22 Bible Verses about Sweetness
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How pleasing is what you have to say to me tasting better than honey.
Pleasant words are honey from a honeycomb sweet to the soul and healing for the body.
So he told them: From the eater came something edible; from the strong something sweet. For three days they couldn't solve the riddle.
But the fig tree asked them, "Should I leave my sweet, good fruit and go take dominion over trees?'
What good is frankincense that comes from Sheba to me, or sweet cane from a distant country? Your burnt offerings aren't acceptable, nor are your sacrifices pleasing to me."
You haven't bought me sweet cane with money, nor have you satisfied me with the fat of your sacrifices. You have only burdened me with your sins and made me tired with your iniquities.
He told me, "This river flows toward the eastern territories all the way down into the Arabah, and from there its water flows toward the Dead Sea, where the sea water turns fresh.
It will support all kinds of living creatures that will thrive abundantly wherever the river flows. There will be a great many fish, because this water will flow there and turn the salt water fresh. As a result, everything will live wherever the river flows.
A spring cannot pour both fresh and brackish water from the same opening, can it?
Moses cried out to the LORD, and the LORD showed him a tree, which he threw into the water, and the water became sweet.
"The river delta will consist of swamps and marshes that will remain a salt water wetland preserve.
The person who is full spurns honey, but to a hungry person even the bitter seems sweet.
Then the men of the city answered him just before sunset on the seventh day: "What is sweeter than honey? What are stronger than lions?" Samson responded, "If you hadn't plowed with my heifer, you wouldn't have solved my riddle."
My son, eat honey, because it's good for you; indeed, drippings from the honeycomb are sweet to your taste; Keep in mind that wisdom is like that for your soul; if you find it, there will be a future for you, and what you hope for won't be cut short.
They are more desirable than gold, even much fine gold. They are sweeter than honey, even the drippings from a honeycomb.
Then he told me, "Son of Man, fill your stomach and digest this scroll that I'm giving you." So I ate it, and it was like sweet honey in my mouth.
So I went to the angel and asked him to give me the small scroll. "Take it and eat it," he told me. "It will turn bitter in your stomach, but it will be as sweet as honey in your mouth."
So I took the small scroll from the angel's hand and ate it. It was as sweet as honey in my mouth, but when I had eaten it, it turned bitter in my stomach.
Bread gained by deceit is sweet to a man, but later his mouth will be full of gravel.
Though evil tastes sweet in his mouth, though he conceals it under his tongue,
