Proverbs 24:13

Bishops' Bible (1568)

My sonne, eate thou hony because it is good, and the hony combe, for it is sweete vnto thy mouth:

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Referenced Verses

  • Song 5:1 : 1 I am come into my garden, O my sister, my spouse, I haue gathered my Myrre with my spice: I haue eate hony with my hony combe, I haue drunke my wine with my milke: Eate O ye frendes, drinke and be merie O ye beloued.
  • Isa 7:15 : 15 Butter and honye shall he eate, vntill he knowe to refuse the euyll and choose the good.
  • Prov 25:16 : 16 If thou findest honie, eate so muche as is sufficient for thee: lest thou be ouer full, and parbreake it out agayne.
  • Prov 25:27 : 27 As it is not good to eate to muche honye, so curiously to searche the glory of heauenly thinges, is not commendable.
  • Song 4:11 : 11 Thy lippes, O my spouse, drop as the hony combe, yea mylke and hony is vnder thy tongue, and the smell of thy garmentes is like the smell of Libanus.
  • Ps 19:10 : 10 They are more to be desired then golde, yea then much fine golde: they are also sweeter then hony and the hony combe.
  • Ps 119:103 : 103 Howe sweete are thy wordes vnto my throte: truely they be sweeter then hony is to my mouth.
  • Matt 3:4 : 4 This Iohn had his rayment of Camels heere, and a girdle of a skynne about his loynes, his meate was locustes, and wylde hony.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 25:16
    79%

    16If thou findest honie, eate so muche as is sufficient for thee: lest thou be ouer full, and parbreake it out agayne.

  • Prov 16:23-24
    2 verses
    78%

    23A wyse heart ordereth his mouth wisely, and ministreth learnyng vnto his lippes.

    24Fayre wordes are an hony combe, a refresshyng of the mynde, and health of the bones.

  • Prov 24:14
    77%

    14So sweete shal the knowledge of wysdome be vnto thy soule when thou hast found it: and there shalbe hope, and thy hope shall not be cut of.

  • Ps 119:103
    77%

    103Howe sweete are thy wordes vnto my throte: truely they be sweeter then hony is to my mouth.

  • Prov 27:7
    76%

    7He that is full, abhorreth an honye combe: but vnto hym that is hungrye, euery sowre thing is sweete.

  • Ps 19:10
    75%

    10They are more to be desired then golde, yea then much fine golde: they are also sweeter then hony and the hony combe.

  • Isa 7:15
    75%

    15Butter and honye shall he eate, vntill he knowe to refuse the euyll and choose the good.

  • 1 Sam 14:29
    74%

    29The sayd Ionathan, My father hath troubled the lande: See howe myne eyes hath receaued sight, because I tasted a litle of this honie:

  • Prov 25:27
    72%

    27As it is not good to eate to muche honye, so curiously to searche the glory of heauenly thinges, is not commendable.

  • 1 Sam 14:25-27
    3 verses
    72%

    25And al they of the land came to a wood, where honie lay vpon the grounde.

    26And the people came into the wood: And behold, the honie dropped, and no man moued his hand to his mouth: for the people feared the oth.

    27But Ionathan hearde not whe his father charged the people with the oth, wherfore he put foorth the ende of the rod that was in his hand, and dipt it in an honie combe, & put his hande to his mouth, and his eyes receaued sight.

  • Prov 9:17
    72%

    17Stolen waters are sweete, & the bread that is priuily eaten, hath a good taste.

  • Prov 23:19
    72%

    19My sonne geue eare and be wyse, and set straight thyne heart in the way of the Lorde.

  • Judg 14:8-9
    2 verses
    71%

    8And within a short space after, as he wet thyther againe to take her to wife, he turned out of the way to see the carkasse of the Lion: And beholde, there was a swarme of bees and hony in the carkasse of the Lion.

    9And he toke therof in his handes, and went eating, and came to his father and mother, and gaue them also, and they did eate: But he tolde not them that he had taken the hony out of the carkasse of the Lion.

  • Prov 24:12
    71%

    12If thou wylt say, beholde I knewe not of it: doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? And he that kepeth thy soule, knoweth he it not? Shall not he also recompence euery man according to his workes?

