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 he said, For I will go down into the grave unto my son mourning. Thus his father wept for him.
Genesis 47:9
And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are one hundred and thirty years; few and evil have the days of the years of my life been and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
Psalm 90:7
For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath we are troubled.

But

Proverbs 16:22
Understanding is a wellspring of life unto him that has it, but the instruction of fools is folly.
Proverbs 17:22
A joyful heart shall do good like a medicine, but a broken spirit dries the bones.
Acts 16:25
But at midnight as Paul and Silas prayed and sang praises unto God, and the prisoners heard them,
Romans 5:2
by whom we also have access by faith into this grace in which we stand and glory in hope of the glory of the sons of God.
Romans 12:12
rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation, constant in prayer,
2 Corinthians 1:5
For in the same manner that the sufferings of the Christ abound in us, so also our consolation abounds by Christ.
2 Corinthians 6:10
as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
1 Peter 1:6
In which ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are afflicted in diverse temptations,
1 Peter 4:13
but rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of the afflictions of the Christ, so that also in the revelation of his glory, ye may rejoice in triumph.