Parallel Verses
King James 2000
Pleasant words are as a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
New American Standard Bible
Sweet to the soul and
King James Version
Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
Holman Bible
sweet to the taste
International Standard Version
Pleasant words are honey from a honeycomb sweet to the soul and healing for the body.
A Conservative Version
Pleasant words are a honeycomb: Sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
American Standard Version
Pleasant words are as a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
Amplified
Pleasant words are like a honeycomb,
Sweet and delightful to the soul and healing to the body.
Bible in Basic English
Pleasing words are like honey, sweet to the soul and new life to the bones.
Darby Translation
Pleasant words are as a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health for the bones.
Julia Smith Translation
Words of pleasantness an, honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and healing to the bones.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Pleasant sayings [are] a honeycomb, sweetness to the soul and healing to the bones.
Modern King James verseion
Pleasant words are like a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Fair words are a honeycomb, a refreshing of the mind, and health of the bones.
NET Bible
Pleasant words are like a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones.
New Heart English Bible
Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
The Emphasized Bible
A comb of honey, are pleasant words, sweet to the taste and healing to the bone.
Webster
Pleasant words are as a honey-comb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
World English Bible
Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
Youngs Literal Translation
Sayings of pleasantness are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul, and healing to the bone.
Themes
Honey » In the honeycomb sweetest and most valuable
Honey » Illustrative of » Pleasant words
Topics
Interlinear
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 16:24
Verse Info
Context Readings
Proverbs Of Solomon
23 The heart of the wise teaches his mouth, and adds learning to his lips. 24 Pleasant words are as a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones. 25 There is a way that seems right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
Cross References
Psalm 19:10
More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.
Proverbs 4:22
For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.
Proverbs 15:26
The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the LORD: but the words of the pure are pleasant words.
Proverbs 24:13-14
My son, eat honey because it is good; and the honeycomb, which is sweet to your taste:
Proverbs 12:18
There is one that speaks like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise brings health.
Proverbs 15:23
A man has joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in due season, how good is it!
Proverbs 25:11-12
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.
Deuteronomy 32:2
My teaching shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:
Psalm 119:103
How sweet are your words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!
Proverbs 3:8
It shall be health to your body, and strength to your bones.
Proverbs 23:16
Yea, my inmost being shall rejoice, when your lips speak right things.
Proverbs 27:9
Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so does the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel.
Song of Songs 4:11
Your lips, O my spouse, drop like the honeycomb: honey and milk are under your tongue; and the fragrance of your garments is like the fragrance of Lebanon.
Jeremiah 15:16
Your words were found, and I did eat them; and your word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of my heart: for I am called by your name, O LORD God of hosts.
John 20:19-21
Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and said unto them, Peace be unto you.