Proverbs 15:15 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹⁵ All the days of the afflicted are evil: But he that is of a cheerful heart hath a continual feast.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁵ All the days of the afflicted are evil: But he that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁵ All the days of the desponding and afflicted are made evil [by anxious thoughts and forebodings], but he who has a glad heart has a continual feast [regardless of circumstances].

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁵ All the days of the afflicted are evil; But he that is of a cheerful heart hath a continual feast.

Common English Bible

¹⁵ All the days of the needy are hard, but a happy heart has a continual feast.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁵ All the days of the poor are evil. A secure mind is like a continual feast.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁵ All the days of the poor are evil: a secure mind is like a continual feast.

Proverbs 15:15 Cross References

Genesis 37:35

And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said, For I will go down to the grave to my son mourning. And his father wept for him.

Genesis 47:9

And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.

Proverbs 15:13

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

Proverbs 15:14

The heart of him that hath understanding seeketh knowledge: But the mouth of fools feedeth on folly.

Proverbs 15:16

Better is little with the fear of the LORD, Than great treasure and trouble therewith.

Proverbs 16:22

Understanding is a wellspring of life unto him that hath it: But the correction of fools is their folly.

Proverbs 17:22

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

Acts 16:25

But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns unto God, and the prisoners were listening to them;

Romans 12:12

rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing stedfastly in prayer;

Romans 5:11

and not only so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.

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 1:5

For as the sufferings of Christ abound unto us, even so our comfort also aboundeth through Christ.

2 Corinthians 6:10

as sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.

1 Peter 4:13

but insomuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings, rejoice; that at the revelation of his glory also ye may rejoice with exceeding joy.