Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.


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Proverbs 14 13 Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth is heaviness.
James 4 9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
Proverbs 15 13 A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.
John 16 20 Verily, verily, I say unto you, That ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice: and ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy.
Ecclesiastes 7 4 The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.
Psalms 126 5 They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.
John 16 22 And ye now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you.
Psalms 30 5 For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.
Ecclesiastes 1 18 For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
Proverbs 17 22 A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
Ecclesiastes 2 2 I said of laughter, It is mad: and of mirth, What doeth it?
John 16 21 A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.
Matthew 5 4 Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.
Jeremiah 8 18 When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me.
Ecclesiastes 7 8 Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.
Lamentations 5 15 The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
Proverbs 14 10 The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy.
Nehemiah 2 2 Wherefore the king said unto me, Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou art not sick? this is nothing else but sorrow of heart. Then I was very sore afraid,
Proverbs 28 14 Happy is the man that feareth alway: but he that hardeneth his heart shall fall into mischief.
2 Corinthians 2 4 For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.
2 Timothy 1 4 Greatly desiring to see thee, being mindful of thy tears, that I may be filled with joy;
Isaiah 65 14 Behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but ye shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall howl for vexation of spirit.
Luke 6 25 Woe unto you that are full! for ye shall hunger. Woe unto you that laugh now! for ye shall mourn and weep.
Proverbs 24 17 Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth:
2 Corinthians 7 10 For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.
Luke 6 21 Blessed are ye that hunger now: for ye shall be filled. Blessed are ye that weep now: for ye shall laugh.
Hebrews 12 11 Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.
Psalms 31 10 For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.
Jeremiah 16 7 Neither shall men tear themselves for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead; neither shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother.
Job 3 20 Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;
Revelation 21 4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
Proverbs 12 25 Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad.
Job 6 14 To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.
Job 41 22 In his neck remaineth strength, and sorrow is turned into joy before him.
Jeremiah 10 19 Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous; but I said, Truly this is a grief, and I must bear it.
Job 29 24 If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down.
Ecclesiastes 2 23 For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.
Psalms 22 2 O my God, I cry in the day time, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.
Exodus 22 23 If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry;
John 12 25 He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.
Ecclesiastes 7 14 In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him.
Ecclesiastes 3 4 A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
Proverbs 29 9 If a wise man contendeth with a foolish man, whether he rage or laugh, there is no rest.
Ecclesiastes 7 2 It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.
Ezekiel 24 16 Son of man, behold, I take away from thee the desire of thine eyes with a stroke: yet neither shalt thou mourn nor weep, neither shall thy tears run down.
Ezekiel 24 23 And your tires shall be upon your heads, and your shoes upon your feet: ye shall not mourn nor weep; but ye shall pine away for your iniquities, and mourn one toward another.
Psalms 55 4 My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are fallen upon me.
Psalms 34 18 The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.
Proverbs 10 28 The hope of the righteous shall be gladness: but the expectation of the wicked shall perish.
1 Corinthians 7 30 And they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not;