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Proverbs 15:13
A joyful heart makes a face cheerful, but a sad heart produces a broken spirit.
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Proverbs 12:25
Anxiety in a person’s heart weighs it down, but a good word cheers it up.
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Proverbs 18:14
A person’s spirit can endure sickness, but who can survive a broken spirit?
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2 Corinthians 7 10
For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, but worldly grief produces death.
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Ecclesiastes 9:7-9
Go, eat your bread with pleasure, and drink your wine with a cheerful heart, for God has already accepted your works.Let your clothes be white all the time, and never let oil be lacking on your head.Enjoy life with the wife you love all the days of your fleeting life, which has been given to you under the sun, all your fleeting days. For that is your portion in life and in your struggle under the sun.
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Romans 5:2-5
We have also obtained access through him by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we boast in the hope of the glory of God.And not only that, but we also boast in our afflictions, because we know that affliction produces endurance,endurance produces proven character, and proven character produces hope.This hope will not disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
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Psalms 22:15
My strength is dried up like baked clay; my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You put me into the dust of death.
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Psalms 32:3-4
When I kept silent, my bones became brittle from my groaning all day long.For day and night your hand was heavy on me; my strength was drained as in the summer’s heat. Selah
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Psalms 102:3-5
For my days vanish like smoke, and my bones burn like a furnace.My heart is suffering, withered like grass; I even forget to eat my food.Because of the sound of my groaning, my flesh sticks to my bones.
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2 Corinthians 2 7
As a result, you should instead forgive and comfort him. Otherwise, he may be overwhelmed by excessive grief.
