Proverbs 12:25
Anxiety in a man's heart weighs him down, but a good word makes him glad.
Proverbs 15:13
A glad heart makes a cheerful face, but by sorrow of heart the spirit is crushed.
Proverbs 15:23
To make an apt answer is a joy to a man, and a word in season, how good it is!
Isaiah 50:4
The Lord GOD has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with a word him who is weary. Morning by morning he awakens; he awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.
Proverbs 16:24
Gracious words are like a honeycomb, sweetness to the soul and health to the body.
Proverbs 17:22
A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
Nehemiah 2:1-2
In the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, when wine was before him, I took up the wine and gave it to the king. Now I had not been sad in his presence.
Psalm 38:6
I am utterly bowed down and prostrate; all the day I go about mourning.
Psalm 42:11
Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation and my God.
Proverbs 12:18
There is one whose rash words are like sword thrusts, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.
Proverbs 14:10
The heart knows its own bitterness, and no stranger shares its joy.
Proverbs 15:15
All the days of the afflicted are evil, but the cheerful of heart has a continual feast.
Proverbs 18:14
A man's spirit will endure sickness, but a crushed spirit who can bear?
Proverbs 25:11
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in a setting of silver.
Proverbs 27:9
Oil and perfume make the heart glad, and the sweetness of a friend comes from his earnest counsel.
Zechariah 1:13
And the LORD answered gracious and comforting words to the angel who talked with me.
Mark 14:33-34
And he took with him Peter and James and John, and began to be greatly distressed and troubled.
2 Corinthians 2:4-7
For I wrote to you out of much affliction and anguish of heart and with many tears, not to cause you pain but to let you know the abundant love that I have for you.