Proverbs 16:24
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Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones.
In other translations
Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones.
Hebrew words
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Related verses
- Proverbs 12:18There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.Speaking rashly is like a piercing sword, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.
- Proverbs 24:13-1413 My son, eat thou honey, because it is good; and the honeycomb, which is sweet to thy taste: 14 So shall the knowledge of wisdom be unto thy soul: when thou hast found it, then there shall be a reward, and thy expectation shall not be cut off.13 Eat honey, my son, for it is good, and the honeycomb is sweet to your taste. 14 Know therefore that wisdom is sweet to your soul. If you find it, there is a future for you, and your hope will never be cut off.
- Proverbs 4:22For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.For they are life to those who find them, and health to the whole body.
- Proverbs 25:11-1211 A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver. 12 As an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover upon an obedient ear.11 A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver. 12 Like an earring of gold or an ornament of fine gold is a wise man’s rebuke to a listening ear.
- Proverbs 23:16Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things.My inmost being will rejoice when your lips speak what is right.
- Psalm 119:103How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!How sweet are Your words to my taste— sweeter than honey in my mouth!
- Proverbs 3:8It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.This will bring healing to your body and refreshment to your bones.
- Proverbs 27:9Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so doth the sweetness of a man’s friend by hearty counsel.Oil and incense bring joy to the heart, and the sweetness of a friend is counsel to the soul.
- Psalm 19:10More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.They are more precious than gold, than much pure gold; they are sweeter than honey, than honey from the comb.
- Proverbs 15:26The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the Lord: but the words of the pure are pleasant words.The LORD detests the thoughts of the wicked, but the words of the pure are pleasant to Him.
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