A merry heart is a good medicine: But a broken spirit drieth up the bones.
A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: But a broken spirit drieth the bones.
A happy heart is good medicine and a cheerful mind works healing, but a broken spirit dries up the bones. [Prov. 12:25; 15:13, 15.]
A cheerful heart is a good medicine; But a broken spirit drieth up the bones.
A joyful heart helps healing, but a broken spirit dries up the bones.
A joyful soul makes a lifetime flourish. A gloomy spirit dries out the bones.
A joyful mind maketh age flourishing: a sorrowful spirit drieth up the bones.
My Strength is dried up like a potsherd; And my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; And thou hast brought me into the dust of death.
Heaviness in the heart of a man maketh it stoop; But a good word maketh it glad.
A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: But by sorrow of heart the spirit is broken.
Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, Sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; But a broken spirit who can bear?
I said of laughter, It is mad: and of mirth, What doeth it?
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.
For godly sorrow worketh repentance unto salvation, a repentance which bringeth no regret: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.