Proverbs 17:22
"A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones."
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- Proverbs 15:13
"A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken."
Read in chapter → - Proverbs 12:25
"Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad."
Read in chapter → - Proverbs 18:14
"The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?"
Read in chapter → - 2 Corinthians 7:10
"For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death."
Read in chapter → - Ecclesiastes 9:7
"Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works."
Read in chapter → - Romans 5:2
"By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God."
Read in chapter → - 2 Corinthians 2:7
"So that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow."
Read in chapter → - Psalms 102:3
"For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth."
Read in chapter → - Psalms 32:3
"When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long."
Read in chapter → - Psalms 22:15
"My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death."
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