Cross references
Proverbs 16:24
Pleasant words are a honeycomb,
sweet to the soul and healing to the bones.
Proverbs 16:24 has 15 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 15 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Proverbs 12:18 (28 votes) and Proverbs 24:13–14 (22 votes). 19 other verses point back to it. It links with 10 other books, from Deuteronomy 32 to Revelation 10.
Which verses does Proverbs 16:24 point to?
Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.
- Proverbs 12:1828 votes
Speaking rashly is like a piercing sword, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.
- Proverbs 24:13–1422 votes
Eat honey, my son, for it is good, and the honeycomb is sweet to your taste. Know therefore that wisdom is sweet to your soul. If you find it, there is a future for you, and your hope will never be cut off.
- Proverbs 4:2218 votes
For they are life to those who find them, and health to the whole body.
- Proverbs 25:11–1218 votes
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver. Like an earring of gold or an ornament of fine gold is a wise man’s rebuke to a listening ear.
- Proverbs 23:1615 votes
My inmost being will rejoice when your lips speak what is right.
- Psalm 119:10314 votes
How sweet are Your words to my taste—sweeter than honey in my mouth!
- Proverbs 3:814 votes
This will bring healing to your body and refreshment to your bones.
- Proverbs 27:913 votes
Oil and incense bring joy to the heart, and the counsel of a friend is sweetness to the soul.
- Psalm 19:1011 votes
They are more precious than gold, than much pure gold; they are sweeter than honey, than honey from the comb.
- Proverbs 15:2610 votes
The LORD detests the thoughts of the wicked, but the words of the pure are pleasant to Him.
- Jeremiah 15:169 votes
- Deuteronomy 32:28 votes
- Proverbs 15:237 votes
- John 20:19–217 votes
- Song of Solomon 4:115 votes
Which verses point to Proverbs 16:24?
The 10 strongest of 19.