Proverbs 12:25

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Summary

Proverbs 12:25

Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad.

Heaviness

But

Bible References

Heaviness

The heart knows its own bitterness,
And a stranger does not share its joy.

A joyful heart makes a cheerful face,
But when the heart is sad, the spirit is broken.

A joyful heart is good medicine,
But a broken spirit dries up the bones.

The spirit of a man can endure his sickness,
But as for a broken spirit who can bear it?

And it came about in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, that wine was before him, and I took up the wine and gave it to the king. Now I had not been sad in his presence.

I am bent over and greatly bowed down;
I go mourning all day long.

Why are you in despair, O my soul?

And why have you become disturbed within me?

Hope in God, for I shall yet praise Him,

The help of my countenance and my God.

And He *took with Him Peter and James and John, and began to be very distressed and troubled.

But

There is one who speaks rashly like the thrusts of a sword,
But the tongue of the wise brings healing.

A man has joy in an apt answer,
And how delightful is a timely word!

Pleasant words are a honeycomb,

Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones.

Like apples of gold in settings of silver
Is a word spoken in right circumstances.

Oil and perfume make the heart glad,

So a man’s counsel is sweet to his friend.

The Lord God has given Me the tongue of disciples,
That I may know how to sustain the weary one with a word.
He awakens Me morning by morning,
He awakens My ear to listen as a disciple.

The Lord answered the angel who was speaking with me with gracious words, comforting words.

For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears; not so that you would be made sorrowful, but that you might know the love which I have especially for you.