25 Anxiety in a man's heart weighs it down, but a kind word makes it glad.
Proverbs 12:25 Cross References - NHEB
Nehemiah 2:1-2
1 It happened in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artachshasta the king, when wine was before me, that I took up the wine, and gave it to the king. Now I had not been sad before 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.
Psalms 38:6
6 I am pained and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all day long.
Psalms 42:11
11 Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God. For I will again give him thanks, my saving presence and my God.
Proverbs 12:18
18 There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.
Proverbs 14:10
10 The heart knows its own bitterness and joy; he will not share these with a stranger.
Proverbs 15:13
13 A glad heart makes a cheerful face; but an aching heart breaks the spirit.
Proverbs 15:15
15 All the days of the afflicted are wretched, but one who has a cheerful heart enjoys a continual feast.
Proverbs 15:23
23 Joy comes to a man with the reply of his mouth. How good is a word at the right time.
Proverbs 16:24
24 Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
Proverbs 17:22
22 A cheerful heart makes good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
Proverbs 18:14
14 A man's spirit will sustain him in sickness, but a crushed spirit, who can bear?
Proverbs 25:11
11 A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.
Proverbs 27:9
9 Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart; so does earnest counsel from a man's friend.
Isaiah 50:4
4 The LORD has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with a word him who is weary: he wakens morning by morning, he wakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.
Zechariah 1:13
13 The LORD answered the angel who talked with me with kind and comforting words.
Mark 14:33-34
2 Corinthians 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.