Proverbs 17:22 Cross References - JPS_ASV_Byz

²² A merry heart is a good medicine; but a broken spirit drieth the bones.

¹⁵ (22:16) My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my throat; and Thou layest me in the dust of death.

³ When I kept silence, my bones wore away through my groaning all the day long. ⁴ For day and night Thy hand was heavy upon me; my sap was turned as in the droughts of summer. Selah

³ (102:4) For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as a hearth. ⁴ (102:5) My heart is smitten like grass, and withered; for I forget to eat my bread. ⁵ (102:6) By reason of the voice of my sighing my bones cleave to my flesh.

²⁵ Care in the heart of a man boweth it down; but a good word maketh it glad.

¹³ A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance; but by sorrow of heart the spirit is broken.

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

⁷ Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God hath already accepted thy works. ⁸ Let thy garments be always white; and let thy head lack no oil. ⁹ Enjoy life with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which He hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity; for that is thy portion in life, and in thy labour wherein thou labourest under the sun.

² through whom also we have had our access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. ³ And not only so, but we also rejoice in our tribulations; knowing that tribulation worketh stedfastness, ⁴ and stedfastness, approvedness, and approvedness, hope: ⁵ and hope putteth not to shame, because the love of God hath been shed abroad in our hearts through the Holy Spirit which was given unto us.

⁷ so that contrariwise ye should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his overmuch sorrow.

¹⁰ For godly sorrow worketh repentance unto salvation, a repentance which bringeth no regret; but the sorrow of the world worketh death.