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
So the king said to me, "Why is your face sad since you are not sick? This is nothing but sadness of the heart." And I was very much afraid.
Isaiah 53:3
[He was] despised and rejected [by] men, a man of suffering, and acquainted with sickness, and like {one from whom others hide their faces}, [he was] despised, and we did not hold him in high regard.
Matthew 8:14
And [when] Jesus came into Peter's house, he saw his mother-in-law lying down and suffering with a fever.
Mark 5:38
And they came to the house of the ruler of the synagogue and saw a commotion, and [people] weeping and wailing loudly.
Luke 7:12
And as he approached the gate of the town, behold, a man who had died was being carried out, his mother's only son, and she was a widow. And a large crowd from the town was with her.
John 11:31
So the Jews who were with her in the house and were consoling her, [when they] saw Mary--that she stood up quickly and went out--followed her, [because they] thought that she was going to the tomb in order to weep there.
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Jeremiah 16:8
And you shall not enter [the] house of [the] banquet, to sit with them, to eat and drink."