Proverbs 16:24

WEB

²⁴Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

KJV

²⁴Pleasant^[+] words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

BSB

²⁴Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones.

FBV

²⁴Kind words are like a honeycomb—they taste sweet and are healthy for the body.

Extra References

Proverbs 12:18

¹⁸There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.

¹³My son, eat honey, for it is good, the droppings of the honeycomb, which are sweet to your taste; ¹⁴so you shall know wisdom to be to your soul. If you have found it, then there will be a reward: Your hope will not be cut off.

Proverbs 25:11-12

¹¹A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver. ¹²As an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover to an obedient ear.

Proverbs 4:22

²²For they are life to those who find them, and health to their whole body.

Proverbs 23:16

¹⁶Yes, my heart will rejoice when your lips speak what is right.

Proverbs 3:8

⁸It will be health to your body, and nourishment to your bones.

Psalms 119:103

¹⁰³How sweet are your promises to my taste, more than honey to my mouth!

Proverbs 27:9

⁹Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart; so does earnest counsel from a man’s friend.

Psalms 19:10

¹⁰They are more to be desired than gold, yes, than much fine gold, sweeter also than honey and the extract of the honeycomb.

Proverbs 15:26

²⁶The LORD detests the thoughts of the wicked, but the thoughts of the pure are pleasing.