Proverbs 25:16
Have you found honey? Eat as much as is sufficient for you, lest you eat too much, and vomit it.
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- Prov 25:27 : 27 It is not good to eat much honey; nor is it honorable to seek one's own honor.
- Isa 7:15 : 15 He shall eat butter and honey when he knows to refuse the evil, and choose the good.
- Isa 7:22 : 22 and it shall happen, that because of the abundance of milk which they shall give he shall eat butter: for everyone will eat butter and honey that is left in the midst of the land.
- Luke 21:34 : 34 "So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly.
- Eph 5:18 : 18 Don't be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,
- Judg 14:8-9 : 8 After a while he returned to take her; and he turned aside to see the carcass of the lion: and behold, there was a swarm of bees in the body of the lion, and honey. 9 He took it into his hands, and went on, eating as he went; and he came to his father and mother, and gave to them, and they ate: but he didn't tell them that he had taken the honey out of the body of the lion.
- 1 Sam 14:25-27 : 25 All the people came into the forest; and there was honey on the ground. 26 When the people were come to the forest, behold, the honey dropped: but no man put his hand to his mouth; for the people feared the oath. 27 But Jonathan didn't hear when his father commanded the people with the oath: therefore he put forth the end of the rod who was in his hand, and dipped it in the honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth; and his eyes were enlightened.
- Prov 23:8 : 8 The morsel which you have eaten you shall vomit up, and lose your good words.
- Prov 24:13-14 : 13 My son, eat honey, for it is good; the droppings of the honeycomb, which are sweet to your taste: 14 so 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.
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- Prov 24:13-142 verses79%
13 My son, eat honey, for it is good; the droppings of the honeycomb, which are sweet to your taste:
14 so 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.
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7 A full soul loathes a honeycomb; but to a hungry soul, every bitter thing is sweet.
- Prov 23:6-83 verses77%
6 Don't eat the food of him who has a stingy eye, and don't crave his delicacies:
7 for as he thinks about the cost, so he is. "Eat and drink!" he says to you, but his heart is not with you.
8 The morsel which you have eaten you shall vomit up, and lose your good words.
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27 It is not good to eat much honey; nor is it honorable to seek one's own honor.
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17 Let your foot be seldom in your neighbor's house, lest he be weary of you, and hate you.
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24 Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
- Prov 23:2-32 verses70%
2 put a knife to your throat, if you are a man given to appetite.
3 Don't be desirous of his dainties, since they are deceitful food.
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10 More to be desired are they than gold, yes, than much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and the extract of the honeycomb.
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15 By patience a ruler is persuaded. A soft tongue breaks the bone.
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20 A man's stomach is filled with the fruit of his mouth. With the harvest of his lips he is satisfied.
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103 How sweet are your promises to my taste, more than honey to my mouth!
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17 Fraudulent food is sweet to a man, but afterwards his mouth is filled with gravel.
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12 lest, when you have eaten and are full, and have built goodly houses, and lived therein;
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17 "Stolen water is sweet. Food eaten in secret is pleasant."
- Job 20:12-154 verses69%
12 "Though wickedness is sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue,
13 though he spare it, and will not let it go, but keep it still within his mouth;
14 yet his food in his bowels is turned. It is cobra venom within him.
15 He has swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again. God will cast them out of his belly.
- 1 Sam 14:25-262 verses69%
25 All the people came into the forest; and there was honey on the ground.
26 When the people were come to the forest, behold, the honey dropped: but no man put his hand to his mouth; for the people feared the oath.
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24 When you come into your neighbor's vineyard, then you may eat of grapes your fill at your own pleasure; but you shall not put any in your vessel.
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16 Don't be overly righteous, neither make yourself overly wise. Why should you destroy yourself?
- Prov 5:2-32 verses68%
2 that you may maintain discretion, that your lips may preserve knowledge.
3 For the lips of an adulteress drip honey. Her mouth is smoother than oil,
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17 He shall not look at the rivers, the flowing streams of honey and butter.
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25 The righteous one eats to the satisfying of his soul, but the belly of the wicked goes hungry.
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5 "Come, eat some of my bread, Drink some of the wine which I have mixed!
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29 Then Jonathan said, "My father has troubled the land. Please look how my eyes have been enlightened, because I tasted a little of this honey.
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10 You shall eat and be full, and you shall bless Yahweh your God for the good land which he has given you.
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18 For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you, if all of them are ready on your lips.
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7 All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
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10 He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he who loves abundance, with increase: this also is vanity.
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15 He shall eat butter and honey when he knows to refuse the evil, and choose the good.
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2 Why do you spend money for that which is not bread? and your labor for that which doesn't satisfy? listen diligently to me, and eat you that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.
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20 Don't be among ones drinking too much wine, or those who gorge themselves on meat:
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14 You shall eat, but not be satisfied. Your humiliation will be in your midst. You will store up, but not save; and that which you save I will give up to the sword.
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17 Happy are you, land, when your king is the son of nobles, and your princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!
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19 My bread also which I gave you, fine flour, and oil, and honey, with which I fed you, you even set it before them for a pleasant aroma; and [thus] it was, says the Lord Yahweh.
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11 and houses full of all good things, which you didn't fill, and cisterns dug out, which you didn't dig, vineyards and olive trees, which you didn't plant, and you shall eat and be full;
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16 Better is little, with the fear of Yahweh, than great treasure with trouble.
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20 For why should you, my son, be captivated with an adulteress? Why embrace the bosom of another?
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10 so your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will overflow with new wine.
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12 The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much; but the abundance of the rich will not allow him to sleep.
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32 "If you have done foolishly in lifting up yourself, or if you have thought evil, put your hand over your mouth.
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25 You shall not eat it; that it may go well with you, and with your children after you, when you shall do that which is right in the eyes of Yahweh.