KJV King James Version
Pleasant words [are as] an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
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Proverbs 16:24
Pleasant words [are as] an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones.
WEB World English Bible
Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
ASV American Standard Version
Pleasant words are as a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Sayings of pleasantness are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul, and healing to the bone.
Surrounding context — Proverbs 16
21 The wise in heart shall be called prudent: and the sweetness of the lips increaseth learning.
22 Understanding [is] a wellspring of life unto him that hath it: but the instruction of fools [is] folly.
23 The heart of the wise teacheth his mouth, and addeth learning to his lips.
24 Pleasant words [are as] an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
25 There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof [are] the ways of death.
26 He that laboureth laboureth for himself; for his mouth craveth it of him.
27 An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips [there is] as a burning fire.
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Proverbs 12:18There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise [is] health.Proverbs 24:13-14My son, eat thou honey, because [it is] good; and the honeycomb, [which is] sweet to thy taste:Proverbs 25:11-12A word fitly spoken [is like] apples of gold in pictures of silver.Proverbs 4:22For they [are] life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.Proverbs 23:16Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things.Psalm 119:103How sweet are thy words unto my taste! [yea, sweeter] than honey to my mouth!Proverbs 3:8It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.Proverbs 27:9Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so [doth] the sweetness of a man’s friend by hearty counsel.Psalm 19:10More to be desired [are they] than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.Proverbs 15:26The thoughts of the wicked [are] an abomination to the LORD: but [the words] of the pure [are] pleasant words.Jeremiah 15:16Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O LORD God of hosts.Deuteronomy 32:2My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:John 20:19-21Then the same day at evening, being the first [day] of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and saith unto them, Peace [be] unto you.Proverbs 15:23A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word [spoken] in due season, how good [is it]!Song of Solomon 4:11Thy lips, O [my] spouse, drop [as] the honeycomb: honey and milk [are] under thy tongue; and the smell of thy garments [is] like the smell of Lebanon.
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