What Does the Bible Say About Chocolate?
Here are 11 Bible verses about chocolate, ordered by how relevant readers found them, with the King James Version and the modern Berean Standard Bible side by side.
- #1Psalms 119:103
How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!
BSBHow sweet are Your words to my taste— sweeter than honey in my mouth!
- #2Deuteronomy 26:9
And he hath brought us into this place, and hath given us this land, even a land that floweth with milk and honey.
BSBAnd He brought us to this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.
- #3Psalms 34:8
O taste and see that the Lord is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him.
BSBTaste and see that the LORD is good; blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him!
- #4Proverbs 27:7
The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.
BSBThe soul that is full loathes honey, but to a hungry soul, any bitter thing is sweet.
- #5Proverbs 14:13
Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth is heaviness.
BSBEven in laughter the heart may ache, and joy may end in sorrow.
- #6Proverbs 25:16
Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it.
BSBIf you find honey, eat just what you need, lest you have too much and vomit it up.
- #7Colossians 3:2-5
Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory. Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
BSBSet your minds on things above, not on earthly things. For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory. Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry.
- #8Joshua 5:6
For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people that were men of war, which came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they obeyed not the voice of the Lord: unto whom the Lord sware that he would not shew them the land, which the Lord sware unto their fathers that he would give us, a land that floweth with milk and honey.
BSBFor the Israelites had wandered in the wilderness forty years, until all the nation’s men of war who had come out of Egypt had died, since they did not obey the LORD. So the LORD vowed never to let them see the land He had sworn to their fathers to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.
- #9Revelation 12:11
And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.
BSBThey have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony. And they did not love their lives so as to shy away from death.
- #101 John 2:17-19
And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever. Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time. They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.
BSBThe world is passing away, along with its desires; but whoever does the will of God remains forever. Children, it is the last hour; and just as you have heard that the antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have appeared. This is how we know it is the last hour. They went out from us, but they did not belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us. But their departure made it clear that none of them belonged to us.
- #11Ephesians 6:6
Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;
BSBAnd do this not only to please them while they are watching, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from your heart.
Verse rankings: OpenBible.info Topical Bible (CC BY). Scripture: KJV & BSB (public domain).