Bible Cross References
merry
Proverbs 12:25
Worry can rob you of happiness, but kind words will cheer you up.
Proverbs 15:13
When people are happy, they smile, but when they are sad, they look depressed.
Proverbs 18:14
Your will to live can sustain you when you are sick, but if you lose it, your last hope is gone.
Ecclesiastes 9:7-9
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Go ahead---eat your food and be happy; drink your wine and be cheerful. It's all right with God.
8
Always look happy and cheerful.
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Enjoy life with the one you love, as long as you live the useless life that God has given you in this world. Enjoy every useless day of it, because that is all you will get for all your trouble.
Romans 5:2-5
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He has brought us by faith into this experience of God's grace, in which we now live. And so we boast of the hope we have of sharing God's glory!
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We also boast of our troubles, because we know that trouble produces endurance,
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endurance brings God's approval, and his approval creates hope.
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This hope does not disappoint us, for God has poured out his love into our hearts by means of the Holy Spirit, who is God's gift to us.
a broken
Psalm 22:15
My throat is as dry as dust, and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You have left me for dead in the dust.
Psalm 32:3
When I did not confess my sins, I was worn out from crying all day long.
Psalm 32:4
Day and night you punished me, LORD; my strength was completely drained, as moisture is dried up by the summer heat.
Psalm 102:3-5
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My life is disappearing like smoke; my body is burning like fire.
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I am beaten down like dry grass; I have lost my desire for food.
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I groan aloud; I am nothing but skin and bones.
2 Corinthians 2:7
Now, however, you should forgive him and encourage him, in order to keep him from becoming so sad as to give up completely.
2 Corinthians 7:10
For the sadness that is used by God brings a change of heart that leads to salvation---and there is no regret in that! But sadness that is merely human causes death.