Proverbs 17:22
A cheerful heart is a good medicine, but a broken spirit dries up the bones.
Proverbs 15:13
A glad heart makes a cheerful countenance, but by sorrow of heart the spirit is broken.
Proverbs 12:25
Heaviness in the heart of a man makes it droop, but a good word makes it glad.
Psalm 22:15
My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue clings to my jaws, and thou have brought me into the dust of death.
Proverbs 18:14
The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity, but a broken spirit who can bear?
2 Corinthians 7:10
For sorrow toward God works repentance for salvation without regret, but the sorrow of the world works death.
Psalm 32:3-4
When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all the day long.
Psalm 102:3-5
For my days consume away like smoke, and my bones are burned as a firebrand.
Ecclesiastes 9:7-9
Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart, for God has already accepted thy works.
Romans 5:2-5
through whom also we have access by faith for this grace in which we stand, and we take pride in hope of the glory of God.
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.