Proverbs 15:15

New English Translation

All the days of the afflicted are bad, but one with a cheerful heart has a continual feast.

Cross References

Genesis 37:35

All his sons and daughters stood by him to console him, but he refused to be consoled. “No,” he said, “I will go to the grave mourning my son.” So Joseph’s father wept for him.

Genesis 47:9

Jacob said to Pharaoh, “All the years of my travels are 130. All the years of my life have been few and painful; the years of my travels are not as long as those of my ancestors.”

Proverbs 15:13

A joyful heart makes the face cheerful, but by a painful heart the spirit is broken.

Proverbs 15:14

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

Proverbs 15:16

Better is little with the fear of the Lord than great wealth and turmoil with it.

Proverbs 16:22

Insight is like a life-giving fountain to the one who possesses it, but folly leads to the discipline of fools.

Proverbs 17:22

A cheerful heart brings good healing, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

Acts 16:25

About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the rest of the prisoners were listening to them.

Romans 12:12

Rejoice in hope, endure in suffering, persist in prayer.

Romans 5:11

Not only this, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received this reconciliation.

2 Corinthians 1:12

For our reason for confidence is this: the testimony of our conscience, that with pure motives and sincerity which are from God – not by human wisdom but by the grace of God – we conducted ourselves in the world, and all the more toward you.

2 Corinthians 1:5

For just as the sufferings of Christ overflow toward us, so also our comfort through Christ overflows to you.

2 Corinthians 6:10

as sorrowful, but always rejoicing, as poor, but making many rich, as having nothing, and yet possessing everything.

1 Peter 4:13

But rejoice in the degree that you have shared in the sufferings of Christ, so that when his glory is revealed you may also rejoice and be glad.