Proverbs 12:25
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25 Anxiety weighs down the human heart,
but a good word cheers it up.(A)
Proverbs 16:24
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24 Pleasant words are like a honeycomb,
sweetness to the soul and health to the body.
Proverbs 15:13
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13 A glad heart makes a cheerful countenance,
but by sorrow of heart the spirit is broken.(A)
Proverbs 17:22
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22 A cheerful heart is a good medicine,
but a downcast spirit dries up the bones.(A)
Isaiah 50:4
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The Servant’s Humiliation and Vindication
4 The Lord God has given me
a trained tongue,[a]
that I may know how to sustain
the weary with a word.
Morning by morning he wakens,
wakens my ear
to listen as those who are taught.(A)
Footnotes
- 50.4 Cn: Heb of those who are taught
Proverbs 15:23
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23 To make an apt answer is a joy to anyone,
and a word in season, how good it is!(A)
Proverbs 12:18
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18 Rash words are like sword thrusts,
but the tongue of the wise brings healing.(A)
Zechariah 1:13
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13 Then the Lord replied with gracious and comforting words to the angel who spoke with me.(A)
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Proverbs 27:9
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9 Perfume and incense make the heart glad,
but the soul is torn by trouble.[a]
Footnotes
- 27.9 Gk: Heb the sweetness of a friend is better than one’s own counsel
Psalm 42:11
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11 Why are you cast down, O my soul,
and why are you disquieted within me?
Hope in God, for I shall again praise him,
my help and my God.(A)
Proverbs 18:14
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14 The human spirit will endure sickness,
but a broken spirit—who can bear?
Proverbs 25:11
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11 A word fitly spoken
is like apples of gold in a setting of silver.(A)
Proverbs 15:15
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15 All the days of the poor are hard,
but a cheerful heart has a continual feast.
2 Corinthians 2:4-7
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4 For I wrote you out of much distress and anguish of heart and with many tears, not to cause you grief but to let you know the abundant love that I have for you.
Forgiveness for the Offender
5 But if anyone has caused grief, he has caused it not to me but to some extent—not to exaggerate it—to all of you. 6 This punishment by the majority is enough for such a person;(A) 7 so now instead you should forgive and console him, so that he may not be overwhelmed by even worse grief.
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Mark 14:33-34
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33 He took with him Peter and James and John and began to be distressed and agitated. 34 And he said to them, “My soul is deeply grieved, even to death; remain here, and keep awake.”(A)
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Proverbs 14:10
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10 The heart knows its own bitterness,
and no stranger shares its joy.
Psalm 38:6
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6 I am utterly bowed down and prostrate;
all day long I go around mourning.(A)
Nehemiah 2:1-2
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Nehemiah Sent to Judah
2 In the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, when wine was served him, I carried the wine and gave it to the king. Now, I had never been sad in his presence before.(A) 2 So the king said to me, “Why is your face sad, since you are not sick? This can only be sadness of the heart.” Then I was very much afraid.(B)
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