Proverbs 13:12

Lighthouse Bible 2006

Hope deferred makes the heart sick: but when the desire comes, it is a tree of life.

Cross References

Genesis 46:30

And Israel said to Joseph, Now let me die, since I have seen your face, because you are yet alive.

Nehemiah 2:2

Therefore the king said to me, Why is your countenance sad, seeing you are not sick? this is nothing else but sorrow of heart. Then I was very much afraid,

Psalm 143:7

Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit fails: do not hide your face from me, lest I be like those who go down into the pit.

Psalm 17:15

As for me, I will behold your face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with your likeness.

Psalm 69:3

I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried up: my eyes fail while I wait for my God.

Proverbs 11:30

The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that wins souls is wise.

Proverbs 13:11

Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathers by labor shall increase.

Proverbs 13:13

He who despises the word shall be destroyed: but he who fears the commandment shall be rewarded.

Proverbs 13:19

The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul: but it is an abomination to fools to depart from evil.

Proverbs 3:18

She is a tree of life to those who lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that keeps her.

Song of Solomon 5:8

I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you find my beloved, that you tell him, that I am sick from love.

John 16:22

And you now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no one will take from you.

Revelation 2:7

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches; To him who overcomes will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.

Revelation 22:2

In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bore twelve kinds of fruit, and yielded its fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.