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Proverbs 12:25
Anxiety in a man’s heart weighs it down, but a kind word makes it glad.

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Proverbs 12:26
A righteous person is cautious in friendship, but the way of the wicked leads them astray.

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Proverbs 13:1
A wise son listens to his father’s instruction, but a scoffer doesn’t listen to rebuke.

Proverbs 13:2
By the fruit of his lips, a man enjoys good things, but the unfaithful crave violence.

Proverbs 13:3
He who guards his mouth guards his soul. One who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.

Proverbs 13:4
The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing, but the desire of the diligent shall be fully satisfied.

Proverbs 13:5
A righteous man hates lies, but a wicked man brings shame and disgrace.

Proverbs 13:6
Righteousness guards the way of integrity, but wickedness overthrows the sinner.

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Proverbs 15:13
A glad heart makes a cheerful face, but an aching heart breaks the spirit.

Proverbs 18:14
A man’s spirit will sustain him in sickness, but a crushed spirit, who can bear?

Isaiah 50:4
The Lord Yahweh has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary. He awakens morning by morning, he awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.

Proverbs 17:22
A cheerful heart makes good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

2 Corinthians 2:7
so that, on the contrary, you should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his excessive sorrow.

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Ezekiel 4:16
Moreover he said to me, “Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem. They will eat bread by weight, and with fearfulness. They will drink water by measure, and in dismay;

Ezekiel 12:18
“Son of man, eat your bread with quaking, and drink your water with trembling and with fearfulness.

Ezekiel 12:19
Tell the people of the land, ‘The Lord Yahweh says concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem and the land of Israel: “They will eat their bread with fearfulness and drink their water in dismay, that her land may be desolate, and all that is therein, because of the violence of all those who dwell therein.

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