Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.
Merry
Bible References
Merry
2 Corinthians 1:12
For this is my proud boast, the testimony of my conscience, that it was in holiness and with pure motives before God, not in worldly wisdom, but in the grace of God, that I have conducted myself in the world, and above all in my relations with you.
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John 14:1
"Let not your hearts be troubled. You trust in God, trust in me also.
2 Corinthians 2:7
so that now you ought rather to forgive and comfort him, lest he should be overwhelmed by the excess of his grief.
2 Corinthians 7:10
For your pain came from God, and so you took no harm from me. For the pain which is from God works repentance leading to salvation, a repentance never to be regretted. But the world's pain works death.