Proverbs 24:13

Geneva Bible (1560)

My sonne, eate hony, for 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, my sister, my spouse: I gathered my myrrhe with my spice: I ate mine hony combe with mine hony, I dranke my wine with my milke: eate, O friends, drinke, and make you mery, O welbeloued.
  • Isa 7:15 : 15 Butter and hony shal he eate, till he haue knowledge to refuse the euill, and to chuse the good.
  • Prov 25:16 : 16 If thou haue found hony, eate that is sufficient for thee, least thou be ouerfull, & vomit it.
  • Prov 25:27 : 27 It is not good to eate much hony: so to search their owne glory is not glory.
  • Song 4:11 : 11 Thy lippes, my spouse, droppe as honie combes: honie and milke are vnder thy tongue, and the sauoure of thy garments is as the sauoure of Lebanon.
  • Ps 19:10 : 10 And more to be desired then golde, yea, then much fine golde: sweeter also then honie and the honie combe.
  • Ps 119:103 : 103 Howe sweete are thy promises vnto my mouth! yea, more then hony vnto my mouth.
  • Matt 3:4 : 4 And this Iohn had his garment of camels heare, and a girdle of a skinne about his loynes: his meate was also locusts and wilde hony.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 25:16
    79%

    16If thou haue found hony, eate that is sufficient for thee, least thou be ouerfull, & vomit it.

  • Prov 16:23-24
    2 verses
    78%

    23The heart of the wise guideth his mouth wisely, and addeth doctrine to his lippes.

    24Faire wordes are as an hony combe, sweetenesse to the soule, and health to the bones.

  • Prov 24:14
    77%

    14So shall the knowledge of wisdome be vnto thy soule, if thou finde it, and there shall be an ende, and thine hope shall not be cut off.

  • Ps 119:103
    77%

    103Howe sweete are thy promises vnto my mouth! yea, more then hony vnto my mouth.

  • Prov 27:7
    76%

    7The person that is full, despiseth an hony combe: but vnto the hungry soule euery bitter thing is sweete.

  • Ps 19:10
    75%

    10And more to be desired then golde, yea, then much fine golde: sweeter also then honie and the honie combe.

  • Isa 7:15
    75%

    15Butter and hony shal he eate, till he haue knowledge to refuse the euill, and to chuse the good.

  • 1 Sam 14:29
    74%

    29Then said Ionathan, My father hath troubled the land: see nowe howe mine eyes are made cleare, because I haue tasted a litle of this honie:

  • Prov 25:27
    72%

    27It is not good to eate much hony: so to search their owne glory is not glory.

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

    25And all they of the land came to a wood, where hony lay vpon the ground.

    26And the people came into the wood, and beholde, the hony dropped, and no man mooued his hand to his mouth: for the people feared the othe.

    27But Ionathan heard not when his father charged the people with the othe: wherefore he put foorth the ende of the rod that was in his hand, and dipt it in an hony combe, and put his hand to his mouth, and his eyes receiued sight.

  • Prov 9:17
    72%

    17Stollen waters are sweete, and hid bread is pleasant.

  • Prov 23:19
    72%

    19O thou my sonne, heare, and bee wise, and guide thine heart in the way.

  • Judg 14:8-9
    2 verses
    71%

    8And within a fewe dayes, when he returned to receiue her, he went aside to see the karkeis of the Lion: and behold, there was a swarme of bees, and hony in the body of the Lyon.

    9And he tooke therof in his handes, and went eating, and came to his father and to his mother, and gaue vnto them, and they did eate: but hee told not them, that he had taken the hony out of the body of the lyon.

  • Prov 24:12
    71%

    12If thou say, Beholde, we knew not of it: he that pondereth the heartes, doeth not hee vnderstand it? And hee that keepeth thy soule, knoweth he it not? Will not he also recompense euery man according to his workes?

  • Prov 16:21
    71%

    21The wise in heart shall bee called prudent: and the sweetenesse of the lippes shall increase doctrine.

