Verse 15

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 15:13 : 13 A joyful heart makes a cheerful face, but a heart full of sorrow crushes the spirit.
  • Prov 17:22 : 22 A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
  • 2 Cor 6:10 : 10 as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, yet possessing everything.
  • Rom 5:2-3 : 2 Through Him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God. 3 Not only that, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance.
  • Rom 5:11 : 11 Not only that, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.
  • Rom 12:12 : 12 Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, and faithful in prayer.
  • 2 Cor 1:5 : 5 For just as the sufferings of Christ overflow into our lives, so also through Christ our comfort overflows.
  • Acts 16:25 : 25 Around midnight, Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening to them.
  • 1 Pet 1:6-8 : 6 In this you rejoice greatly, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials, 7 so that the tested genuineness of your faith—more valuable than gold that perishes though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ. 8 Though you have not seen Him, you love Him. Though not seeing Him now, you believe in Him and rejoice with an inexpressible and glorious joy,
  • 1 Pet 4:13 : 13 But rejoice inasmuch as you participate in the sufferings of Christ, so that you may be overjoyed when his glory is revealed.
  • Prov 16:22 : 22 Understanding is a fountain of life to the one who has it, but the discipline of fools is folly.