Proverbs 25:16
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16 Have you found honey?
Eat only as much as you need,
Lest you be filled with it and vomit.
Proverbs 25:27
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27 It is not good to eat much honey;
So (A)to seek one’s own glory is not glory.
Ephesians 5:18
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18 And (A)do not be drunk with wine, in which is dissipation; but be filled with the Spirit,
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Proverbs 24:13-14
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13 My son, (A)eat honey because it is good,
And the honeycomb which is sweet to your taste;
14 (B)So shall the knowledge of wisdom be to your soul;
If you have found it, there is a [a]prospect,
And your hope will not be cut off.
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- Proverbs 24:14 Lit. latter end
Luke 21:34
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The Importance of Watching(A)
34 “But (B)take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down with [a]carousing, drunkenness, and (C)cares of this life, and that Day come on you unexpectedly.
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- Luke 21:34 dissipation
Judges 14:8-9
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8 After some time, when he returned to get her, he turned aside to see the carcass of the lion. And behold, a swarm of bees and honey were in the carcass of the lion. 9 He took some of it in his hands and went along, eating. When he came to his father and mother, he gave some to them, and they also ate. But he did not tell them that he had taken the honey out of the (A)carcass of the lion.
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Isaiah 7:22
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22 So it shall be, from the abundance of milk they give,
That he will eat curds;
For curds and honey everyone will eat who is left in the land.
Isaiah 7:15
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15 Curds and honey He shall eat, that He may know to refuse the evil and choose the good.
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Proverbs 23:8
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8 The morsel you have eaten, you will vomit up,
And waste your pleasant words.
1 Samuel 14:25-27
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25 (A)Now all the people of the land came to a forest; and there was (B)honey on the ground. 26 And when the people had come into the woods, there was the honey, dripping; but no one put his hand to his mouth, for the people feared the oath. 27 But Jonathan had not heard his father charge the people with the oath; therefore he stretched out the end of the rod that was in his hand and dipped it in a honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth; and his [a]countenance brightened.
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- 1 Samuel 14:27 Lit. eyes
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