  • Prov 16:21
    71%

    21Who so is wyse in heart, shalbe called prudent: and the sweetnesse of his lippes encreaseth learnyng.

  • Prov 22:18
    71%

    18For it is a pleasaunt thing if thou kepe them in thyne heart, and order them in thy lippes:

  • Prov 5:1-3
    3 verses
    71%

    1My sonne geue heede vnto my wisdome, and bowe thyne eare vnto my prudence:

    2That thou mayest regarde good counsell, and that thy lippes may kepe knowledge.

    3For the lippes of a straunge woman are a dropping hony combe, and her throte is more glistering then oyle:

  • Prov 23:15-16
    2 verses
    71%

    15My sonne if thy heart receaue wysdome, my heart also shall reioyce:

    16Yea my raynes shalbe very glad, if thy lippes speake the thing that is right.

  • Job 20:12
    71%

    12When wickednesse was sweete in his mouth, he hyd it vnder his tongue.

  • Prov 23:8
    70%

    8The morsels that thou hast eaten shalt thou parbreake, and loose those sweete wordes.

  • Prov 13:2
    70%

    2Of the fruite of a wise mans mouth shall eche man eate good thynges: but the wicked shall eate of the fruite of the transgressours.

  • Prov 2:10
    70%

    10When wisdome entreth into thine heart, and thy soule deliteth in knowledge:

  • Prov 12:14
    70%

    14Man shalbe satisfied with good thinges: by the fruite of his mouth, and after the workes of his handes shall he be rewarded.

  • Prov 27:11
    70%

    11My sonne be wyse, and make me a glad heart, that I may make aunswere vnto my rebukers.

  • Isa 7:22
    70%

    22Then because of the aboundaunce of mylke that they geue he shall eate butter: so that euery one which remayneth in the lande shall eate butter and hony.

  • Ezek 3:3
    70%

    3And he saide vnto me, Thou sonne of man, thy belly shall eate, and thy bowels shalt thou fill with this roule that I geue thee: Then dyd I eate, and it was in my mouth sweeter then honie.

  • Prov 4:10
    70%

    10Heare my sonne, and receaue my wordes, and the yeres of thy life shalbe many.

  • Prov 20:17
    70%

    17A man liketh the bread that is gotten with deceipt: but at the last his mouth shalbe filled with grauell.

  • Job 5:27
    70%

    27Lo, this we our selues haue proued by experience, and euen thus it is: Hearken thou to it also, that thou mayest take heede to thy selfe.

  • Deut 32:13
    69%

    13He caryed hym vp to the hygh places of the earth, that he myght eate the encrease of the fieldes: And he fed hym with honye out of the rocke, and with oyle out of the most harde stone:

  • Prov 23:26
    69%

    26My sonne geue me thyne heart, and let thyne eyes haue pleasure in my wayes:

  • Job 34:3
    69%

    3For the eare discerneth wordes, and the mouth tasteth the meates.

  • 1 Sam 14:43
    69%

    43Then Saul saide to Ionathan: Tell me what thou hast done. And Ionathan tolde him, and sayde: I tasted a litle honie with the ende of the rod that was in myne hand, & lo, I must dye.

  • Prov 9:5
    69%

    5O come on your way, eate my bread, and drinke my wine whiche I haue powred out for you.

  • Ps 128:2
    69%

    2For thou shalt eate the labours of thine handes: thou shalt be happy, and all shall go well with thee.

  • Prov 4:22
    69%

    22For they are life vnto those that finde them, and health vnto all their bodyes.

  • Job 20:17
    69%

    17So that he shall no more see the ryuers and brookes of hony and butter.

  • Ps 34:8
    69%

    8O taste and see how gracious God is: blessed is the man that trusteth in him.

  • Job 12:11
    69%

    11Haue not the eares pleasure in hearing? and the mouth in tasting the thing that it eateth?

  • Prov 3:13
    68%

    13Well is hym that findeth wysdome, and getteth vnderstandyng:

  • Prov 29:17
    68%

    17Nurture thy sonne with correction, and thou shalt be at rest: yea, he shall do thee good at thine heart.

  • Eccl 2:24
    68%

    24Is it not better then for a man to eate and drynke, and his soule to be mery in his labour? yea I sawe that this also was a gift of God.