Proverbs 12:25

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Summary

Proverbs 12:25

Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad.

Heaviness

But

Bible References

Heaviness

The heart knoweth its own bitterness; And a stranger doth not intermeddle with its joy.

A glad heart maketh a cheerful countenance; But by sorrow of heart the spirit is broken.

A cheerful heart is a good medicine; But a broken spirit drieth up the bones.

The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; But a broken spirit who can bear?

And it came to pass 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 unto the king. Now I had not been beforetime'sad in his presence.

I am pained and bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.

Why art thou cast down, O my soul? And why art thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God; for I shall yet praise him, Who is the help of my countenance, and my God.

And he taketh with him Peter and James and John, and began to be greatly amazed, and sore troubled.

But

There is that speaketh rashly like the piercings of a sword; But the tongue of the wise is health.

A man hath joy in the answer of his mouth; And a word in due season, how good is it!

Pleasant words are as a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

A word fitly spoken Is like apples of gold in network of silver.

Oil and perfume rejoice the heart; So doth the sweetness of a man's friend that cometh of hearty counsel.

The Lord Jehovah hath given me the tongue of them that are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as they that are taught.

And Jehovah answered the angel that talked with me with good words, even comfortable words.

For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be made sorry, but that ye might know the love that I have more abundantly unto you.