Proverbs 12:25

Authorized King James Version (1611)

¶ Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 15:13 : 13 ¶ A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.
  • Isa 50:4 : 4 ¶ The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to [him that is] weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned.
  • Prov 15:23 : 23 ¶ A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word [spoken] in due season, how good [is it]!
  • Prov 16:24 : 24 ¶ Pleasant words [are as] an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
  • Prov 17:22 : 22 ¶ A merry heart doeth good [like] a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
  • Prov 12:18 : 18 ¶ There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise [is] health.
  • Prov 14:10 : 10 ¶ The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy.
  • Ps 38:6 : 6 I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.
  • Ps 42:11 : 11 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, [who is] the health of my countenance, and my God.
  • Prov 18:14 : 14 ¶ The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?
  • Prov 25:11 : 11 ¶ A word fitly spoken [is like] apples of gold in pictures of silver.
  • Prov 27:9 : 9 ¶ Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so [doth] the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel.
  • Zech 1:13 : 13 And the LORD answered the angel that talked with me [with] good words [and] comfortable words.
  • Prov 15:15 : 15 ¶ All the days of the afflicted [are] evil: but he that is of a merry heart [hath] a continual feast.
  • 2 Cor 2:4-7 : 4 For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you. 5 ¶ But if any have caused grief, he hath not grieved me, but in part: that I may not overcharge you all. 6 Sufficient to such a man [is] this punishment, which [was inflicted] of many. 7 So that contrariwise ye [ought] rather to forgive [him], and comfort [him], lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.
  • Neh 2:1-2 : 1 ¶ And it came to pass in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, [that] wine [was] before him: and I took up the wine, and gave [it] unto the king. Now I had not been [beforetime] sad in his presence. 2 Wherefore the king said unto me, Why [is] thy countenance sad, seeing thou [art] not sick? this [is] nothing [else] but sorrow of heart. Then I was very sore afraid,
  • Mark 14:33-34 : 33 And he taketh with him Peter and James and John, and began to be sore amazed, and to be very heavy; 34 And saith unto them, ‹My soul is exceeding sorrowful unto death: tarry ye here, and watch.›

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    13 ¶ A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.

  • Prov 17:22
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    22 ¶ A merry heart doeth good [like] a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.

  • Prov 15:30
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    30 ¶ The light of the eyes rejoiceth the heart: [and] a good report maketh the bones fat.

  • Eccl 7:3-4
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  • Prov 14:13-14
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    13 ¶ Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth [is] heaviness.

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    23 ¶ A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word [spoken] in due season, how good [is it]!

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    15 ¶ All the days of the afflicted [are] evil: but he that is of a merry heart [hath] a continual feast.

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    24 ¶ The hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the slothful shall be under tribute.

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    12 ¶ Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but [when] the desire cometh, [it is] a tree of life.

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    14 ¶ A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of [his] mouth: and the recompence of a man's hands shall be rendered unto him.

  • Prov 14:30
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    30 ¶ A sound heart [is] the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.

  • Prov 12:26
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    26 ¶ The righteous [is] more excellent than his neighbour: but the way of the wicked seduceth them.

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    20 ¶ Deceit [is] in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counsellors of peace [is] joy.

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    24 ¶ Pleasant words [are as] an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

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