22 Bible Verses about Sweetness

How sweet are Your Words to my taste! More than honey to my mouth!

Pleasant words are like a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

And he said to them, Out of the eater came forth food, and out of the strong came forth sweetness. And in three days they were not able to declare the riddle.

But the fig tree said to them, Should I forsake my sweetness and my good fruit, and go to be promoted over the trees?

Why does frankincense come to Me from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? Your burnt offerings are not pleasing, nor your sacrifices sweet to Me.

You have bought Me no sweet cane with silver, nor have you filled Me with the fat of your sacrifices; but you have burdened Me with your sins; you have wearied Me with your iniquities.

We took sweet counsel together, and walked to the house of God in company.

And he said to me, These waters go out toward the eastern circuit, and go down into the Arabah, and go into the sea. They are brought out into the sea, and the waters shall be healed.

And it shall be that every living soul which swarms in every place, there where the two torrents go, that soul shall live. And there shall be very many fish, because these waters shall come there. And they shall be healed. And all shall live where the torrent goes.

Does a fountain send forth at the same hole the sweet and the bitter?

And he cried to Jehovah. And Jehovah showed him a tree. And when he had cast it into the waters, the waters were made sweet. There He made a decree and a law for them, and there He tested them.

Its swamps and its marshes shall not even be healed; they shall be given to salt.

The full soul despises 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, and what 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, because it is good; and the honeycomb is sweet to your palate; so shall the knowledge of wisdom be to your soul; when you have found it, then there shall be a reward, and your hope shall not be cut off.

more to be desired than gold, even much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.

And He said to me, Son of man, cause your belly to eat, and fill your belly with this roll that I give you. Then I ate it; and in my mouth it was like honey for sweetness.

And I went to the angel and said to him, Give me the little book. And he said to me, Take it and eat it up, and it will make your belly bitter, but it will be sweet as honey in your mouth.

And I took the little book out of the angel's hand and ate it up. And it was sweet as honey in my mouth, and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was made bitter.

The desire fulfilled is sweet to the soul, but it is hateful to fools to turn from evil.

Bread of deceit is sweet to a man, but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.

Though wickedness is sweet in his mouth, though he hides it under his tongue;