Proverbs 17:22 Cross References - ACV

²² A cheerful heart is a good medicine, but a broken spirit dries up the bones.

¹⁵ My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue clings to my jaws, and thou have brought me into the dust of death.

³ When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all the day long. ⁴ For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me. My moisture was changed as with the drought of summer. Selah.

³ For my days consume away like smoke, and my bones are burned as a firebrand. ⁴ My heart is smitten like grass, and withered, for I forget to eat my bread. ⁵ Because of the voice of my groaning my bones cling to my flesh.

²⁵ Heaviness in the heart of a man makes it droop, but a good word makes it glad.

¹³ A glad heart makes a cheerful countenance, but by sorrow of heart the spirit is broken.

¹⁴ The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity, but a broken spirit who can bear?

⁷ Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart, for God has already accepted thy works. ⁸ Let thy garments be always white, and let not thy head lack oil. ⁹ Live joyfully with the wife whom thou love all the days of thy life of vanity, which he has given thee under the sun, all thy days of vanity. For that is thy portion in life, and in thy labor in which thou labor under the sun.

² through whom also we have access by faith for this grace in which we stand, and we take pride in hope of the glory of God. ³ And not only so, but we also take pride in our tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces perseverance, ⁴ and perseverance, character, and character, hope. ⁵ And hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit that was given to us.

⁷ so that instead, for you rather to forgive and encourage, lest perhaps such a man would be swallowed up with too much sorrow.

¹⁰ For sorrow toward God works repentance for salvation without regret, but the sorrow of the world works death.