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Proverbs 15:13
A happy heart makes the face cheerful, but heartache crushes the spirit.
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Proverbs 17:22
A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
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2 Corinthians 12 9-2 Corinthians 12 10
But he said to me,“ My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
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James 1:2
Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds,
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Psalms 147:3
He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.
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1 Peter 1 6
In all this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials.
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2 Corinthians 2 7
Now instead, you ought to forgive and comfort him, so that he will not be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow.
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Psalms 88:14-16
Why, Lord, do you reject me and hide your face from me?From my youth I have suffered and been close to death; I have borne your terrors and am in despair.Your wrath has swept over me; your terrors have destroyed me.
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Psalms 32:3-4
When I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.For day and night your hand was heavy on me; my strength was sapped as in the heat of summer.
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Psalms 77:2-3
When I was in distress, I sought the Lord; at night I stretched out untiring hands, and I would not be comforted.I remembered you, God, and I groaned; I meditated, and my spirit grew faint.
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Psalms 109:22
For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
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Mark 14:33-34
He took Peter, James and John along with him, and he began to be deeply distressed and troubled.“ My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death,” he said to them.“ Stay here and keep watch.”
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Psalms 38:2-4
Your arrows have pierced me, and your hand has come down on me.Because of your wrath there is no health in my body; there is no soundness in my bones because of my sin.My guilt has overwhelmed me like a burden too heavy to bear.
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Psalms 42:10-11
My bones suffer mortal agony as my foes taunt me, saying to me all day long,“ Where is your God?”Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God.
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Romans 5:3-5
Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance;perseverance, character; and character, hope.And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.
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Job 2:7-10
So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord and afflicted Job with painful sores from the soles of his feet to the crown of his head.Then Job took a piece of broken pottery and scraped himself with it as he sat among the ashes.His wife said to him,“ Are you still maintaining your integrity? Curse God and die!”He replied,“ You are talking like a foolish woman. Shall we accept good from God, and not trouble?” In all this, Job did not sin in what he said.
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Job 1:20-21
At this, Job got up and tore his robe and shaved his head. Then he fell to the ground in worshipand said:“ Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will depart. The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; may the name of the Lord be praised.”
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Psalms 55:5
Fear and trembling have beset me; horror has overwhelmed me.
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Job 10:15-17
If I am guilty— woe to me! Even if I am innocent, I cannot lift my head, for I am full of shame and drowned in my affliction.If I hold my head high, you stalk me like a lion and again display your awesome power against me.You bring new witnesses against me and increase your anger toward me; your forces come against me wave upon wave.
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2 Corinthians 1 12
Now this is our boast: Our conscience testifies that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially in our relations with you, with integrity and godly sincerity. We have done so, relying not on worldly wisdom but on God’s grace.
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Job 7:14-15
even then you frighten me with dreams and terrify me with visions,so that I prefer strangling and death, rather than this body of mine.
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Psalms 30:9-10
“ What is gained if I am silenced, if I go down to the pit? Will the dust praise you? Will it proclaim your faithfulness?Hear, Lord, and be merciful to me; Lord, be my help.”
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Psalms 55:3
because of what my enemy is saying, because of the threats of the wicked; for they bring down suffering on me and assail me in their anger.
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Job 6:4
The arrows of the Almighty are in me, my spirit drinks in their poison; God’s terrors are marshaled against me.
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Romans 8:35-37
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?As it is written:“ For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
