Proverbs 12:25
Anxiety in the heart of man make it heavy, but a good word makes it glad.
Proverbs 15:13
A merry heart makes a cheerful countenance. The spirit is broken by sorrow of the heart.
Proverbs 15:23
A man has joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken at the right time, how good it is!
Isaiah 50:4
The Lord Jehovah will teach me what to say, so I will know how to encourage tired people. Morning after morning he will wake me to listen like a student.
Proverbs 16:24
Pleasant words are as a honeycomb, sweetness to life, and health to the bones.
Proverbs 17:22
A merry heart is good medicine but a broken spirit dries up the bones.
Nehemiah 2:1-2
In the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, when wine was before him. I served the wine to the king. Never before had I been sad when the king was present.
Psalm 38:6
I am bent over and bowed down very low. All day I walk around in sadness.
Psalm 42:11
Why am I in despair? Why have I become disturbed within me? Wait for God for I shall yet praise him, the help of my countenance and my God.
Proverbs 12:18
There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword. The tongue of the wise brings a cure.
Proverbs 14:10
The heart knows its own bitterness; and no one else can share its joy.
Proverbs 15:15
All the days of the afflicted are evil. He who has a merry heart has a continual feast.
Proverbs 18:14
The spirit of a man will sustain him in sickness. So who can tolerate a wounded spirit?
Proverbs 25:11
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.
Proverbs 27:9
As oil and perfume delight the heart so the sweetness of a man's friend delights his heart.
Zechariah 1:13
Jehovah replied to the angel that talked with me with gracious and comforting words.
Mark 14:33-34
He took Peter, James and John with him. He was very distressed and troubled.
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 more abundantly for you.