Proverbs 15:13 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: But by sorrow of heart the spirit is broken.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: But by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

A glad heart makes a cheerful countenance, but by sorrow of heart the spirit is broken. [Prov. 17:22.]

American Standard Version (1901)

A glad heart maketh a cheerful countenance; But by sorrow of heart the spirit is broken.

Common English Bible

A joyful heart brightens one’s face, but a troubled heart breaks the spirit.

Catholic Public Domain Version

A rejoicing heart gladdens the face. But by the grief of the soul, the spirit is cast down.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

A glad heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by grief of mind the spirit is cast down.

Proverbs 15:13 Cross References

Nehemiah 2:2

And the king said unto me, Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou art not sick? this is nothing else but sorrow of heart. Then I was very sore afraid.

Proverbs 12:25

Heaviness in the heart of a man maketh it stoop; But a good word maketh it glad.

Proverbs 14:30

A sound heart is the life of the flesh: But envy is the rottenness of the bones.

Proverbs 15:15

All the days of the afflicted are evil: But he that is of a cheerful heart hath a continual feast.

Proverbs 17:22

A merry heart is a good medicine: But a broken spirit drieth up the bones.

Proverbs 18:14

The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; But a broken spirit who can bear?

John 14:1

Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.

2 Corinthians 1:12

For our glorying is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.

2 Corinthians 2:7

so that contrariwise ye should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his overmuch sorrow.

2 Corinthians 7:10

For godly sorrow worketh repentance unto salvation, a repentance which bringeth no regret: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.