Proverbs 17:22

A Conservative Version

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

Cross References

Proverbs 15:13

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

Proverbs 12:25

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

Proverbs 18:14

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

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.

Psalm 22:15

My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue clings to my jaws, and thou have brought me into the dust of death.

Proverbs 16:24

Pleasant words are a honeycomb: Sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

Ecclesiastes 2:2

I said of laughter, It is mad, and of mirth, What does it do?