Proverbs 12:25

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

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

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  • 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 wi was before him: and I took up the wi, 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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  • Prov 15:13
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    13A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.

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

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

  • Eccl 7:3-4
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    3Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.

    4The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.

  • Prov 14:13-14
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    13Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth is heaviness.

    14The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a good man shall be satisfied from himself.

  • Prov 15:23
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    23A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in due season, how good is it!

  • Prov 15:15-16
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    15All the days of the afflicted are evil: but he that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast.

    16Better is little with the fear of the LORD than great treasure and trouble therewith.

  • Prov 12:24
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    24The hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the slothful shall be under tribute.

  • Prov 13:12
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    12Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.

  • Prov 12:14
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    14A 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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    30A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.

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

  • Ps 104:15
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    15And wine that maketh glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face to shine, and bread which strengtheneth man's heart.

  • Ps 112:5
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    5A good man sheweth favour, and lendeth: he will guide his affairs with discretion.

  • Prov 25:20
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    20As he that taketh away a garment in cold weather, and as vinegar upon nitre, so is he that singeth songs to an heavy heart.

  • Prov 16:20
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    20He that handleth a matter wisely shall find good: and whoso trusteth in the LORD, happy is he.

  • Prov 12:20
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    20Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counsellers of peace is joy.

  • Prov 10:22
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    22The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.

  • Matt 12:35
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    35A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.

  • Prov 16:24
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    24Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

  • Prov 12:8
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    8A man shall be commended according to his wisdom: but he that is of a perverse heart shall be despised.

  • Prov 28:14
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    14Happy is the man that feareth alway: but he that hardeneth his heart shall fall into mischief.

  • Eccl 2:26
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    26For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.

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    3The foolishness of man perverteth his way: and his heart fretteth against the LORD.

  • Prov 28:25
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    25He that is of a oud heart stirreth up strife: but he that putteth his trust in the LORD shall be made fat.

  • Prov 12:2
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    2A good man obtaineth favour of the LORD: but a man of wicked devices will he condemn.

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    23A man's ide shall bring him low: but honour shall uphold the humble in spirit.

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    27It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.

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    22The desire of a man is his kindness: and a poor man is better than a liar.

    23The fear of the LORD tendeth to life: and he that hath it shall abide satisfied; he shall not be visited with evil.

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    20For he shall not much remember the days of his life; bause God answereth him in the joy of his heart.

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    11Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.

  • Ps 119:28
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    28My soul melteth for heaviness: strengthen thou me according unto thy word.

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    14The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?

  • Prov 10:1
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    9Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so doth the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel.

  • Prov 13:15
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    15Good understanding giveth favour: but the way of transgressors is hard.

  • Ps 4:7
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    7Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their corn and their wine increased.

  • Jer 31:25
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    25For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul.

  • Prov 15:21
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    21Folly is joy to him that is destitute of wisdom: but a man of understanding walketh uightly.

  • Prov 23:15
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    15My son, if thine heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.

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    10Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh: for childhood and youth are vanity.

  • Prov 21:22
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    22A wise man scaleth the city of the mighty, and casteth down the strength of the confidence thereof.