Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

All the days of the afflicted are evil: but he that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast.

Bible References

All

Genesis 37:35
And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted, and said, For I will go down to my son into Sheol mourning. Thus his father wept for him.
Genesis 47:9
And Jacob said to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my sojourning are a hundred and thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they do not attain to the days of the years of the life of my fathers, in the days of their sojourning.
Psalm 90:7
For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy fury are we troubled.

But

Proverbs 16:22
Wisdom is a fountain of life for him that hath it; but the instruction of fools is folly.
Proverbs 17:22
A joyful heart promoteth healing; but a broken spirit drieth up the bones.
Acts 16:25
And at midnight Paul and Silas, in praying, were praising God with singing, and the prisoners listened to them.
Romans 5:2
by whom we have also access by faith into this favour in which we stand, and we boast in hope of the glory of God.
Romans 12:12
As regards hope, rejoicing: as regards tribulation, enduring: as regards prayer, persevering:
2 Corinthians 1:5
Because, even as the sufferings of the Christ abound towards us, so through the Christ does our encouragement also abound.
2 Corinthians 6:10
as grieved, but always rejoicing; as poor, but enriching many; as having nothing, and possessing all things.
1 Peter 1:6
Wherein ye exult, for a little while at present, if needed, put to grief by various trials,
1 Peter 4:13
but as ye have share in the sufferings of Christ, rejoice, that in the revelation of his glory also ye may rejoice with exultation.