¹³ A glad heart maketh a cheerful countenance; But by sorrow of heart the spirit is broken.

²² A cheerful heart is a good medicine; But a broken spirit drieth up the bones.

²⁵ Heaviness in the heart of a man maketh it stoop; But a good word maketh it glad.

¹⁴ The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; But a broken spirit who can bear?

¹⁵ All the days of the afflicted are evil; But he that is of a cheerful heart `hath' a continual feast.

² And the king said unto me, Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou art not sick? this is nothing else but sorrow of heart. Then I was very sore afraid.

¹ Let not your heart be troubled: believe in God, believe also in me.

¹² For our glorifying is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.

⁷ so that contrariwise ye should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his overmuch sorrow.

¹⁰ For godly sorrow worketh repentance unto salvation, `a repentance' which bringeth no regret: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.