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.