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Proverbs 15:13
A glad heart makes a cheerful face, but an aching heart breaks the spirit.
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Proverbs 16:24
Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
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Isaiah 50:4
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 awakens morning by morning, he awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.
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Proverbs 15:23
Joy comes to a man with the reply of his mouth. How good is a word at the right time!
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Proverbs 17:22
A cheerful heart makes good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
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Proverbs 12:18
There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.
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Proverbs 27:9
Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart; so does earnest counsel from a man’s friend.
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2 Corinthians 2 4-2 Corinthians 2 7
For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not that you should be made to grieve, but that you might know the love that I have so abundantly for you.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.This punishment which was inflicted by the many is sufficient for such a one;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.
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Zechariah 1:13
Yahweh answered the angel who talked with me with kind and comforting words.
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Proverbs 18:14
A man’s spirit will sustain him in sickness, but a crushed spirit, who can bear?
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Psalms 38:6
I am in pain and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all day long.
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Psalms 42:11
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.
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Proverbs 14:10
The heart knows its own bitterness and joy; he will not share these with a stranger.
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Proverbs 15:15
All the days of the afflicted are wretched, but one who has a cheerful heart enjoys a continual feast.
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Proverbs 25:11
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.
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Nehemiah 2:1-2
In the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, when wine was before him, I picked up the wine, and gave it to the king. Now I had not been sad before in his presence.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.
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Mark 14:33-34
He took with him Peter, James, and John, and began to be greatly troubled and distressed.He said to them,“ My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here, and watch.”
