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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 17:22
A cheerful heart makes good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
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2 Corinthians 12 9-2 Corinthians 12 10
He has said to me,“ My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, and in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.
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James 1:2
Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations,
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Psalms 147:3
He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.
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1 Peter 1 6
Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved in various trials,
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2 Corinthians 2 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.
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Psalms 88:14-16
Yahweh, why do you reject my soul? Why do you hide your face from me?I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up. While I suffer your terrors, I am distracted.Your fierce wrath has gone over me. Your terrors have cut me off.
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Psalms 32:3-4
When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.For day and night your hand was heavy on me. My strength was sapped in the heat of summer. Selah.
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Psalms 77:2-3
In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord. My hand was stretched out in the night, and didn’t get tired. My soul refused to be comforted.I remember God, and I groan. I complain, and my spirit is overwhelmed. Selah.
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Psalms 109:22
for I am poor and needy. My heart is wounded within me.
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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.”
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Psalms 38:2-4
For your arrows have pierced me, your hand presses hard on me.There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation, neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin.For my iniquities have gone over my head. As a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.
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Psalms 42:10-11
As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me, while they continually ask me,“ Where is your God?”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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Romans 5:3-5
Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces perseverance;and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope:and hope doesn’t disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
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Job 2:7-10
So Satan went out from the presence of Yahweh, and struck Job with painful sores from the sole of his foot to his head.He took for himself a potsherd to scrape himself with, and he sat among the ashes.Then his wife said to him,“ Do you still maintain your integrity? Renounce God, and die.”But he said to her,“ You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this Job didn’t sin with his lips.
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Job 1:20-21
Then Job arose, and tore his robe, and shaved his head, and fell down on the ground, and worshiped.He said,“ Naked I came out of my mother’s womb, and naked will I return there. Yahweh gave, and Yahweh has taken away. Blessed be Yahweh’s name.”
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Psalms 55:5
Fearfulness and trembling have come on me. Horror has overwhelmed me.
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Job 10:15-17
If I am wicked, woe to me. If I am righteous, I still will not lift up my head, being filled with disgrace, and conscious of my affliction.If my head is held high, you hunt me like a lion. Again you show yourself powerful to me.You renew your witnesses against me, and increase your indignation on me. Changes and warfare are with me.
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2 Corinthians 1 12
For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.
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Job 7:14-15
then you scare me with dreams, and terrify me through visions:so that my soul chooses strangling, death rather than my bones.
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Psalms 30:9-10
“ What profit is there in my destruction, if I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise you? Shall it declare your truth?Hear, Yahweh, and have mercy on me. Yahweh, be my helper.”
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Psalms 55:3
because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked. For they bring suffering on me. In anger they hold a grudge against me.
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Job 6:4
For the arrows of the Almighty are within me. My spirit drinks up their poison. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.
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Romans 8:35-37
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?Even as it is written,“ For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