  • Prov 22:18
    71%

    18For it shalbe pleasant, if thou keepe them in thy bellie, and if they be directed together in thy lippes.

  • Prov 5:1-3
    3 verses
    71%

    1My sonne, hearken vnto my wisedome, & incline thine eare vnto my knowledge.

    2That thou maiest regarde counsell, and thy lippes obserue knowledge.

    3For the lippes of a strange woman drop as an honie combe, and her mouth is more soft then oyle.

  • Prov 23:15-16
    2 verses
    71%

    15My sonne, if thine heart be wise, mine heart shall reioyce, and I also.

    16And my reynes shall reioyce, when thy lips speake righteous things.

  • Job 20:12
    71%

    12When wickednesse was sweete in his mouth, and he hid it vnder his tongue,

  • Prov 23:8
    70%

    8Thou shalt vomit thy morsels that thou hast eaten, and thou shalt lose thy sweete wordes.

  • Prov 13:2
    70%

    2A man shall eate good things by the fruite of his mouth: but the soule of the trespassers shall suffer violence.

  • Prov 2:10
    70%

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

  • Prov 12:14
    70%

    14A man shalbe satiate with good things by the fruite of his mouth, and the recompence of a mans hands shall God giue vnto him.

  • Prov 27:11
    70%

    11My sonne, be wise, and reioyce mine heart, that I may answere him that reprocheth me.

  • Isa 7:22
    70%

    22And for the abundance of milke, that they shall giue, hee shall eate butter: for butter and hony shall euery one eate, which is left within the land.

  • Ezek 3:3
    70%

    3And he said vnto me, Sonne of man, cause thy belly to eate, and fill thy bowels with this roule that I giue thee. Then did I eate it, and it was in my mouth as sweete as honie.

  • Prov 4:10
    70%

    10Heare, my sonne, & receiue my wordes, and the yeeres of thy life shalbe many.

  • Prov 20:17
    70%

    17The bread of deceit is sweete to a man: but afterward his mouth shalbe filled with grauel.

  • Job 5:27
    70%

    27Lo, thus haue we inquired of it, and so it is: heare this and knowe it for thy selfe.

  • Deut 32:13
    69%

    13He caryed him vp to the hie places of the earth, that he might eate the fruites of the fieldes, and he caused him to sucke hony out of the stone, and oyle out of the hard rocke:

  • Prov 23:26
    69%

    26My sonne, giue mee thine heart, and let thine eyes delite in my wayes.

  • Job 34:3
    69%

    3For the eare tryeth the words, as the mouth tasteth meate.

  • 1 Sam 14:43
    69%

    43Then Saul said to Ionathan, Tell me what thou hast done; Ionathan tolde him, & said, I tasted a litle hony with the ende of the rod, that was in mine hand, and loe, I must die.

  • Prov 9:5
    69%

    5Come, and eate of my meate, and drinke of the wine that I haue drawen.

  • Ps 128:2
    69%

    2When thou eatest the labours of thine hands, thou shalt be blessed, and it shall be well with thee.

  • Prov 4:22
    69%

    22For they are life vnto those that find them, and health vnto all their flesh.

  • Job 20:17
    69%

    17He shall not see the riuers, nor the floods and streames of honie and butter.

  • Ps 34:8
    69%

    8Taste ye and see, howe gratious the Lorde is: blessed is the man that trusteth in him.

  • Job 12:11
    69%

    11Doeth not the eares discerne the words? and the mouth taste meate for it selfe?

  • Prov 3:13
    68%

    13Blessed is the man that findeth wisedome, and the man that getteth vnderstanding.

  • Prov 29:17
    68%

    17Correct thy sonne & he will giue thee rest, and will giue pleasures to thy soule.

  • Eccl 2:24
    68%

    24There is no profit to man: but that he eate, and drinke, & delight his soule with the profit of his labour: I saw also this, that it was of the hand of God.