Proverbs 17:22

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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