Proverbs 17:22

Proverbs Of Solomon

²¹ He who begets a fool [it is] to his sorrow, and the father of a fool has no joy. ²² A cheerful heart is a good medicine, but a broken spirit dries up the bones. ²³ A wicked man receives a bribe out of the bosom, to pervert the ways of justice.

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Proverbs 15:13

A glad heart makes a cheerful countenance, but by sorrow of heart the spirit is broken.

Proverbs 12:25

Heaviness in the heart of a man makes it droop, but a good word makes it glad.

Psalm 22:15

My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue clings to my jaws, and thou have brought me into the dust of death.

Proverbs 18:14

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

2 Corinthians 7:10

For sorrow toward God works repentance for salvation without regret, but the sorrow of the world works death.

Psalm 32:3-4

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

Psalm 102:3-5

For my days consume away like smoke, and my bones are burned as a firebrand.

Ecclesiastes 9:7-9

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

Romans 5:2-5

through whom also we have access by faith for this grace in which we stand, and we take pride in hope of the glory of God.

2 Corinthians 2:7

so that instead, for you rather to forgive and encourage, lest perhaps such a man would be swallowed up with too much sorrow.