Proverbs 15:15

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

All the days of the afflicted are evil, but a cheerful heart has a continual feast.

Cross References

Genesis 37:35

All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted, and said, “No, I shall go down to Sheol to my son, mourning.” Thus his father wept for him.

Genesis 47:9

And Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my sojourning are a hundred and thirty years; few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their sojourning.”

Proverbs 15:13

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

Proverbs 15:14

The mind of him who has understanding seeks knowledge, but the mouths of fools feed on folly.

Proverbs 15:16

Better is a little with the fear of the Lord than great treasure and trouble with it.

Proverbs 16:22

Wisdom is a fountain of life to him who has it, but folly is the chastisement of fools.

Proverbs 17:22

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

Acts 16:25

But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them,

Romans 12:12

Rejoice in your hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.

Romans 5:11

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

2 Corinthians 1:12

For our boast is this, the testimony of our conscience that we have behaved in the world, and still more toward you, with holiness and godly sincerity, not by earthly wisdom but by the grace of God.

2 Corinthians 1:5

For as we share abundantly in Christ's sufferings, so through Christ we share abundantly in comfort too.

2 Corinthians 6:10

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

1 Peter 4:13

But rejoice in so far as you share Christ's sufferings, that you may also rejoice and be glad when his glory is revealed.