All the days of the afflicted are evil, but gladness of heart is a continual feast.

A merry heart does good like medicine, but a broken spirit dries the bones.

For our rejoicing is this: the testimony of our conscience, that we conducted ourselves in the world in simplicity and godly sincerity, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, and more abundantly toward you.

Anxiety in the heart of man causes depression, but a good word makes it glad.

The spirit of a man will sustain him in sickness, but who can bear a stricken spirit?

Therefore the king said to me, Why is your face sad, since you are not sick? This is nothing but sorrow of heart. Then I was very much afraid,

Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me.

so that, on the contrary, you ought rather to forgive and encourage him, lest perhaps such a one be swallowed up with too much sorrow.

For godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, not to be regretted; but the sorrow of the world produces death.