Proverbs 17:22

A joyful heart promoteth healing; but a broken spirit drieth up the bones.

Proverbs 15:13

A joyful heart maketh a cheerful countenance; but by sorrow of heart the spirit is broken.

Proverbs 12:25

Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop; but a good word maketh it glad.

Psalm 22:15

My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue cleaveth to my palate; and thou hast laid me in the dust of death.

Proverbs 18:14

The spirit of a man sustaineth his infirmity; but a broken spirit who can bear?

2 Corinthians 7:10

For grief according to God works repentance to salvation, never to be regretted; but the grief of the world works death.

Psalm 32:3-4

When I kept silence, my bones waxed old, through my groaning all the day long.

Psalm 102:3-5

For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as a firebrand.

Ecclesiastes 9:7-9

Go, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God hath already accepted thy works.

Romans 5:2-5

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.

2 Corinthians 2:7

so that on the contrary ye should rather shew grace and encourage, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with excessive grief.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.

Bible References

Merry

Proverbs 12:25
Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop; but a good word maketh it glad.
Proverbs 15:13
A joyful heart maketh a cheerful countenance; but by sorrow of heart the spirit is broken.
Proverbs 18:14
The spirit of a man sustaineth his infirmity; but a broken spirit who can bear?
Ecclesiastes 9:7
Go, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God hath already accepted thy works.
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.

A broken

Psalm 22:15
My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue cleaveth to my palate; and thou hast laid me in the dust of death.
Psalm 32:3
When I kept silence, my bones waxed old, through my groaning all the day long.
Psalm 102:3
For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as a firebrand.
2 Corinthians 2:7
so that on the contrary ye should rather shew grace and encourage, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with excessive grief.
2 Corinthians 7:10
For grief according to God works repentance to salvation, never to be regretted; but the grief of the world works death.