Proverbs 17:22

A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

Proverbs 15:13

A glad heart makes a cheerful face, but by sorrow of heart the spirit is crushed.

Proverbs 12:25

Anxiety in a man's heart weighs him down, but a good word makes him glad.

Psalm 22:15

my strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to my jaws; you lay me in the dust of death.

Proverbs 18:14

A man's spirit will endure sickness, but a crushed spirit who can bear?

2 Corinthians 7:10

For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, whereas worldly grief produces death.

Psalm 32:3-4

For when I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.

Psalm 102:3-5

For my days pass away like smoke, and my bones burn like a furnace.

Ecclesiastes 9:7-9

Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart, for God has already approved what you do.

Romans 5:2-5

Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

2 Corinthians 2:7

so you should rather turn to forgive and comfort him, or he may be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow.

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
Anxiety in a man's heart weighs him down, but a good word makes him glad.
Proverbs 15:13
A glad heart makes a cheerful face, but by sorrow of heart the spirit is crushed.
Proverbs 18:14
A man's spirit will endure sickness, but a crushed spirit who can bear?
Ecclesiastes 9:7
Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart, for God has already approved what you do.
Romans 5:2
Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

A broken

Psalm 22:15
my strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to my jaws; you lay me in the dust of death.
Psalm 32:3
For when I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.
Psalm 102:3
For my days pass away like smoke, and my bones burn like a furnace.
2 Corinthians 2:7
so you should rather turn to forgive and comfort him, or he may be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow.
2 Corinthians 7:10
For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, whereas worldly grief produces death.

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