Proverbs 17:22

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

A person's anxiety weighs down his heart, but an appropriate word is encouraging.

A happy heart enlightens the face, but a sad heart reflects a broken spirit.

A man's spirit can sustain him during his illness, but who can bear a crushed spirit?

Go ahead and enjoy your meals as you eat. Drink your wine with a joyful attitude, because God already has approved your actions.

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.

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.

When I kept silent about my sin, my body wasted away by my groaning all day long.

For my days are vanishing like smoke; my bones are charred as in a fireplace.

So forgive and comfort him, or else he will drown in his excessive grief.

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.