proverbs 12:18

There are those who speak like the thrusts of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.

Proverbs 15:23

A man has joy by the answer of his mouth, and a word in due season, how good it is!

Proverbs 15:26

The thoughts of the wicked are very hateful to Jehovah, but the words of the pure are pleasant words.

Proverbs 17:22

A merry heart does good like a medicine, but a broken spirit dries the bones.

Proverbs 23:16

Yea, my heart shall rejoice when your lips speak right things.

Proverbs 27:9

Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart; so does the sweetness of one's friend by advice from the heart.

Proverbs 3:8

Healing shall be to your navel and marrow to your bones.

Proverbs 4:22

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

Ecclesiastes 12:10

The preacher sought to find out pleasing words; and words of truth written by the upright.

Song of Solomon 4:11

Your lips, My spouse, drop like the honeycomb; honey and milk are under your tongue; and the smell of your garments is like the smell of Lebanon.

Jeremiah 15:16

Your Words were found, and I ate them; and Your Word was to me the joy and gladness of my heart; for I am called by Your name, O Jehovah, the God of Hosts.

Deuteronomy 32:2

My doctrine shall drop as the rain; my speech shall drop down as the dew, as the small rain on the tender plant, and as the showers on the grass;

Revelation 10:10

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