Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.
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Bible References
Heart
Nehemiah 2:2
the king said unto me, Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou art not sick? This is nothing else but brokenness of heart. Then I was very sore afraid
Isaiah 53:3
He is despised and rejected among men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with weakness; and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
Matthew 8:14
And when Jesus was come into Peter's house, he saw his wife's mother lying in bed and with fever.
Mark 5:38
And they came to the house of the prince of the synagogue and saw the tumult and those that wept and wailed greatly.
Luke 7:12
Now when he came near to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow; and many people from the city were with her.
John 11:31
Then the Jews who were with her in the house and comforted her, when they saw Mary, that she rose up hastily and went out, followed her, saying, She goes unto the grave to weep there.
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Jeremiah 16:8
In the same manner thou shalt not go into the house of feasting, to sit with them to eat and to drink.