Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Pro 17:22 — A merry heart doeth good [like] a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
Phrase of Scripture   Correlating Passages TSK Help

merry   Pro 12:25; Pro 15:13; Pro 18:14; Ecc 9:7-9; Rom 5:2-5
like a medicine   Heb. to a medicine
a broken   Psa 22:15; Psa 32:3,4; Psa 102:3-5; 2Cr 2:7; 2Cr 7:10
Correlating Passages
merry
Pro 12:25 Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad.
Pro 15:13 A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.
Pro 18:14 The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?
Ecc 9:7 Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.
Ecc 9:8 Let thy garments be always white; and let thy head lack no ointment.
Ecc 9:9 Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that [is] thy portion in [this] life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun.
Rom 5:2 By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
Rom 5:3 And not only [so], but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;
Rom 5:4 And patience, experience; and experience, hope:
Rom 5:5 And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.
a broken
Psa 22:15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.
Psa 32:3 When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
Psa 32:4 For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.
Psa 102:3 For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.
Psa 102:4 My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.
Psa 102:5 By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin.
2Cr 2:7 So that contrariwise ye [ought] rather to forgive [him], and comfort [him], lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.
2Cr 7:10 For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.

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Scott, Thomas. "Proverbs 17:22," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
<http://www.blueletterbible.org/tsk_b/Pro/17/22.html>.

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