Proverbs 15:13

A Conservative Version

A glad heart makes a cheerful countenance, but by sorrow of heart the spirit is broken.

Cross References

Proverbs 17:22

A cheerful heart is a good medicine, but a broken spirit dries up the bones.

John 14:1

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

Proverbs 18:14

The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity, but a broken spirit who can bear?

Proverbs 12:25

Heaviness in the heart of a man makes it droop, but a good word makes it glad.

Proverbs 15:15

All the days of the afflicted are evil, but he who is of a cheerful heart [has] a continual feast.

2 Corinthians 7:10

For sorrow toward God works repentance for salvation without regret, but the sorrow of the world works death.

2 Corinthians 2:7

so that instead, for you rather to forgive and encourage, lest perhaps such a man would be swallowed up with too much sorrow.

2 Corinthians 1:12

For our pride is this (the testimony from our conscience), that we behave in the world in the simplicity and purity of God, not by fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, and especially toward you.

Nehemiah 2:2

And the king said to me, Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou are not sick? This is nothing else but sorrow of heart. Then I was very much afraid.

Proverbs 14:30

A tranquil heart is the life of the flesh, but envy is the rottenness of the bones.