Proverbs 17:22
A cheerful heart makes good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
Proverbs 15:13
A glad heart makes a cheerful face; but an aching heart breaks the spirit.
Proverbs 12:25
Anxiety in a man's heart weighs it down, but a kind word makes it glad.
Psalm 22:15
My strength is dried up like a potsherd. My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You have brought me into the dust of death.
Proverbs 18:14
A man's spirit will sustain him in sickness, but a crushed spirit, who can bear?
2 Corinthians 7:10
For godly sorrow works repentance to salvation, which brings no 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 day long.
Psalm 102:3-5
For my days consume away like smoke. My bones are burned as a firebrand.
Ecclesiastes 9:7-9
Go your way?eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God has already accepted your works.
Romans 5:2-5
through whom we also have our access by faith into this grace in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
2 Corinthians 2:7
so that on the contrary you should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his excessive sorrow.