Proverbs 12:25 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

²⁵ Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁵ Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: But a good word maketh it glad.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁵ Anxiety in a man's heart weighs it down, but an encouraging word makes it glad. [Ps. 50:4; Prov. 15:13.]

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁵ Heaviness in the heart of a man maketh it stoop; But a good word maketh it glad.

Common English Bible

²⁵ Anxiety leads to depression, but a good word encourages.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁵ Grief in the heart of a man humbles him. And with a good word he shall be made glad.

Proverbs 12:25 Cross References

Proverbs 16:24

Pleasant words are as a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

Proverbs 15:13

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

Proverbs 17:22

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

Isaiah 50:4

The Lord God hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned.

Proverbs 15:23

A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in due season, how good is it!

Zechariah 1:13

And the Lord answered the angel that talked with me with good words and comfortable words.

Proverbs 12:18

There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.

Proverbs 27:9

Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so doth the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel.

Psalm 42:11

Why art thou cast down, O my soul? And why art thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

Proverbs 18:14

The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?

Proverbs 25:11

A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.

Psalm 38:6

I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.

Proverbs 15:15

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

Proverbs 14:10

The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy.

Proverbs 12:26

The righteous is more excellent than his neighbor: but the way of the wicked seduceth them.

Proverbs 15:30

The light of the eyes rejoiceth the heart: and a good report maketh the bones fat.