22 Bible Verses about Sweetness

O how sweet are thy words unto my throat! Yea, sweeter than honey unto my mouth!

Fair words are a honeycomb, a refreshing of the mind, and health of the bones.

And he said unto them, "Out of the eater came meat: and out of the strong came sweetness." And they could not in three days expound the riddle.

And the fig tree answered them, 'Should I forsake my sweetness and my good fruit, and should go to be promoted over the trees?'

Wherefore bring ye me incense from Sheba, and sweet smelling Calamus from far countries? Your burnt offerings displease me, and I rejoice not in your sacrifices.

But thou hast laden me with thy sins, and wearied me with thine ungodliness.

We took sweet counsel together, and walked in the house of God as friends.

Then said he unto me, "This water that floweth out toward the East, and runneth down into the plain field, cometh into the sea: and from the sea it runneth out, and maketh the waters whole.

Yea, all that live and move, whereunto this river cometh, shall recover. And where this water cometh, there shall be many fish; For all that cometh to this water, shall be lusty and whole.

Doth a fountain send forth at one place sweet water, and bitter also?

And Moses cried unto the LORD, and he showed him a tree: and he cast it into the water, and they waxed sweet. There he made them an ordinance and a law, and there he tempted them,

As for his clay and pits, they shall not be whole. For why? It shall be occupied for salt.

He that is full, abhorreth a honeycomb; but unto him that is hungry, every sour thing is sweet.

And the men of the city said unto him the seventh day before the sun went down, "What is sweeter than honey? And what is stronger than a Lion?" Then said he unto them, "If ye had not ploughed with my calf, ye had not found out my riddle."

My son, thou eatest honey and the sweet honeycomb, because it is good and sweet in thy mouth. Even so shall the knowledge of wisdom be unto thy soul, as soon as thou hast gotten it. And there is good hope; yea, thy hope shall not be in vain.

More to be desired are they than gold, yea than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.

and said unto me, "Thou son of man, thy belly shall eat, and thy bowels shall be filled with the book, that I give thee." Then did I eat the book and it was, in my mouth, sweeter than honey.

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

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

When a desire is brought to pass, it delighteth the soul; but fools count it abomination to depart from evil.

Every man liketh the bread that is gotten in deceit; but at the last his mouth shall be filled with gravel.

When wickedness was sweet in his mouth, he hid it under his tongue.