A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.


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Proverbs 17 22 A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
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.
Proverbs 14 10 The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy.
Ecclesiastes 7 3 Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.
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.
Proverbs 14 13 Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth is heaviness.
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.
Lamentations 5 15 The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
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,
Luke 6 45 A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.
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.
Proverbs 17 20 He that hath a froward heart findeth no good: and he that hath a perverse tongue falleth into mischief.
James 4 9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
Matthew 12 35 A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.
Ecclesiastes 1 18 For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
Proverbs 24 17 Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth:
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.
Proverbs 28 14 Happy is the man that feareth alway: but he that hardeneth his heart shall fall into mischief.
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.
Psalms 55 4 My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are fallen upon me.
Psalms 143 4 Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.
Jeremiah 8 18 When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me.
Psalms 126 5 They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.
Job 3 20 Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;
Ecclesiastes 7 7 Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad; and a gift destroyeth the heart.
Proverbs 12 25 Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad.
Jeremiah 17 9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
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.
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.
Ecclesiastes 11 10 Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh: for childhood and youth are vanity.
Proverbs 14 30 A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.
James 3 14 But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
Proverbs 15 15 All the days of the afflicted are evil: but he that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast.
Ezekiel 11 19 And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh:
Exodus 22 23 If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry;
Proverbs 10 28 The hope of the righteous shall be gladness: but the expectation of the wicked shall perish.
Matthew 15 19 For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
Ecclesiastes 7 22 For oftentimes also thine own heart knoweth that thou thyself likewise hast cursed others.
Proverbs 11 17 The merciful man doeth good to his own soul: but he that is cruel troubleth his own flesh.
1 Samuel 2 33 And the man of thine, whom I shall not cut off from mine altar, shall be to consume thine eyes, and to grieve thine heart: and all the increase of thine house shall die in the flower of their age.
Psalms 34 18 The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.
Isaiah 24 9 They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it.
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 36 26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.
Psalms 101 4 A froward heart shall depart from me: I will not know a wicked person.
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;
Ezekiel 16 5 None eye pitied thee, to do any of these unto thee, to have compassion upon thee; but thou wast cast out in the open field, to the lothing of thy person, in the day that thou wast born.
Job 10 1 My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
Psalms 69 20 Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.
Proverbs 15 20 A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother.