Proverbs 17:22

World English Bible (2000)

A cheerful heart makes good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 15:13 : 13 A glad heart makes a cheerful face; but an aching heart breaks the spirit.
  • Prov 12:25 : 25 Anxiety in a man's heart weighs it down, but a kind word makes it glad.
  • Prov 18:14 : 14 A man's spirit will sustain him in sickness, but a crushed spirit, who can bear?
  • 2 Cor 7:10 : 10 For godly sorrow works repentance to salvation, which brings no regret. But the sorrow of the world works death.
  • Eccl 9:7-9 : 7 Go your way--eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God has already accepted your works. 8 Let your garments be always white, and don't let your head lack oil. 9 Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your life of vanity, which he has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity: for that is your portion in life, and in your labor in which you labor under the sun.
  • Rom 5:2-5 : 2 through whom we also have our access by faith into this grace in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God. 3 Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering works perseverance; 4 and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope: 5 and hope doesn't disappoint us, because God's love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
  • Ps 102:3-5 : 3 For my days consume away like smoke. My bones are burned as a torch. 4 My heart is blighted like grass, and withered, for I forget to eat my bread. 5 By reason of the voice of my groaning, my bones stick to my skin.
  • Ps 22:15 : 15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd. My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You have brought me into the dust of death.
  • 2 Cor 2:7 : 7 so that on the contrary you should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his excessive sorrow.
  • Ps 32:3-4 : 3 When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long. 4 For day and night your hand was heavy on me. My strength was sapped in the heat of summer. Selah.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 15:13-16
    4 verses
    89%

    13 A glad heart makes a cheerful face; but an aching heart breaks the spirit.

    14 The heart of one who has understanding seeks knowledge, but the mouths of fools feed on folly.

    15 All the days of the afflicted are wretched, but one who has a cheerful heart enjoys a continual feast.

    16 Better is little, with the fear of Yahweh, than great treasure with trouble.

  • Prov 12:25
    78%

    25 Anxiety in a man's heart weighs it down, but a kind word makes it glad.

  • Prov 15:30
    78%

    30 The light of the eyes rejoices the heart. Good news gives health to the bones.

  • Eccl 7:2-4
    3 verses
    77%

    2 It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men, and the living should take this to heart.

    3 Sorrow is better than laughter; for by the sadness of the face the heart is made good.

    4 The 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
    2 verses
    77%

    13 Even in laughter the heart may be sorrowful, and mirth may end in heaviness.

    14 The unfaithful will be repaid for his own ways; likewise a good man will be rewarded for his ways.

  • Prov 14:30
    76%

    30 The life of the body is a heart at peace, but envy rots the bones.

  • Prov 18:14
    74%

    14 A man's spirit will sustain him in sickness, but a crushed spirit, who can bear?

  • Prov 3:8
    73%

    8 It will be health to your body, and nourishment to your bones.

  • Ps 51:8
    73%

    8 Let me hear joy and gladness, That the bones which you have broken may rejoice.

  • Prov 16:24
    73%

    24 Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

  • Prov 17:20-21
    2 verses
    72%

    20 One who has a perverse heart doesn't find prosperity, and one who has a deceitful tongue falls into trouble.

    21 He who becomes the father of a fool grieves. The father of a fool has no joy.

  • Prov 25:20
    72%

    20 As one who takes away a garment in cold weather, or vinegar on soda, so is one who sings songs to a heavy heart.

  • Ps 104:15
    71%

    15 wine that makes glad the heart of man, oil to make his face to shine, and bread that strengthens man's heart.

  • Job 8:21
    71%

    21 He will still fill your mouth with laughter, your lips with shouting.

  • Eccl 2:1-2
    2 verses
    70%

    1 I said in my heart, "Come now, I will test you with mirth: therefore enjoy pleasure;" and behold, this also was vanity.

    2 I said of laughter, "It is foolishness;" and of mirth, "What does it accomplish?"

  • Eccl 8:15
    70%

    15 Then I commended mirth, because a man has no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be joyful: for that will accompany him in his labor all the days of his life which God has given him under the sun.

  • Prov 15:23
    70%

    23 Joy comes to a man with the reply of his mouth. How good is a word at the right time!

  • Ps 147:3
    70%

    3 He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.

  • Prov 15:4
    70%

    4 A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but deceit in it crushes the spirit.

  • Eccl 10:19
    70%

    19 A feast is made for laughter, and wine makes the life glad; and money is the answer for all things.

  • Eccl 11:10
    70%

    10 Therefore remove sorrow from your heart, and put away evil from your flesh; for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.

  • Prov 15:21
    70%

    21 Folly is joy to one who is void of wisdom, but a man of understanding keeps his way straight.

  • Prov 4:22
    70%

    22 For they are life to those who find them, and health to their whole body.

  • Eccl 7:6
    69%

    6 For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool. This also is vanity.

  • Prov 17:23
    69%

    23 A wicked man receives a bribe in secret, to pervert the ways of justice.

  • Prov 13:12
    69%

    12 Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but when longing is fulfilled, it is a tree of life.

  • Prov 10:22-23
    2 verses
    68%

    22 Yahweh's blessing brings wealth, and he adds no trouble to it.

    23 It is a fool's pleasure to do wickedness, but wisdom is a man of understanding's pleasure.

  • Prov 19:3
    68%

    3 The foolishness of man subverts his way; his heart rages against Yahweh.

  • Prov 31:6
    68%

    6 Give strong drink to him who is ready to perish; and wine to the bitter in soul:

  • Job 5:17
    68%

    17 "Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.

  • Prov 11:17
    68%

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

  • Prov 23:15
    68%

    15 My son, if your heart is wise, then my heart will be glad, even mine:

  • Prov 27:9
    68%

    9 Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart; so does earnest counsel from a man's friend.

  • Eccl 9:7
    68%

    7 Go your way--eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God has already accepted your works.

  • Prov 14:10
    68%

    10 The heart knows its own bitterness and joy; he will not share these with a stranger.

  • Eccl 5:20
    68%

    20 For he shall not often reflect on the days of his life; because God occupies him with the joy of his heart.

  • Eccl 3:12
    68%

    12 I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice, and to do good as long as they live.