A glad heart makes good a face, But by sorrow of heart the spirit is stricken.
And the sovereign said to me, “Why is your face sad, since you are not sick? This is none else but sorrow of heart.” Then I was very much afraid,
Anxiety in the heart of man causes depression, But a good word makes him glad.
A healthy heart is life to the body, But envy is rottenness to the bones.
All the days of the afflicted are evil, But gladness of heart is a continual feast.
A rejoicing heart causes good healing, But a stricken spirit dries the bones.
The spirit of a man sustains him in sickness, But who does bear a broken spirit?
“Let not your heart be troubled. Believe in Elohim, believe also in Me.
For our boasting is this: the witness of our conscience that we behaved ourselves in the world in simplicity and sincerity of Elohim, not in fleshly wisdom but in the favour of Elohim, and much more toward you.
so that, on the contrary, you should rather forgive and comfort, lest somehow such a one be swallowed up with too much sadness.
For sadness according to Elohim works repentance to deliverance, not to be regretted, but the sadness of the world works death.