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 makes it stoop: but a good word makes it glad.

A joyful heart makes a beautiful countenance, but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is abated.

The spirit of man will bear his infirmity, but a broken spirit who can bear?

Go, eat thy bread with joy and drink thy wine with a joyful heart that thy works might be acceptable unto God.

by whom we also have access by faith into this grace in which we stand and glory in hope of the glory of the sons of God.

My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaves to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.

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

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

So that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with too much grief.

For godly sorrow works repentance to salvation, of which there is no need to repented; but the sorrow of the world works death.