Proverbs 12:25
Anxiety in a man's heart weighs it down, but a kind word makes it glad.
Proverbs 15:13
A glad heart makes a cheerful face; but an aching heart breaks the spirit.
Proverbs 15:23
Joy comes to a man with the reply of his mouth. How good is a word at the right time.
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: he wakens morning by morning, he wakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.
Proverbs 16:24
Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
Proverbs 17:22
A cheerful heart makes good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
Nehemiah 2:1-2
It happened in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, when wine was before him, that I took up the wine, and gave it to the king. Now I had not been sad before in his presence.
Psalm 38:6
I am pained and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all day long.
Psalm 42:11
Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God. For I shall still praise him, the saving help of my countenance, and my God.
Proverbs 12:18
There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.
Proverbs 14:10
The heart knows its own bitterness and joy; he will not share these with a stranger.
Proverbs 15:15
All the days of the afflicted are wretched, but one who has a cheerful heart enjoys a continual feast.
Proverbs 18:14
A man's spirit will sustain him in sickness, but a crushed spirit, who can bear?
Proverbs 25:11
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.
Proverbs 27:9
Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart; so does earnest counsel from a man's friend.
Zechariah 1:13
The LORD answered the angel who talked with me with kind and comforting words.
Mark 14:33-34
He took with him Peter, James, and John, and began to be greatly troubled and distressed.
2 Corinthians 2:4-7
For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not that you should be made sorry, but that you might know the love that I have so abundantly for you.