Proverbs 15:13

Bible in Basic English (1941)

A glad heart makes a shining face, but by the sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 17:22 : 22 A glad heart makes a healthy body, but a crushed spirit makes the bones dry.
  • Prov 18:14 : 14 The spirit of a man will be his support when he is ill; but how may a broken spirit be lifted up?
  • Prov 12:25 : 25 Care in the heart of a man makes it weighted down, but a good word makes it glad.
  • Prov 15:15 : 15 All the days of the troubled are evil; but he whose heart is glad has an unending feast.
  • Neh 2:2 : 2 And the king said to me, Why is your face sad, seeing that you are not ill? this is nothing but sorrow of heart. Then I was full of fear;
  • John 14:1 : 1 Let not your heart be troubled: have faith in God and have faith in me.
  • 2 Cor 1:12 : 12 For our glory is in this, in the knowledge which we have that our way of life in the world, and most of all in relation to you, has been holy and true in the eyes of God; not in the wisdom of the flesh, but in the grace of God.
  • 2 Cor 2:7 : 7 So that now, on the other hand, it is right for him to have forgiveness and comfort from you, for fear that his sorrow may be over-great.
  • 2 Cor 7:10 : 10 For the sorrow which God gives is the cause of salvation through a change of heart, in which there is no reason for grief: but the sorrow of the world is a cause of death.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 17:22
    89%

    22A glad heart makes a healthy body, but a crushed spirit makes the bones dry.

  • Eccl 7:2-4
    3 verses
    84%

    2It is better to go to the house of weeping, than to go to the house of feasting; because that is the end of every man, and the living will take it to their hearts.

    3Sorrow is better than joy; when the face is sad the mind gets better.

    4The hearts of the wise are in the house of weeping; but the hearts of the foolish are in the house of joy.

  • Prov 14:13-14
    2 verses
    83%

    13Even while laughing the heart may be sad; and after joy comes sorrow.

    14He whose heart is turned away will have the reward of his ways in full measure; but a good man will have the reward of his doings.

  • Prov 15:14-16
    3 verses
    82%

    14The heart of the man of good sense goes in search of knowledge, but foolish things are the food of the unwise.

    15All the days of the troubled are evil; but he whose heart is glad has an unending feast.

    16Better is a little with the fear of the Lord, than great wealth together with trouble.

  • Prov 12:25
    82%

    25Care in the heart of a man makes it weighted down, but a good word makes it glad.

  • Prov 15:30
    77%

    30The light of the eyes is a joy to the heart, and good news makes the bones fat.

  • Prov 18:14
    74%

    14The spirit of a man will be his support when he is ill; but how may a broken spirit be lifted up?

  • Prov 14:30
    73%

    30A quiet mind is the life of the body, but envy is a disease in the bones.

  • Prov 25:20
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    20Like one who takes off clothing in cold weather and like acid on a wound, is he who makes melody to a sad heart.

  • Ps 104:15
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    15And wine to make glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face shining, and bread giving strength to his heart.

  • Jas 4:9
    72%

    9Be troubled, with sorrow and weeping; let your laughing be turned to sorrow and your joy to grief.

  • Lam 5:15
    72%

    15The joy of our hearts is ended; our dancing is changed into sorrow.

  • Prov 23:15
    72%

    15My son, if your heart becomes wise, I, even I, will be glad in heart;

  • Prov 14:10
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    10No one has knowledge of a man's grief but himself; and a strange person has no part in his joy.

  • Job 8:21
    72%

    21The time will come when your mouth will be full of laughing, and cries of joy will come from your lips.

  • Prov 15:20-21
    2 verses
    72%

    20A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish man has no respect for his mother.

    21Foolish behaviour is joy to the unwise; but a man of good sense makes his way straight.

  • Prov 15:23
    71%

    23A man has joy in the answer of his mouth: and a word at the right time, how good it is!

  • Eccl 11:9-10
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    71%

    9Have joy, O young man, while you are young; and let your heart be glad in the days of your strength, and go in the ways of your heart, and in the desire of your eyes; but be certain that for all these things God will be your judge.

    10So put away trouble from your heart, and sorrow from your flesh; because the early years and the best years are to no purpose.

  • Eccl 8:15
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    15So I gave praise to joy, because there is nothing better for a man to do under the sun than to take meat and drink and be happy; for that will be with him in his work all the days of his life which God gives him under the sun.

  • Prov 15:4
    71%

    4A comforting tongue is a tree of life, but a twisted tongue is a crushing of the spirit.

  • Prov 13:12
    71%

    12Hope put off is a weariness to the heart; but when what is desired comes, it is a tree of life.

  • Prov 15:7
    70%

    7The lips of the wise keep knowledge, but the heart of the foolish man is not right.

  • Ps 32:11
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    11Be glad in the Lord with joy, you upright men; give cries of joy, all you whose hearts are true.

  • Rom 12:15
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    15Take part in the joy of those who are glad, and in the grief of those who are sorrowing.

  • Isa 24:7
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    7The new wine is thin, the vine is feeble, and all the glad-hearted make sounds of grief.

  • Prov 10:22
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    22The blessing of the Lord gives wealth: hard work makes it no greater.

  • Ps 51:8
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    8Make me full of joy and rapture; so that the bones which have been broken may be glad.

  • Ps 4:7
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    7Lord, you have put joy in my heart, more than they have when their grain and their wine are increased.

  • Prov 19:3
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    3By his foolish behaviour a man's ways are turned upside down, and his heart is bitter against the Lord.

  • Ps 147:3
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    3He makes the broken-hearted well, and puts oil on their wounds.

  • Eccl 10:19
    70%

    19A feast is for laughing, and wine makes glad the heart; but by the one and the other money is wasted.

  • Prov 12:20
    70%

    20Deceit is in the heart of those whose designs are evil, but for those purposing peace there is joy.

  • Prov 27:9
    69%

    9Oil and perfume make glad the heart, and the wise suggestion of a friend is sweet to the soul.

  • Ps 97:11
    69%

    11Light is shining on the lovers of righteousness, and for the upright in heart there is joy.

  • Eccl 2:2
    69%

    2Of laughing I said, It is foolish; and of joy--What use is it?

  • Prov 13:15
    69%

    15Wise behaviour gets approval, but the way of the false is their destruction.

  • Prov 15:12
    69%

    12The hater of authority has no love for teaching: he will not go to the wise.

  • Eccl 7:6
    69%

    6Like the cracking of thorns under a pot, so is the laugh of a foolish man; and this again is to no purpose.