22 Bible Verses about Sweetness
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How sweet are thy words unto my taste! more than honey to my mouth!
Pleasant words are as a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health for the bones.
And he said to them, "Out of the eater came something to eat. Out of the strong came something sweet." And they could not in three days tell what the riddle was.
But the fig tree said to them, 'Shall I leave my sweetness and my good fruit, and go to sway over the trees?'
To what purpose should there come to me incense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? Your burnt-offerings are not acceptable, nor are your sacrifices pleasing unto me.
Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices; but thou hast made me to toil with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities.
And he said unto me, These waters issue out toward the east district, and go down into the plain, and go into the sea; when they are brought forth into the sea, the waters thereof shall be healed.
And it shall come to pass that every living thing which moveth, whithersoever the double river shall come, shall live. And there shall be a very great multitude of fish; for these waters shall come thither, and the waters of the sea shall be healed; and everything shall live whither the river cometh.
And he cried to Jehovah; and Jehovah shewed him wood, and he cast it into the waters, and the waters became sweet. There he made for them a statute and an ordinance; and there he tested them.
But its marshes and its pools shall not be healed; they shall be given up to salt.
The full soul trampleth on a honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.
And the men of the city said to him on the seventh day before the sun went down, "What is sweeter than honey? What is stronger than a lion?" And he said to them, "If you had not plowed with my heifer, you would not have found out my riddle."
Eat honey, my son, for it is good; and a honeycomb is sweet to thy taste: so consider wisdom for thy soul; if thou hast found it, there shall be a result, and thine expectation shall not be cut off.
They are more precious than gold, yea, than much fine gold; and sweeter than honey and the dropping of the honeycomb.
And he said unto me, Son of man, cause thy belly to eat, and fill thy bowels with this roll which I give thee. And I ate, and it was in my mouth as honey for sweetness.
And I went to the angel, saying to him to give me the little book. And he says to me, Take and eat it up: and it shall make thy belly bitter, but in thy mouth it shall be sweet as honey.
And I took the little book out of the hand of the angel, and ate it up; and it was in my mouth as honey, sweet; and when I had eaten it my belly was made bitter.
The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul; but it is abomination to the foolish to depart from evil.
Bread of falsehood is sweet to a man, but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
