Proverbs 15:13
A merry heart makes a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.
Updated King James 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
12A scorner loves not one that reproves him: neither will he go unto the wise.
Cross References
Proverbs 12:25Heaviness in the heart of man makes it stoop: but a good word makes it glad.
Proverbs 17:22A merry heart does good like a medicine: but a broken spirit dries the bones.
John 14:1Let not your heart be troubled: all of you believe in God, believe also in me.
2 Corinthians 2:7So that contrariwise all of you ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.
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 →