Proverbs 24:13

KJV1611 – Modern English

My son, eat honey because it is good, and the honeycomb, which is sweet to your taste.

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  • Song 5:1 : 1 I have come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, O friends; drink, yes, drink abundantly, O beloved.
  • Isa 7:15 : 15 Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil and choose the good.
  • Prov 25:16 : 16 Have you found honey? Eat only as much as you need, lest you be filled with it and vomit.
  • Prov 25:27 : 27 It is not good to eat much honey, nor is it glory to search out one's own glory.
  • Song 4:11 : 11 Your lips, O my spouse, drop as the honeycomb: honey and milk are under your tongue; and the fragrance of your garments is like the fragrance of Lebanon.
  • Ps 19:10 : 10 More to be desired are they than gold, yes, than much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.
  • Ps 119:103 : 103 How sweet are Your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth!
  • Matt 3:4 : 4 And this same John wore clothing made of camel's hair, and a leather belt around his waist; and his food was locusts and wild honey.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 25:16
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    16 Have you found honey? Eat only as much as you need, lest you be filled with it and vomit.

  • Prov 16:23-24
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    78%

    23 The heart of the wise teaches his mouth, and adds learning to his lips.

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

  • Prov 24:14
    77%

    14 So shall the knowledge of wisdom be to your soul: when you have found it, then there shall be a reward, and your expectation shall not be cut off.

  • Ps 119:103
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    103 How sweet are Your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth!

  • Prov 27:7
    76%

    7 The full soul loathes honeycomb, but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.

  • Ps 19:10
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    10 More to be desired are they than gold, yes, than much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.

  • Isa 7:15
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    15 Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil and choose the good.

  • 1 Sam 14:29
    74%

    29 Then Jonathan said, "My father has troubled the land. See, my eyes have brightened because I tasted a little of this honey.

  • Prov 25:27
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    27 It is not good to eat much honey, nor is it glory to search out one's own glory.

  • 1 Sam 14:25-27
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    25 All the people of the land came to a forest, and there was honey on the ground.

    26 When the people came into the forest, behold, the honey was dripping, but no one put his hand to his mouth, for the people feared the oath.

    27 But Jonathan had not heard when his father charged the people with the oath, so he put out the end of the rod that was in his hand and dipped it in a honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth; and his eyes brightened.

  • Prov 9:17
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    17 Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.

  • Prov 23:19
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    19 Hear, my son, and be wise, and guide your heart in the way.

  • Judg 14:8-9
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    8 And after a time he returned to take her, and he turned aside to see the carcass of the lion. And behold, there was a swarm of bees and honey in the carcass of the lion.

    9 And he took some in his hands, and went on eating, and came to his father and mother, and he gave them some, and they ate. But he did not tell them that he had taken the honey out of the carcass of the lion.

  • Prov 24:12
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    12 If you say, Behold, we did not know this; does not he who ponders the heart consider it? And he who keeps your soul, does he not know it? And shall he not render to every man according to his works?

  • Prov 16:21
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    21 The wise in heart shall be called prudent, and the sweetness of the lips increases learning.

  • Prov 22:18
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    18 For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you; they shall all be ready on your lips.

  • Prov 5:1-3
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    71%

    1 My son, attend to my wisdom, and incline your ear to my understanding:

    2 That you may keep discretion, and that your lips may preserve knowledge.

    3 For the lips of a strange woman drip as a honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:

  • Prov 23:15-16
    2 verses
    71%

    15 My son, if your heart is wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.

    16 Yes, my inmost being shall rejoice, when your lips speak right things.

  • Job 20:12
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    12 Though wickedness is sweet in his mouth, though he hides it under his tongue,

  • Prov 23:8
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    8 The morsel which you have eaten, you shall vomit up, and lose your sweet words.

  • Prov 13:2
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    2 A man shall eat well by the fruit of his mouth, but the soul of the transgressors shall eat violence.

  • Prov 2:10
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    10 When wisdom enters your heart and knowledge is pleasant to your soul;

  • Prov 12:14
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    14 A man will be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth, and the recompense of a man's hands will be rendered to him.

  • Prov 27:11
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    11 My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may have an answer for him who reproaches me.

  • Isa 7:22
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    22 And it shall come to pass, because of the abundance of milk that they shall give, he shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall everyone eat who is left in the land.

  • Ezek 3:3
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    3 And he said to me, Son of man, fill your stomach and fill your insides with this scroll that I give you. So I ate it; and it was in my mouth as sweet as honey.

  • Prov 4:10
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    10 Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of your life will be many.

  • Prov 20:17
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    17 Bread gained by deceit is sweet to a man, but afterward his mouth shall be filled with gravel.

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    27 Behold this, we have searched it out, it is true; hear it, and know it for your good.

  • Deut 32:13
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    13 He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;

  • Prov 23:26
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    26 My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes observe my ways.

  • Job 34:3
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    3 For the ear tries words as the mouth tastes food.

  • 1 Sam 14:43
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    43 Then Saul said to Jonathan, "Tell me what you have done." Jonathan told him, "I only tasted a little honey with the end of the rod that was in my hand; and now I must die."

  • Prov 9:5
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    5 Come, eat of my bread, and drink of the wine which I have mixed.

  • Ps 128:2
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    2 For you shall eat the labor of your hands; happy shall you be, and it shall be well with you.

  • Prov 4:22
    69%

    22 For they are life to those who find them, and health to all their flesh.

  • Job 20:17
    69%

    17 He shall not see the rivers, the streams, the brooks of honey and butter.

  • Ps 34:8
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    8 O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man who trusts in him.

  • Job 12:11
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    11 Does not the ear test words? and the mouth taste its food?

  • Prov 3:13
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    13 Happy is the man that finds wisdom, and the man that gains understanding.

  • Prov 29:17
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    17 Correct your son, and he will give you rest; yes, he will give delight to your soul.

  • Eccl 2:24
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    24 There is nothing better for a man than to eat and drink and enjoy the good of his labor. This also, I saw, is from the hand of God.