Proverbs 17:22

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 15:13 : 13 A glad heart makes a shining face, but by the sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.
  • Prov 12:25 : 25 Care in the heart of a man makes it weighted down, but a good word makes it glad.
  • 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?
  • 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.
  • Eccl 9:7-9 : 7 Come, take your bread with joy, and your wine with a glad heart. God has taken pleasure in your works. 8 Let your clothing be white at all times, and let not your head be without oil. 9 Have joy with the woman of your love all the days of your foolish life which he gives you under the sun. Because that is your part in life and in your work which you do under the sun.
  • Rom 5:2-5 : 2 Through whom, in the same way, we have been able by faith to come to this grace in which we now are; and let us have joy in hope of the glory of God. 3 And not only so, but let us have joy in our troubles: in the knowledge that trouble gives us the power of waiting; 4 And waiting gives experience; and experience, hope: 5 And hope does not put to shame; because our hearts are full of the love of God through the Holy Spirit which is given to us.
  • Ps 102:3-5 : 3 My days are wasted like smoke, and my bones are burned up as in a fire. 4 My heart is broken; it has become dry and dead like grass, so that I give no thought to food. 5 Because of the voice of my sorrow, my flesh is wasted to the bone.
  • Ps 22:15 : 15 My throat is dry like a broken vessel; my tongue is fixed to the roof of my mouth, and the dust of death is on my lips.
  • 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.
  • Ps 32:3-4 : 3 When I kept my mouth shut, my bones were wasted, because of my crying all through the day. 4 For the weight of your hand was on me day and night; my body became dry like the earth in summer. (Selah.)

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 15:13-16
    4 verses
    89%

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

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

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

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

  • Prov 12:25
    78%

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

  • Prov 15:30
    78%

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

  • Eccl 7:2-4
    3 verses
    77%

    2 It 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.

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

    4 The 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
    77%

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

    14 He 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 14:30
    76%

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

  • Prov 18:14
    74%

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

  • Prov 3:8
    73%

    8 This will give strength to your flesh, and new life to your bones.

  • Ps 51:8
    73%

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

  • Prov 16:24
    73%

    24 Pleasing words are like honey, sweet to the soul and new life to the bones.

  • Prov 17:20-21
    2 verses
    72%

    20 Nothing good comes to him whose heart is fixed on evil purposes: and he who has an evil tongue will come to trouble.

    21 He who has an unwise son gets sorrow for himself, and the father of a foolish son has no joy.

  • Prov 25:20
    72%

    20 Like 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
    71%

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

  • Job 8:21
    71%

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

  • Eccl 2:1-2
    2 verses
    70%

    1 I said in my heart, I will give you joy for a test; so take your pleasure--but it was to no purpose.

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

  • Eccl 8:15
    70%

    15 So 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 15:23
    70%

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

  • Ps 147:3
    70%

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

  • Prov 15:4
    70%

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

  • Eccl 10:19
    70%

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

  • Eccl 11:10
    70%

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

  • Prov 15:21
    70%

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

  • Prov 4:22
    70%

    22 For they are life to him who gets them, and strength to all his flesh.

  • Eccl 7:6
    69%

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

  • Prov 17:23
    69%

    23 A sinner takes an offering out of his robe, to get a decision for himself in a cause.

  • Prov 13:12
    69%

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

  • Prov 10:22-23
    2 verses
    68%

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

    23 It is sport to the foolish man to do evil, but the man of good sense takes delight in wisdom.

  • Prov 19:3
    68%

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

  • Prov 31:6
    68%

    6 Give strong drink to him who is near to destruction, and wine to him whose soul is bitter:

  • Job 5:17
    68%

    17 Truly, that man is happy who has training from the hand of God: so do not let your heart be shut to the teaching of the Ruler of all.

  • Prov 11:17
    68%

    17 The man who has mercy will be rewarded, but the cruel man is the cause of trouble to himself.

  • Prov 23:15
    68%

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

  • Prov 27:9
    68%

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

  • Eccl 9:7
    68%

    7 Come, take your bread with joy, and your wine with a glad heart. God has taken pleasure in your works.

  • Prov 14:10
    68%

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

  • Eccl 3:12
    68%

    12 I am certain that there is nothing better for a man than to be glad, and to do good while life is in him.