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


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Proverbs 15 13 A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.
Proverbs 14 30 A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of 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.
Proverbs 15 15 All the days of the afflicted are evil: but he that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast.
Proverbs 18 14 The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?
Psalms 34 18 The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.
James 4 9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
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 12 18 There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
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.
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.
Proverbs 3 8 It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.
Proverbs 17 20 He that hath a froward heart findeth no good: and he that hath a perverse tongue falleth into mischief.
Psalms 51 8 Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.
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.
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.
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.
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 6 2 Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I am weak: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are vexed.
Psalms 55 4 My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are fallen upon me.
Proverbs 12 25 Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad.
Isaiah 24 9 They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it.
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.
Exodus 22 23 If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry;
Psalms 38 8 I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
Proverbs 14 13 Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth is heaviness.
Psalms 143 4 Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.
Proverbs 28 14 Happy is the man that feareth alway: but he that hardeneth his heart shall fall into mischief.
Lamentations 5 15 The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
Song of Solomon 7 2 Thy navel is like a round goblet, which wanteth not liquor: thy belly is like an heap of wheat set about with lilies.
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:
Psalms 102 3 For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.
Psalms 109 22 For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
Proverbs 26 23 Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a potsherd covered with silver dross.
Proverbs 22 5 Thorns and snares are in the way of the froward: he that doth keep his soul shall be far from them.
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.
Ecclesiastes 1 18 For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
Psalms 77 2 In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted.
Song of Solomon 8 6 Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.
Hosea 4 11 Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.
Psalms 101 4 A froward heart shall depart from me: I will not know a wicked person.
Psalms 40 12 For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me.
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.
Matthew 5 4 Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.
Acts 28 27 For the heart of this people is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes have they closed; lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.
Proverbs 11 17 The merciful man doeth good to his own soul: but he that is cruel troubleth his own flesh.
Ecclesiastes 7 22 For oftentimes also thine own heart knoweth that thou thyself likewise hast cursed others.
Ecclesiastes 7 7 Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad; and a gift destroyeth the heart.