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 knows its own bitterness and joy; he will not share these with a stranger.

A glad heart makes a cheerful face; but an aching heart breaks the spirit.

A cheerful heart makes good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

A man's spirit will sustain him in sickness, but a crushed spirit, who can bear?

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.

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

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.

He took with him Peter, James, and John, and began to be greatly troubled and distressed.

But

There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.

Joy comes to a man with the reply of his mouth. How good is a word at the right time.

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

A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.

Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart; so does earnest counsel from a man's friend.

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.

The LORD answered the angel who talked with me with kind and comforting words.

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.