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 our glorying is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.
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John 14:1
"Let not your heart be troubled: believe in God, believe also in Me.
2 Corinthians 2:7
so that, on the contrary, ye ought rather to forgive and console him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his excessive sorrow.
2 Corinthians 7:10
For godly sorrow works repentance unto salvation, not to be repented of; but the sorrow of the world works death.