THEOSISProverbs 15:13Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
A glad heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by grief of mind the spirit is cast down.
לֵ֣ב שָׂ֭מֵחַ יֵיטִ֣ב פָּנִ֑ים וּבְעַצְּבַת־לֵ֝ב ר֣וּחַ נְכֵאָֽה׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Prov 17:22A joyful mind maketh age flourishing: a sorrowful spirit drieth up the bones.
- Prov 12:25Grief in the heart of a man shall bring him low, but with a good word he shall be made glad.
- Prov 18:14The spirit of a man upholdeth his infirmity: but a spirit that is easily angered, who can bear?
- John 14:1Let not your heart be troubled. You believe in God: believe also in me.
- Prov 15:15All the days of the poor are evil: a secure mind is like a continual feast.
- 2 Cor 7:10For the sorrow that is according to God worketh penance, steadfast unto salvation: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.
- 2 Cor 2:7So that on the contrary, you should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.
- Neh 2:2And the king said to me: Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou dost not appear to be sick? this is not without cause, but some evil, I know not what, is in thy heart. And I was seized with an exceeding great fear: