Proverbs 17:22

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

Fear in the heart of a man will bow it down: and a good word will gladden it

A heart of joy will do the face good: and by pains of heart the spirit was dejected.

The spirit of man will sustain his disease; and a dejected spirit who shall lift up?

Go eat in joy thy bread, and drink thy wine in a good heart; for already God was satisfied with thy works.

By whom also we have had access by faith into this grace in which we have stood, and we boast upon hope of the glory of God.

My strength was dried up as the potsherd, and my tongue cleaving to my jaws; and thou wilt set me for the dust of death.

If I was silent, my bones fell away in my groaning all the day.

For my days were finished in smoke, and my bones burnt as fuel.

So that on the contrary ye should rather show kindness, and console, lest perhaps such be swallowed down with more abundant sadness.

For grief according to God works repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but grief of the world works death.