Verse 25

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

Referenced Verses

  • Prov 15:13 : 13 A glad heart makes a cheerful face; but an aching heart breaks the spirit.
  • Isa 50:4 : 4 The Lord Yahweh has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary: he wakens morning by morning, he wakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.
  • Prov 15:23 : 23 Joy comes to a man with the reply of his mouth. How good is a word at the right time!
  • Prov 16:24 : 24 Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
  • Prov 17:22 : 22 A cheerful heart makes good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
  • Prov 12:18 : 18 There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.
  • Prov 14:10 : 10 The heart knows its own bitterness and joy; he will not share these with a stranger.
  • Ps 38:6 : 6 I am pained and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all day long.
  • Ps 42:11 : 11 Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him, the saving help of my countenance, and my God.
  • Prov 18:14 : 14 A man's spirit will sustain him in sickness, but a crushed spirit, who can bear?
  • Prov 25:11 : 11 A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.
  • Prov 27:9 : 9 Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart; so does earnest counsel from a man's friend.
  • Zech 1:13 : 13 Yahweh answered the angel who talked with me with kind and comforting words.
  • Prov 15:15 : 15 All the days of the afflicted are wretched, but one who has a cheerful heart enjoys a continual feast.
  • 2 Cor 2:4-7 : 4 For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not that you should be made sorry, but that you might know the love that I have so abundantly for you. 5 But if any has caused sorrow, he has caused sorrow, not to me, but in part (that I not press too heavily) to you all. 6 Sufficient to such a one is this punishment which was inflicted by the many; 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.
  • Neh 2:1-2 : 1 It happened in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, when wine was before him, that I took up the wine, and gave it to the king. Now I had not been [before] sad in his presence. 2 The king said to me, "Why is your face sad, since you are not sick? This is nothing else but sorrow of heart." Then I was very much afraid.
  • Mark 14:33-34 : 33 He took with him Peter, James, and John, and began to be greatly troubled and distressed. 34 He said to them, "My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here, and watch."