Proverbs 18:14

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Prov 15:13 : 13 A merry heart makes a cheerful countenance, but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.
  • Prov 17:22 : 22 A merry heart does good, like medicine, but a broken spirit dries the bones.
  • 2 Cor 12:9-9 : 9 And He said to me, My grace is sufficient for you; for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 10 Therefore, I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake; for when I am weak, then I am strong.
  • Jas 1:2 : 2 My brothers, count it all joy when you fall into various trials;
  • 1 Pet 1:6 : 6 In which you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials:
  • Ps 147:3 : 3 He heals the brokenhearted, and binds up their wounds.
  • Mark 14:33-34 : 33 And he took with him Peter and James and John, and began to be distressed and deeply troubled. 34 And he said to them, My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even unto death; stay here and watch.
  • Rom 5:3-5 : 3 And not only that, but we also glory in tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces patience; 4 And patience, character; and character, hope: 5 And hope does not disappoint, because the love of God is poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who is given to us.
  • Rom 8:35-37 : 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 As it is written: 'For Your sake we are killed all day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.' 37 Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.
  • 2 Cor 1:12 : 12 For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have conducted ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.
  • 2 Cor 2:7 : 7 So, on the contrary, you ought rather to forgive and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one be swallowed up with excessive sorrow.
  • Job 1:20-21 : 20 Then Job arose, tore his robe, shaved his head, and fell to the ground and worshipped. 21 And he said, "Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked shall I return there. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD."
  • Job 2:7-9 : 7 So Satan went forth from the presence of the LORD, and struck Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head. 8 And he took a potsherd to scrape himself with, and he sat down among the ashes. 9 Then his wife said to him, Do you still retain your integrity? Curse God, and die. 10 But he said to her, You speak as one of the foolish women speaks. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this Job did not sin with his lips.
  • Job 6:4 : 4 For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison which drinks up my spirit; the terrors of God have arrayed themselves against me.
  • Job 7:14-15 : 14 then you scare me with dreams, and terrify me with visions: 15 so that my soul chooses strangling, and death rather than my life.
  • Job 10:15-17 : 15 If I am wicked, woe to me; and if I am righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see my affliction; 16 For it increases. You hunt me as a fierce lion; and again You show Yourself marvelous upon me. 17 You renew Your witnesses against me, and increase Your indignation upon me; changes and war are against me.
  • Ps 30:9-9 : 9 What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise you? shall it declare your truth? 10 Hear, O LORD, and have mercy upon me: LORD, be my helper.
  • Ps 32:3-4 : 3 When I kept silent, my bones grew old through my groaning all day long. 4 For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; my vitality turned into the drought of summer. Selah.
  • Ps 38:2-4 : 2 For your arrows pierce deeply into me, and your hand presses me hard. 3 There is no health in my flesh because of your anger, nor is there any rest in my bones because of my sin. 4 For my iniquities have gone over my head; like a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.
  • Ps 42:10-11 : 10 As with a sword in my bones, my enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is your God? 11 Why are you cast down, O my soul? and why are you disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise Him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.
  • Ps 55:3 : 3 Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked; for they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me.
  • Ps 55:5 : 5 Fearfulness and trembling have come upon me, and horror has overwhelmed me.
  • Ps 77:2-3 : 2 In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord; my hand was stretched out in the night and did not rest; my soul refused to be comforted. 3 I remembered God, and was troubled; I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.
  • Ps 88:14-16 : 14 LORD, why do you cast off my soul? Why do you hide your face from me? 15 I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up; while I suffer your terrors, I am distracted. 16 Your fierce wrath goes over me; your terrors have cut me off.
  • Ps 109:22 : 22 For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 17:22
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    22 A merry heart does good, like medicine, but a broken spirit dries the bones.

  • Prov 15:13
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    13 A merry heart makes a cheerful countenance, but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.

  • Prov 25:28
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    28 Whoever has no rule over his own spirit is like a city broken down, without walls.

  • Prov 18:15
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    15 The heart of the prudent acquires knowledge; and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge.

  • Prov 20:27
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    27 The spirit of man is the lamp of the LORD, searching all the inner depths of the heart.

