Proverbs 18:14

Blessed is a person who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

For he wounds and binds up. He injures and his hands make whole.

Then he said to them, “Go your way. Eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to him for whom nothing is prepared, for today is holy to our Lord. Don’t be grieved, for the joy of Yahweh is your strength.”

Yahweh is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves those who have a crushed spirit.

He said, “If you will diligently listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, and will do that which is right in his eyes, and will pay attention to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you, which I have put on the Egyptians; for I am Yahweh who heals you.”

The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me, because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and release to those who are bound,

“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed,

They therefore departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer dishonor for Jesus’ name.

When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, “Then God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance to life!”

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. O God, you will not despise a broken and contrite heart.

through whom we also have our access by faith into this grace in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against Yahweh.” Nathan said to David, “Yahweh also has put away your sin. You will not die.

For your arrows have pierced me, your hand presses hard on me.

Joy comes to a man with the reply of his mouth. How good is a word at the right time!

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.

to provide for those who mourn in Zion, to give to them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness, that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of Yahweh, that he may be glorified.

Even so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner repenting.”

But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.

rejoicing in hope; enduring in troubles; continuing steadfastly in prayer;

Because it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in him, but also to suffer on his behalf,

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the assembly,

But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.

All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. He said, “For I will go down to Sheol to my son, mourning.” His father wept for him.

She said to them, “Don’t call me Naomi. Call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.

Terrors have turned on me. They chase my honor as the wind. My welfare has passed away as a cloud.

Notwithstanding my right I am considered a liar. My wound is incurable, though I am without disobedience.’

Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”

Relent, Yahweh! How long? Have compassion on your servants!

He sends his word, and heals them, and delivers them from their graves.

She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her. Happy is everyone who retains her.

With my soul I have desired you in the night. Yes, with my spirit within me I will seek you earnestly; for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.

For the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy, says: “I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

‘Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them; and I will reveal to them abundance of peace and truth.

“I will seek that which was lost, and will bring back that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick; but I will destroy the fat and the strong. I will feed them in justice.” ’

yet I will rejoice in Yahweh. I will be joyful in the God of my salvation!

Rejoice, and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven. For that is how they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

“Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, so that there may come times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord,

Paul, looking steadfastly at the council, said, “Brothers, I have lived before God in all good conscience until today.”

For we are not as so many, peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.

Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted.

And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

Beloved, if our hearts don’t condemn us, we have boldness toward God;

Don’t be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.

She was in bitterness of soul, and prayed to Yahweh, weeping bitterly.

An arm of flesh is with him, but Yahweh our God is with us to help us and to fight our battles.” The people rested themselves on the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.

The king said to me, “Why is your face sad, since you are not sick? This is nothing else but sorrow of heart.” Then I was very much afraid.

His archers surround me. He splits my kidneys apart, and does not spare. He pours out my bile on the ground.

I said, “Yahweh, have mercy on me! Heal me, for I have sinned against you.”

I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up. While I suffer your terrors, I am distracted.

who forgives all your sins, who heals all your diseases,

It will be health to your body, and nourishment to your bones.

The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life. He who is wise wins souls.

There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.

A glad heart makes a cheerful face, but an aching heart breaks the spirit.

All the days of the afflicted are wretched, but one who has a cheerful heart enjoys a continual feast.

Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

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

Yahweh, in trouble they have visited you. They poured out a prayer when your chastening was on them.

You will see it, and your heart shall rejoice, and your bones will flourish like the tender grass. Yahweh’s hand will be known among his servants; and he will have indignation against his enemies.

He has caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my kidneys.

But to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings. You will go out, and leap like calves of the stall.

came to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. He set him on his own animal, brought him to an inn, and took care of him.

We also speak these things, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things.

For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord.

Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, and in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.

You are witnesses with God how holy, righteously, and blamelessly we behaved ourselves toward you who believe.

For you both had compassion on me in my chains, and joyfully accepted the plundering of your possessions, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and an enduring one in the heavens.

He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.

The heart knows its own bitterness and joy; he will not share these with a stranger.

A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but deceit in it crushes the spirit.

He spoke kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings who were with him in Babylon,

For who among men knows the things of a man, except the spirit of the man, which is in him? Even so, no one knows the things of God, except God’s Spirit.

Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations,

Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved in various trials,

When she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught hold of his feet. Gehazi came near to thrust her away; but the man of God said, “Leave her alone; for her soul is troubled within her; and Yahweh has hidden it from me, and has not told me.”

For the arrows of the Almighty are within me. My spirit drinks up their poison. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.

My soul is also in great anguish. But you, Yahweh—how long?

because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked. For they bring suffering on me. In anger they hold a grudge against me.

Fearfulness and trembling have come on me. Horror has overwhelmed me.

In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord. My hand was stretched out in the night, and didn’t get tired. My soul refused to be comforted.

for I am poor and needy. My heart is wounded within me.

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

For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.

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.

For godly sorrow produces repentance to salvation, which brings no regret. But the sorrow of the world produces death.