Proverbs 12:25
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Proverbs 16:24
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24 Pleasant words are like a honeycomb,
Sweetness to the soul and health to the bones.
Proverbs 15:13
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13 (A)A merry heart makes a cheerful [a]countenance,
But (B)by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.
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- Proverbs 15:13 face
Proverbs 17:22
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- Proverbs 17:22 Or makes medicine even better
Isaiah 50:4
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4 “The(A) Lord God has given Me
The tongue of the learned,
That I should know how to speak
A word in season to him who is (B)weary.
He awakens Me morning by morning,
He awakens My ear
To hear as the learned.
Proverbs 15:23
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Footnotes
- Proverbs 15:23 Lit. in its time
Proverbs 12:18
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18 (A)There is one who speaks like the piercings of a sword,
But the tongue of the wise promotes health.
Proverbs 27:9
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9 Ointment and perfume delight the heart,
And the sweetness of a man’s friend gives delight by [a]hearty counsel.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 27:9 Lit. counsel of the soul
Zechariah 1:13
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13 And the Lord answered the angel who talked to me, with (A)good and comforting words.
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Proverbs 18:14
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14 The spirit of a man will sustain him in sickness,
But who can bear a broken spirit?
Psalm 42:11
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11 (A)Why are you cast down, O my soul?
And why are you disquieted within me?
Hope in God;
For I shall yet praise Him,
The [a]help of my countenance and my God.
Footnotes
- Psalm 42:11 Lit. salvation
Proverbs 15:15
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15 All the days of the afflicted are evil,
(A)But he who is of a merry heart has a continual feast.
2 Corinthians 2:4-7
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4 For out of much [a]affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you, with many tears, (A)not that you should be grieved, but that you might know the love which I have so abundantly for you.
5 But (B)if anyone has caused grief, he has not (C)grieved me, but all of you to some extent—not to be too severe. 6 This punishment which was inflicted (D)by the majority is sufficient for such a man, 7 (E)so that, on the contrary, you ought rather to forgive and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one be swallowed up with too much sorrow.
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- 2 Corinthians 2:4 tribulation
Mark 14:33-34
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33 And He (A)took Peter, James, and John with Him, and He began to be troubled and deeply distressed. 34 Then He said to them, (B)“My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here and watch.”
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Proverbs 25:11
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11 A word fitly (A)spoken is like apples of gold
In settings of silver.
Proverbs 14:10
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10 The heart knows its own bitterness,
And a stranger does not share its joy.
Psalm 38:6
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6 I am [a]troubled, I am bowed down greatly;
I go mourning all the day long.
Footnotes
- Psalm 38:6 Lit. bent down
Nehemiah 2:1-2
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Nehemiah Sent to Judah
2 And it came to pass in the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of (A)King [a]Artaxerxes, when wine was before him, that (B)I took the wine and gave it to the king. Now I had never been sad in his presence before. 2 Therefore the king said to me, “Why is your face sad, since you are not sick? This is nothing but (C)sorrow of heart.”
So I became [b]dreadfully afraid,
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- Nehemiah 2:1 Artaxerxes Longimanus
- Nehemiah 2:2 Lit. very much
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