  • Prov 17:27
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    27 He who has knowledge spares his words, and a man of understanding is of a calm spirit.

  • Prov 12:25
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    25 Anxiety in a man's heart weighs it down, but a good word makes it glad.

  • Job 14:22
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    22 But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul within him shall mourn.

  • Prov 14:29-30
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    29 He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who is quick-tempered exalts folly.

    30 A sound heart is life to the body, but envy is rottenness to the bones.

  • Job 34:14
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    14 If He sets His heart upon man, if He gathers to Himself His spirit and His breath,

  • Job 32:8
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    8 But there is a spirit in man, and the inspiration of the Almighty gives them understanding.

  • Prov 29:23
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    23 A man's pride will bring him low; but honor shall uphold the humble in spirit.

  • Ps 147:3
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    3 He heals the brokenhearted, and binds up their wounds.

  • Isa 38:16
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    16 O Lord, by these things men live, and in all these things is the life of my spirit: so You will restore me, and make me live.

  • Ps 34:18
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    18 The LORD is near to those who have a broken heart; and saves such as have a contrite spirit.

  • Prov 24:10
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    10 If you faint in the day of adversity, your strength is small.

  • Prov 18:12-13
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    12 Before destruction the heart of a man is haughty, and before honor is humility.

    13 He who answers a matter before he hears it, it is folly and shame to him.

  • Prov 16:18
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    18 Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

  • Prov 15:4
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    4 A wholesome tongue is a tree of life, but perverseness in it is a break in the spirit.

  • 1 Cor 2:11
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    11 For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of man which is in him? Even so, no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God.

  • Eccl 8:8
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    8 There is no man who has power over the spirit to retain the spirit, nor does he have power in the day of death; and there is no release from that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those who are given to it.

  • Jer 8:18
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    18 When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint within me.

  • Eccl 3:21
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    21 Who knows the spirit of man that goes upward, and the spirit of the beast that goes downward to the earth?

  • Job 14:10
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    10 But man dies and wastes away; yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?

  • Prov 16:2
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    2 All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes; but the LORD weighs the spirits.

  • Prov 19:3
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    3 The foolishness of man perverts his way, and his heart frets against the LORD.

  • Prov 20:5
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    5 Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water, but a man of understanding will draw it out.

  • Job 15:13
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    13 That you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth?

  • Eccl 7:8
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    8 Better is the end of a thing than its beginning; and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

  • Luke 13:11
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    11 And behold, there was a woman who had a spirit of infirmity for eighteen years, and was bent over, and could in no way raise herself up.

  • Gal 6:1
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    1 Brothers, if a man is caught in a fault, you who are spiritual, restore such a one in the spirit of meekness; considering yourself, lest you also be tempted.

  • Ps 143:4
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    4 Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.

  • Job 33:18
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    18 He keeps back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.

  • Prov 11:17
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    17 The merciful man does good to his own soul, but he who is cruel troubles his own flesh.

  • Job 6:14
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    14 To him who is afflicted, pity should be shown by his friend; yet he forsakes the fear of the Almighty.

  • Eccl 10:4
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    4 If the spirit of the ruler rises up against you, do not leave your place; for yielding pacifies great offenses.

  • Isa 1:5-6
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    5 Why should you be stricken any more? you will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

    6 From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrefying sores: they have not been closed, nor bound up, nor soothed with ointment.

  • 2 Cor 4:16
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    16 For this reason we do not lose heart; but though our outward man perishes, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.

  • Prov 19:11
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    11 The discretion of a man defers his anger, and it is his glory to overlook a transgression.

  • Job 5:18
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    18 For he makes sore, and binds up: he wounds, and his hands make whole.

  • 1 Sam 2:4
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    4 The bows of the mighty men are broken, and those who stumbled are girded with strength.

  • Job 21:4
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    4 As for me, is my complaint to a man? And if it were, why should my spirit not be troubled?

  • Isa 40:30
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    30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall,

  • Prov 16:32
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    32 He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city.

  • Prov 14:14
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    14 The backslider in heart will be filled with his own ways, but a good man will be satisfied from himself.

  • Prov 29:1
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    1 He who is often reproved and hardens his neck shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.

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

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