A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: But a broken spirit drieth the bones.
A happy heart is good medicine and a cheerful mind works healing, but a broken spirit dries up the bones. [Prov. 12:25; 15:13, 15.]
A cheerful heart is a good medicine; But a broken spirit drieth up the bones.
A joyful heart helps healing, but a broken spirit dries up the bones.
A joyful soul makes a lifetime flourish. A gloomy spirit dries out the bones.
A joyful mind maketh age flourishing: a sorrowful spirit drieth up the bones.
my strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to my jaws; you lay me in the dust of death.
Anxiety in a man’s heart weighs him down, but a good word makes him glad.
A glad heart makes a cheerful face, but by sorrow of heart the spirit is crushed.
Gracious words are like a honeycomb, sweetness to the soul and health to the body.
A man’s spirit will endure sickness, but a crushed spirit who can bear?
I said of laughter, “It is mad,” and of pleasure, “What use is it?”
so you should rather turn to forgive and comfort him, or he may be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow.
For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, whereas worldly grief produces death.