22 A cheerful heart is good medicine,
    but a crushed(A) spirit dries up the bones.(B)

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22 A cheerful heart is good medicine,
    but a broken spirit saps a person’s strength.

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

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22 A cheerful heart does good like medicine, but a broken spirit makes one sick.

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11 What goes into someone’s mouth does not defile them,(A) but what comes out of their mouth, that is what defiles them.”(B)

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11 It’s not what goes into your mouth that defiles you; you are defiled by the words that come out of your mouth.”

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11 Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.

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11 You aren’t made unholy by eating nonkosher food! It is what you say and think that makes you unclean.”[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 15:11 It is what you say and think that makes you unclean, implied; literally, “What comes out of a man defiles a man.”

21 The tongue has the power of life and death,(A)
    and those who love it will eat its fruit.(B)

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21 The tongue can bring death or life;
    those who love to talk will reap the consequences.

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21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

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21 Those who love to talk will suffer the consequences. Men have died for saying the wrong thing!

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