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Proverbs 15:13
A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.
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Proverbs 16:24
Pleasant words[ are as] an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
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Isaiah 50:4
The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to[ him that is] weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned.
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Proverbs 15:23
A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word[ spoken] in due season, how good[ is it]!
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Proverbs 17:22
A merry heart doeth good[ like] a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
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Proverbs 12:18
There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise[ is] health.
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Proverbs 27:9
Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so[ doth] the sweetness of a man’s friend by hearty counsel.
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2 Corinthians 2 4-2 Corinthians 2 7
For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.But if any have caused grief, he hath not grieved me, but in part: that I may not overcharge you all.Sufficient to such a man[ is] this punishment, which[ was inflicted] of many.So that contrariwise ye[ ought] rather to forgive[ him], and comfort[ him], lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.
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Zechariah 1:13
And the LORD answered the angel that talked with me[ with] good words[ and] comfortable words.
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Proverbs 18:14
The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?
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Psalms 38:6
I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.
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Psalms 42:11
Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him,[ who is] the health of my countenance, and my God.
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Proverbs 14:10
The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy.
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Proverbs 15:15
All the days of the afflicted[ are] evil: but he that is of a merry heart[ hath] a continual feast.
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Proverbs 25:11
A word fitly spoken[ is like] apples of gold in pictures of silver.
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Nehemiah 2:1-2
And it came to pass in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king,[ that] wine[ was] before him: and I took up the wine, and gave[ it] unto the king. Now I had not been[ beforetime] sad in his presence.Wherefore the king said unto me, Why[ is] thy countenance sad, seeing thou[ art] not sick? this[ is] nothing[ else] but sorrow of heart. Then I was very sore afraid,
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Mark 14:33-34
And he taketh with him Peter and James and John, and began to be sore amazed, and to be very heavy;And saith unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful unto death: tarry ye here, and watch.