Pro 15:15
All the days of the afflicted {are} evil: but he that is of a merry heart {hath} a continual feast.
King James Version
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As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and {yet} possessing all things.
Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;
A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.
A merry heart doeth good {like} a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones. {like: or, to}
And not only {so}, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement. {atonement: or, reconciliation}
By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:
For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ.
And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them.
But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.
Understanding {is} a wellspring of life unto him that hath it: but the instruction of fools {is} folly.
And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said, For I will go down into the grave unto my son mourning. Thus his father wept for him.
For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.
For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.
And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage {are} an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.
Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad.
For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.