22 Bible Verses about Sweetness

How smooth [are] your words to my palate, more than honey in my mouth.

Pleasant sayings [are] a honeycomb, sweetness to the soul and healing to the bones.

He said to them, "From the eater came out food, From [the] strong came out sweet." But they were unable to explain the riddle for three days.

But the fig tree said to them, 'Should I stop [producing] my sweetness, and my good crop, to go sway over the trees?'

What [is] this to me? Frankincense comes from Sheba, and the precious spice reed from a distant land. Your burnt offerings [are] not {acceptable}, your sacrifices are not pleasing to me."

You have not bought me spice reed with money or satisfied me [with] the fat of sacrifices. But you have burdened me with your sins; you have made me weary with your iniquities.

[We] who would take sweet counsel together; in the house of God we would walk with [the] throng.

And he said to me, "These waters [are] going out to the eastern region, and they go down to the {Jordan Valley}, and they come [to] the sea [and flow] into the sea [where] {they issue out}, and the waters [in the sea] will be healed.

And then every living creature [with] which it teems, {to every place the waters come} it will live; [and] very many fish will live because these waters came there, and [so] the [water] will be healed and everything [will be] alive {everywhere that} {the stream will come}.

A spring does not pour forth from the same opening fresh and bitter [water, does it]?

And he cried out to Yahweh, and Yahweh showed him [a piece of] wood, and he threw [it] into the water, and the water became sweet. There he made a rule and regulation for them, and there he tested them.

But its marshes and its swamps will not be cured, for they were given for salt.

An {appetite} that is sated spurns honey, but [to] an {appetite} that is ravenous, all bitterness [is] sweet.

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."

My child, eat honey, for [it is] good, and the dripping of the honeycomb [is] sweet to your taste. Thus know wisdom for [the sake of] your soul, if you find [it], then there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.

more desirable than gold, even much fine gold; and sweeter than honey, even honey [in the] comb.

and he said to me, "Son of man, you must give your stomach [this] to eat, and you must fill your belly [with] this scroll that I [am] giving to you." And I ate, and it became {like sweet honey} in my mouth.

And I went to the angel and told him to give me the little scroll, and he said to me, "Take and eat it up, and it will make your stomach bitter, but in your mouth it will be sweet as honey."

And I took the little scroll from the hand of the angel and ate it up, and it was sweet as honey in my mouth, and when I had eaten it, my stomach was made bitter.

A desire {fulfilled} will be sweet to the soul, but an abomination of fools is turning from evil.

Bread gained by deceit is sweet for the man, but afterward, his mouth will be filled [with] gravel.

"Though wickedness tastes sweet in his mouth, [and] he hides it under his tongue,