Proverbs 17:22
A joyful heart is good medicine, but a broken spirit drains one's strength.
Proverbs 15:13
A happy heart enlightens the face, but a sad heart reflects a broken spirit.
Proverbs 12:25
A person's anxiety weighs down his heart, but an appropriate word is encouraging.
Psalm 22:15
My strength is dried up like broken pottery; my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth, and you have brought me down to the dust of death.
Proverbs 18:14
A man's spirit can sustain him during his illness, but who can bear a crushed spirit?
2 Corinthians 7:10
For having sorrow in a godly way results in repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regrets. But the sorrow of the world produces death.
Psalm 32:3-4
When I kept silent about my sin, my body wasted away by my groaning all day long.
Psalm 102:3-5
For my days are vanishing like smoke; my bones are charred as in a fireplace.
Ecclesiastes 9:7-9
Go ahead and enjoy your meals as you eat. Drink your wine with a joyful attitude, because God already has approved your actions.
Romans 5:2-5
Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace by which we have been established, and we boast because of our hope in God's glory.
2 Corinthians 2:7
So forgive and comfort him, or else he will drown in his excessive grief.