22 Bible Verses about Sweetness

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

Pleasant words are as a honeycomb, sweetness to life, and health to the bones.

He said: Out of the eater came something to eat; Out of the strong came something sweet. Three days later they still could not figure out the riddle.

The fig tree replied: 'I would have to stop producing my good sweet fruit that I may govern you.'

What purpose does frankincense come to me from Sheba and the sweet cane from a distant land? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable and your sacrifices are not pleasing to me.

You did not buy me any sugar cane with your money or satisfy me with the best part of your sacrifices. Rather, you burdened me with your sins and troubled me with your iniquities.

We took sweet fellowship together and walked into God's house with the crowds.

He said: This water flows through the land to the east, down into the Jordan Valley, and into the Dead Sea. When the water flows into the Dead Sea, it will replace the salt water there with fresh water.

Wherever the river flows, there will be many fish and animals. The river will make the water in the Dead Sea fresh. Wherever the river flows, it will bring life.

Does the fountain send forth from the same opening sweet water and bitter?

Moses cried out to Jehovah. Jehovah showed him a piece of wood. He threw it into the water, and the water became sweet. Jehovah presented laws and rules for them to live by. He tested them there.

But the water in the swamps and marshes will not become fresh. It will remain salty.

The full person dislikes the honeycomb, but to the hungry every bitter thing is sweet.

On the seventh day, before Samson went into the bedroom, the men of the city said to him: What could be sweeter than honey? What could be stronger than a lion? Samson replied: If you had not been plowing with my cow, you would not know the answer now.

My son, eat honey because it is good; and the honeycomb, which is sweet to your taste. The knowledge of wisdom is sweet to you. When you find the knowledge of wisdom there is a reward. Your hope will not fail.

They are more desirable than gold, even the finest gold. They are sweeter than honey, even the drippings from a honeycomb.

He said: Son of man, eat this scroll I am giving you, and fill your stomach with it. So I ate it, and it tasted as sweet as honey in my mouth.

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

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

Desire accomplished is sweetness to life. It is an abomination to fools to depart from evil.

Bread taken by deceit tastes sweet to a man. Afterwards his mouth will be filled with gravel.

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