¹³ A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.

²² A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.

²⁵ Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad.

¹⁴ The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?

¹⁵ All the days of the afflicted are evil: but he that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast.

² Wherefore 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: ye believe in God, believe also in me.

¹² For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.

⁷ So that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.

¹⁰ For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.