All the days of the afflicted [are] evil, But he who is of a merry heart [has] a continual feast.

A merry heart does good, [like] medicine, But a broken spirit dries the bones.

For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience that we conducted ourselves in the world in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom but by 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 broken spirit?

Therefore the king said to me, "Why [is] your face sad, since you [are] not sick? This [is] nothing but sorrow of heart." So I became dreadfully 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 comfort [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.