Proverbs 17:22

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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