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Proverbs 12:25

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Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad.
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  1. Proverbs 16:24Rank 1 from verse 25
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    24Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

  2. Proverbs 15:13Rank 2 from verse 25
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    13A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.

  3. Proverbs 17:22Rank 3 from verse 25
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    22A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.

  4. Isaiah 50:4Rank 4 from verse 25
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    4The Lord God hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned.

  5. Proverbs 15:23Rank 5 from verse 25
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    23A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in due season, how good is it!

  6. Proverbs 12:18Rank 6 from verse 25
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    18There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.

  7. Proverbs 27:9Rank 7 from verse 25
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    9Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so doth the sweetness of a man’s friend by hearty counsel.

  8. Psalms 42:11Rank 8 from verse 25
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    11Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

  9. Zechariah 1:13Rank 9 from verse 25
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    13And the Lord answered the angel that talked with me with good words and comfortable words.

  10. Proverbs 18:14Rank 10 from verse 25
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    14The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?

  11. Proverbs 25:11Rank 11 from verse 25
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    11A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.

  12. 2 Corinthians 2:4–7Rank 12 from verse 25
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    4For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.

    5But if any have caused grief, he hath not grieved me, but in part: that I may not overcharge you all.

    6Sufficient to such a man is this punishment, which was inflicted of many.

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

  13. Mark 14:33–34Rank 13 from verse 25
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    33And he taketh with him Peter and James and John, and began to be sore amazed, and to be very heavy;

    34And saith unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful unto death: tarry ye here, and watch.

  14. Proverbs 14:10Rank 14 from verse 25
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    10The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy.

  15. Psalms 38:6Rank 15 from verse 25
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    6I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.

  16. Nehemiah 2:1–2Rank 16 from verse 25
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    1AND it came to pass in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, that wine was before him: and I took up the wine, and gave it unto the king. Now I had not been beforetime sad in his presence.

    2Wherefore 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,

  17. Proverbs 15:15Rank 17 from verse 25
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    15All the days of the afflicted are evil: but he that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast.

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Proverbs 12:25

COMBINED MEANING

in

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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

heart

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Sense 1: The bodily organ. Sense 2: The inward person: the mind, will, affections, conscience, or moral character.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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man

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1. A human being or person. 2. Mankind collectively. 3. A male person.

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maketh

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Third-person singular present form of make (to form, create, produce, cause, appoint, perform, or render into a stated condition).

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COMBINED MEANING

stoop

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Sense 1: To bend or bow downward. Sense 2: Figuratively, to sink, submit, or be humbled.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

but

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Sense 1: However; marking contrast or qualification. Sense 2: Except or unless; excluding all others or alternatives. Sense 3: Only; no more than what follows.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

good

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Sense 1: Right, morally upright, beneficial, pleasing, useful, suitable, sound, favourable, or excellent. Sense 2: A good thing, benefit, welfare, possession, or goods. Sense 3: In ‘make good,’ to repair, repay, fulfil, establish, or prove.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

word

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Sense 1: A spoken or written expression, saying, message, command, promise, report, or matter. Sense 2: God's revealed word.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

glad

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Pleased; affected with pleasure or moderate joy; moderately happy.

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12:24The hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the slothful shall be under tribute.

12:25Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad.

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12:26The righteous is more excellent than his neighbour: but the way of the wicked seduceth them.

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