Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
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Proverbs 31:26 · 26 connections
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Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
The mouth of the just bringeth forth wisdom: but the froward tongue shall be cut out.
There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time.
Then Esther the queen answered and said, If I have found favour in thy sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request: …
End of linked passage: Esther 7:6By long forbearing is a prince persuaded, and a soft tongue breaketh the bone.
Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction. …
End of linked passage: Proverbs 31:9But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price. …
End of linked passage: 1 Peter 3:5But his wife said unto him, If the LORD were pleased to kill us, he would not have received a burnt offering and a meat offering at our hands, neither would he have shewed us all these things, nor would as at this time have told us such things as these.
The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in his lips: he walked with me in peace and equity, and did turn many away from iniquity.
Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;
Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous: …
End of linked passage: 1 Peter 3:9And fell at his feet, and said, Upon me, my lord, upon me let this iniquity be: and let thine handmaid, I pray thee, speak in thine audience, and hear the words of thine handmaid. …
End of linked passage: 1 Samuel 25:31If I have found favour in the sight of the king, and if it please the king to grant my petition, and to perform my request, let the king and Haman come to the banquet that I shall prepare for them, and I will do to morrow as the king hath said.
And Esther spake yet again before the king, and fell down at his feet, and besought him with tears to put away the mischief of Haman the Agagite, and his device that he had devised against the Jews. …
End of linked passage: Esther 8:6And she spake out with a loud voice, and said, Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb. …
End of linked passage: Luke 1:56Then cried a wise woman out of the city, Hear, hear; say, I pray you, unto Joab, Come near hither, that I may speak with thee. …
End of linked passage: 2 Samuel 20:22And she said unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Tell the man that sent you to me, …
End of linked passage: 2 Kings 22:20O my dove, that art in the clefts of the rock, in the secret places of the stairs, let me see thy countenance, let me hear thy voice; for sweet is thy voice, and thy countenance is comely.
Thy lips, O my spouse, drop as the honeycomb: honey and milk are under thy tongue; and the smell of thy garments is like the smell of Lebanon.
And Mary said, Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word. And the angel departed from her.
And all that sat in the council, looking stedfastly on him, saw his face as it had been the face of an angel.
And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue: whom when Aquila and Priscilla had heard, they took him unto them, and expounded unto him the way of God more perfectly.
So Esther’s maids and her chamberlains came and told it her. Then was the queen exceedingly grieved; and she sent raiment to clothe Mordecai, and to take away his sackcloth from him: but he received it not.
And she said, Drink, my lord: and she hasted, and let down her pitcher upon her hand, and gave him drink. …
End of linked passage: Genesis 24:20Original source and licence · Import and validation record · Five excluded rows