Proverbs 15:13

Proverbs Of Solomon

¹² A scoffer does not like to be reproved. He will not go to the wise. ¹³ A glad heart makes a cheerful countenance, but by sorrow of heart the spirit is broken. ¹⁴ The heart of him who has understanding seeks knowledge, but the mouth of fools feeds on folly.

Sorrow of Heart

Proverbs 17:22

A cheerful heart is a good medicine, but a broken spirit dries up the bones.

Proverbs 12:25

Heaviness in the heart of a man makes it droop, but a good word makes it glad.

Proverbs 18:14

The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity, but a broken spirit who can bear?

Proverbs 15:15

All the days of the afflicted are evil, but he who is of a cheerful heart [has] a continual feast.

Nehemiah 2:2

And the king said to me, Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou are not sick? This is nothing else but sorrow of heart. Then I was very much afraid.

John 14:1

Let not your heart be troubled. Ye believe in God, believe also in me.

2 Corinthians 1:12

For our pride is this (the testimony from our conscience), that we behave in the world in the simplicity and purity of God, not by fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, and especially toward you.

2 Corinthians 2:7

so that instead, for you rather to forgive and encourage, lest perhaps such a man would be swallowed up with too much sorrow.

2 Corinthians 7:10

For sorrow toward God works repentance for salvation without regret, but the sorrow of the world works death.