Verse 25

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 15:13 : 13 A merry heart makes a cheerful countenance, but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.
  • Isa 50:4 : 4 The Lord GOD has given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he awakens morning by morning, he awakens my ear to hear as the learned.
  • Prov 15:23 : 23 A man has joy by the answer of his mouth, and a word spoken in due season, how good it is!
  • Prov 16:24 : 24 Pleasant words are like a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and health to the bones.
  • Prov 17:22 : 22 A merry heart does good, like medicine, but a broken spirit dries the bones.
  • Prov 12:18 : 18 There are those who speak like the piercings of a sword, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.
  • Prov 14:10 : 10 The heart knows its own bitterness, and a stranger does not share its joy.
  • Ps 38:6 : 6 I am troubled; I am greatly bowed down; I go mourning all the day long.
  • Ps 42:11 : 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.
  • 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 spoken at the right time is like apples of gold in settings of silver.
  • Prov 27:9 : 9 Ointment and perfume make the heart rejoice; so does the sweetness of a man's friend through earnest counsel.
  • Zech 1:13 : 13 And the LORD answered the angel who talked with me with good and comforting words.
  • Prov 15:15 : 15 All the days of the afflicted are evil, but he who has a merry heart has a continual feast.
  • 2 Cor 2:4-7 : 4 For out of much trouble and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears; not that you should be grieved, but that you might know the love I have more abundantly toward you. 5 But if anyone has caused grief, he has not grieved me, but in part, that I may not put too much burden on you all. 6 The punishment inflicted by many is sufficient for such a person. 7 So, on the contrary, you ought rather to forgive and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one be swallowed up with excessive sorrow.
  • Neh 2:1-2 : 1 And it came to pass in the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, that wine was before him, and I took the wine and gave it to the king. Now I had not been sad in his presence previously. 2 Therefore the king said to me, Why is your face sad, since you are not sick? This is nothing but sorrow of heart. Then I was very much afraid,
  • 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.