Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
Bible References
Merry
Proverbs 12:25
Heaviness in the heart of man makes it stoop, but a good word makes it glad.
Proverbs 15:13
A merry heart makes a cheerful face, but by sorrow of heart the spirit is broken.
Proverbs 18:14
The spirit of a man will nourish his sickness, but a wounded spirit who can bear?
Ecclesiastes 9:7
Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God now is pleased with your works.
Romans 5:2
Through Him we also have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice on the hope of the glory of God.
A broken
Psalm 22:15
My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and My tongue clings to My jaws;
Psalm 32:3
When I kept silence, my bones became old through my roaring all the day long.
Psalm 102:3
For my days go up like smoke, and my bones glow like a firebrand.
2 Corinthians 2:7
so that, on the contrary, you should rather forgive and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overwhelming sorrow.
2 Corinthians 7:10
For the grief according to God works repentance to salvation, not to be regretted, but the grief of the world works out death.