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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  1. Proverbs 15:13 face

22 A (A)merry heart [a]does good, like medicine,
But a broken spirit dries the bones.

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  1. Proverbs 17:22 Or makes medicine even better

The Way, the Truth, and the Life

14 “Let (A)not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me.

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14 The spirit of a man will sustain him in sickness,
But who can bear a broken spirit?

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25 (A)Anxiety in the heart of man causes depression,
But (B)a good word makes it glad.

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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.

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10 For (A)godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, not to be regretted; (B)but the sorrow of the world produces death.

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(A)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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Paul’s Sincerity

12 For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience that we conducted ourselves in the world in [a]simplicity and (A)godly sincerity, (B)not with fleshly wisdom but by the grace of God, and more abundantly toward you.

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  1. 2 Corinthians 1:12 The opposite of duplicity

Therefore the king said to me, “Why is your face sad, since you are not sick? This is nothing but (A)sorrow of heart.”

So I became [a]dreadfully afraid,

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  1. Nehemiah 2:2 Lit. very much

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