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 console him but he refused to be consoled, and said - Surely I will go down unto my son mourning to hades! And his father wept for him.
Genesis 47:9
And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my sojournings, have been a hundred and thirty years, - Few and evil, have been the days of the years of my life, neither have they attained unto the days of the years of the lives of my fathers, in the days of their sojournings.
Psalm 90:7
For we are consumed in thine anger, And, in thy wrath, are we dismayed;

But

Proverbs 16:22
A well-spring of life, is discretion to its owner, but, the correction of the foolish, is folly.
Proverbs 17:22
A joyful heart, worketh an excellent cure, - but, a stricken spirit, drieth up the bone.
Acts 16:25
And, at midnight, Paul and Silas, being at prayer, began singing praise unto God; and the prisoners unto them, did hearken.
Romans 5:2
Through whom also we have had, our introduction, by our faithinto this favour wherein we stand; and let us boast in hope of the glory of God.
Romans 12:12
In hope, rejoicing, in tribulation, enduring, in prayer, persevering,
2 Corinthians 1:5
Because, even as the sufferings of the Christ overflow unto us, so, through the Christ, overfloweth, our encouragement also.
2 Corinthians 6:10
as grieving, yet, ever, rejoicing, as destitute, yet making, many, rich, as holding, nothing, and yet firmly holding, all things.
1 Peter 1:6
Wherein ye exult, though, for a little, just now, if needful, put to grief in manifold temptations,
1 Peter 4:13
But, in so far as ye are taking fellowship in the Christ's sufferings, rejoice! in order that, in the revealing of his glory also, ye may rejoice with exultation: