Proverbs 15:15

New American Bible - revised edition

All the days of the poor are evil, but a good heart is a continual feast.

Cross References

Genesis 37:35

Though his sons and daughters tried to console him, he refused all consolation, saying, “No, I will go down mourning to my son in Sheol.” Thus did his father weep for him.

Genesis 47:9

Jacob replied: “The years I have lived as a wayfarer amount to a hundred and thirty. Few and hard have been these years of my life, and they do not compare with the years that my ancestors lived as wayfarers.”

Proverbs 15:13

A glad heart lights up the face, but an anguished heart breaks the spirit.

Proverbs 15:14

The discerning heart seeks knowledge, but the mouth of fools feeds on folly.

Proverbs 15:16

Better a little with fear of the Lord than a great fortune with anxiety.

Proverbs 16:22

Good sense is a fountain of life to those who have it, but folly is the training of fools.

Proverbs 17:22

A joyful heart is the health of the body, but a depressed spirit dries up the bones.

Acts 16:25

About midnight, while Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God as the prisoners listened,

Romans 12:12

Rejoice in hope, endure in affliction, persevere in prayer.

Romans 5:11

Not only that, but we also boast of God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation. Humanity’s Sin Through Adam.

2 Corinthians 1:12

For our boast is this, the testimony of our conscience that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially toward you, with the simplicity and sincerity of God, [and] not by human wisdom but by the grace of God.

2 Corinthians 1:5

For as Christ’s sufferings overflow to us, so through Christ does our encouragement also overflow.

2 Corinthians 6:10

as sorrowful yet always rejoicing; as poor yet enriching many; as having nothing and yet possessing all things.

1 Peter 4:13

But rejoice to the extent that you share in the sufferings of Christ, so that when his glory is revealed you may also rejoice exultantly.