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Proverbs 15:13
A happy heart makes the face cheerful, but heartache crushes the spirit. (niv)
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Proverbs 12:25
Anxiety weighs down the heart, but a kind word cheers it up. (niv)
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Proverbs 18:14
The human spirit can endure in sickness, but a crushed spirit who can bear? (niv)
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2 Corinthians 7 10
Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret, but worldly sorrow brings death. (niv)
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Ecclesiastes 9:7-9
Go, eat your food with gladness, and drink your wine with a joyful heart, for God has already approved what you do.Always be clothed in white, and always anoint your head with oil.Enjoy life with your wife, whom you love, all the days of this meaningless life that God has given you under the sun— all your meaningless days. For this is your lot in life and in your toilsome labor under the sun. (niv)
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Romans 5:2-5
through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we boast in the hope of the glory of God.Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance;perseverance, character; and character, hope.And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us. (niv)
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Psalms 22:15
My mouth is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth; you lay me in the dust of death. (niv)
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Psalms 32:3-4
When I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.For day and night your hand was heavy on me; my strength was sapped as in the heat of summer. (niv)
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Psalms 102:3-5
For my days vanish like smoke; my bones burn like glowing embers.My heart is blighted and withered like grass; I forget to eat my food.In my distress I groan aloud and am reduced to skin and bones. (niv)
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2 Corinthians 2 7
Now instead, you ought to forgive and comfort him, so that he will not be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow. (niv)