22 Bible Verses about Sweetness

How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth!

Gracious words are like a honeycomb, sweetness to the soul and health to the body.

And he said to them, "Out of the eater came something to eat. Out of the strong came something sweet."And in three days they could not solve the riddle.

But the fig tree said to them, 'Shall I leave my sweetness and my good fruit and go hold sway over the trees?'

What use to me is frankincense that comes from Sheba, or sweet cane from a distant land? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices pleasing to me.

You have not bought me sweet cane with money, or satisfied me with the fat of your sacrifices. But you have burdened me with your sins; you have wearied me with your iniquities.

We used to take sweet counsel together; within God's house we walked in the throng.

And he said to me, "This water flows toward the eastern region and goes down into the Arabah, and enters the sea; when the water flows into the sea, the water will become fresh.

And wherever the river goes, every living creature that swarms will live, and there will be very many fish. For this water goes there, that the waters of the sea may become fresh; so everything will live where the river goes.

Does a spring pour forth from the same opening both fresh and salt water?

And he cried to the LORD, and the LORD showed him a log, and he threw it into the water, and the water became sweet. There the LORD made for them a statute and a rule, and there he tested them,

But its swamps and marshes will not become fresh; they are to be left for salt.

One who is full loathes honey, but to one who is hungry everything bitter 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."

My son, eat honey, for it is good, and the drippings of the honeycomb are sweet to your taste. Know that wisdom is such to your soul; if you find it, there will be a future, and your hope will not be cut off.

More to be desired are they than gold, even much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and drippings of the honeycomb.

And he said to me, "Son of man, feed your belly with this scroll that I give you and fill your stomach with it."Then I ate it, and it was in my mouth as sweet as honey.

So I went to the angel and told him to give me the little scroll. And he said to me, "Take and eat it; 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. It was sweet as honey in my mouth, but when I had eaten it my stomach was made bitter.

A desire fulfilled is sweet to the soul, but to turn away from evil is an abomination to fools.

Bread gained by deceit is sweet to a man, but afterward his mouth will be full of gravel.

"Though evil is sweet in his mouth, though he hides it under his tongue,