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 afflicted are evil: and the good of heart drinking always.
Proverbs 17:22
A joyful heart shall make good healing: and a dejected spirit shall dry up the bones.
2 Corinthians 1:12
For our boasting is this, the testimony of our consciousness, that in simplicity and purity of God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, we turned back in the world, and more eminently to you.
By
Proverbs 12:25
Fear in the heart of a man will bow it down: and a good word will gladden it
Proverbs 18:14
The spirit of man will sustain his disease; and a dejected spirit who shall lift up?
Nehemiah 2:2
And the king will say to me, Wherefore thy face sad, and thou not being, sick? This nothing but sadness of heart. And I shall be very greatly afraid.
John 14:1
Let not your heart be troubled: believe in God, and believe in me.
2 Corinthians 2:7
So that on the contrary ye should rather show kindness, and console, lest perhaps such be swallowed down with more abundant sadness.
2 Corinthians 7:10
For grief according to God works repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but grief of the world works death.