Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.
Bible References
Merry
Proverbs 15:15
All the days of the troubled are evil; but he whose heart is glad has an unending feast.
Proverbs 17:22
A glad heart makes a healthy body, but a crushed spirit makes the bones dry.
2 Corinthians 1:12
For our glory is in this, in the knowledge which we have that our way of life in the world, and most of all in relation to you, has been holy and true in the eyes of God; not in the wisdom of the flesh, but in the grace of God.
By
Proverbs 12:25
Care in the heart of a man makes it weighted down, but a good word makes it glad.
Proverbs 18:14
The spirit of a man will be his support when he is ill; but how may a broken spirit be lifted up?
Nehemiah 2:2
And the king said to me, Why is your face sad, seeing that you are not ill? this is nothing but sorrow of heart. Then I was full of fear;
John 14:1
Let not your heart be troubled: have faith in God and have faith in me.
2 Corinthians 2:7
So that now, on the other hand, it is right for him to have forgiveness and comfort from you, for fear that his sorrow may be over-great.
2 Corinthians 7:10
For the sorrow which God gives is the cause of salvation through a change of heart, in which there is no reason for grief: but the sorrow of the world is a cause of death.