Proverbs 12:25
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25 Anxiety weighs down the heart,(A)
but a kind word cheers it up.
Proverbs 16:24
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Proverbs 15:13
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Proverbs 17:22
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Isaiah 50:4
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Proverbs 15:23
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Proverbs 12:18
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Zechariah 1:13
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Proverbs 27:9
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9 Perfume(A) and incense bring joy to the heart,
and the pleasantness of a friend
springs from their heartfelt advice.
Psalm 42:11
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11 Why, my soul, are you downcast?
Why so disturbed within me?
Put your hope in God,
for I will yet praise him,
my Savior and my God.(A)
Proverbs 18:14
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14 The human spirit can endure in sickness,
but a crushed spirit who can bear?(A)
Proverbs 25:11
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Footnotes
- Proverbs 25:11 Or possibly apricots
Proverbs 15:15
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15 All the days of the oppressed are wretched,
but the cheerful heart has a continual feast.(A)
2 Corinthians 2:4-7
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4 For I wrote you(A) out of great distress and anguish of heart and with many tears, not to grieve you but to let you know the depth of my love for you.
Forgiveness for the Offender
5 If anyone has caused grief,(B) he has not so much grieved me as he has grieved all of you to some extent—not to put it too severely. 6 The punishment(C) inflicted on him by the majority is sufficient. 7 Now instead, you ought to forgive and comfort him,(D) so that he will not be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow.
Mark 14:33-34
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33 He took Peter, James and John(A) along with him, and he began to be deeply distressed and troubled. 34 “My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death,”(B) he said to them. “Stay here and keep watch.”
Proverbs 14:10
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10 Each heart knows its own bitterness,
and no one else can share its joy.
Psalm 38:6
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Nehemiah 2:1-2
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Artaxerxes Sends Nehemiah to Jerusalem
2 In the month of Nisan in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes,(A) when wine was brought for him, I took the wine and gave it to the king. I had not been sad in his presence before, 2 so the king asked me, “Why does your face look so sad when you are not ill? This can be nothing but sadness of heart.”
I was very much afraid,
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