Proverbs 15:13
If you're happy inside, you'll have a cheerful face, but if you're sad, you look crushed.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.
In Context
12Scoffers don't like to be corrected, so they don't go to the wise for advice.
14An insightful mind looks for knowledge, but stupid people feed on foolishness.
Cross References
Proverbs 12:25If you're anxious, you're weighed down, but an encouraging word will cheer you up.
Proverbs 17:22A cheerful attitude is like good medicine, but discouragement makes you sick.
John 14:1“Don't be anxious. Trust in God, trust in me as well.
2 Corinthians 2:7so now you should forgive him and be kind to him. Otherwise he may sink into despair.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 15:13
12 A scorner loveth not one that reproveth him: neither will he go unto the wise. A scorner is one that not only makes a jest of God and religion, but bids defiance to the methods employed for his conviction and reformation, and, as an evidence of that, 1. He cannot endure the checks of his own conscience, nor will he suffer it to deal plainly with him: He loves not to reprove him (so some read it); he cannot endure to retire into his own heart and commune seriously with that, will not admit of any free thought or… Read the whole commentary →