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
Anxiety in the heart of man make it heavy, but a good word makes it glad.
Proverbs 15:13
A merry heart makes a cheerful countenance. The spirit is broken by sorrow of the heart.
Proverbs 18:14
The spirit of a man will sustain him in sickness. So who can tolerate a wounded spirit?
Ecclesiastes 9:7
Go your way, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart for God now accepts your works.
Romans 5:2
We have access to grace (God's favor) by faith through him. This is where we stand. We rejoice in the hope of the glory of God.
A broken
Psalm 22:15
My power is dried up like pieces of broken pottery. My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You lay me down in the dust of death.
Psalm 32:3
When I kept silent about my sins, my body wasted away and I groaned all day long.
Psalm 102:3
My days have been consumed in smoke, and my bones have been scorched like a hearth.
2 Corinthians 2:7
To the contrary you should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his excess sorrow.
2 Corinthians 7:10
For godly sorrow works repentance leading to salvation. This is a repentance that brings no regret: but the sorrow of the world works death.