22 Bible Verses about Sweetness

How sweet are your sayings to my taste! truly, they are sweeter than honey in my mouth!

Pleasing words are like honey, sweet to the soul and new life to the bones.

And he said, Out of the taker of food came food, and out of the strong came the sweet. And at the end of three days they were still not able to give the answer.

But the fig-tree said to them, Am I to give up my sweet taste and my good fruit and go waving over the trees?

To what purpose does sweet perfume come to me from Sheba, and spices from a far country? your burned offerings give me no pleasure, your offerings of beasts are not pleasing to me.

You have not got me sweet-smelling plants with your money, or given me pleasure with the fat of your offerings: but you have made me a servant to your sins, and you have made me tired with your evil doings.

We had loving talk together, and went to the house of God in company.

And he said to me, These waters are flowing out to the east part of the land and down into the Arabah; and they will go to the sea, and the waters will be made sweet.

And it will come about that every living and moving thing, wherever their streams come, will have life; and there will be very much fish because these waters have come there and have been made sweet: and everything wherever the river comes will have life.

Does the fountain send from the same outlet sweet and bitter water?

And in answer to his prayer, the Lord made him see a tree, and when he put it into the water, the water was made sweet. There he gave them a law and an order, testing them;

The wet places and the pools will not be made sweet; they will be given up to salt.

The full man has no use for honey, but to the man in need of food every bitter thing is sweet.

Then on the seventh day, before he went into the bride's room, the men of the town said to him, What is sweeter than honey? and what is stronger than a lion? And he said to them, If you had not been ploughing with my cow you would not have got the answer to my question.

My son, take honey, for it is good; and the flowing honey, which is sweet to your taste: So let your desire be for wisdom: if you have it, there will be a future, and your hope will not be cut off.

More to be desired are they than gold, even than much shining gold; sweeter than the dropping honey.

And he said to me, Son of man, let your stomach make a meal of it and let your inside be full of this roll which I am giving you. Then I took it, and it was sweet as honey in my mouth.

And I went to the angel, and said to him, Give me the little book. And he said to me: Put it in your mouth; and it will make your stomach bitter, but in your mouth it will be sweet as honey.

And I took the little book out of the angel's hand and did as he said; and it was sweet as honey in my mouth: and when I had taken it, my stomach was made bitter.

To get one's desire is sweet to the soul, but to give up evil is disgusting to the foolish.

Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but after, his mouth will be full of sand.

Though evil-doing is sweet in his mouth, and he keeps it secretly under his tongue;