Proverbs 17:22

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

Anxiety in a man's heart weighs it down, but a kind word makes it glad.

A glad heart makes a cheerful face; but an aching heart breaks the spirit.

A man's spirit will sustain him in sickness, but a crushed spirit, who can bear?

Go your way -- eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God has already accepted your works.

through whom we also have our access by faith into this grace in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

My strength is dried up like a potsherd. My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You have brought me into the dust of death.

When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.

For my days consume away like smoke. My bones are burned as a torch.

so that on the contrary you should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his excessive sorrow.

For godly sorrow works repentance to salvation, which brings no regret. But the sorrow of the world works death.