Proverbs 18:14

A resilient spirit can endure hardship, but a crushed spirit is unbearable. Inner spiritual strength is vital, especially in suffering.

Cross-references · 25

• Prov 15:13A glad heart makes a cheerful face; but an aching heart breaks the spirit.
• Prov 17:22A cheerful heart makes good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
• 2 Cor 12:9–10He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.
• 1 Pet 1:6Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been put to grief in various trials,
• Ps 147:3He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.
• Jas 1:2Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations,
• 2 Cor 2:7so 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.
• Ps 77:2–3In 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.
• Mark 14:33–34He took with him Peter, James, and John, and began to be greatly troubled and distressed.
• Job 6:4For the arrows of the Almighty are within me. My spirit drinks up their poison. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.
• Ps 88:14–16Yahweh, why do you reject my soul? Why do you hide your face from me?
• Job 7:14–15then you scare me with dreams, and terrify me through visions:
• Job 2:7–10So Satan went out from the presence of Yahweh, and struck Job with painful sores from the sole of his foot to his head.
• Ps 42:10–11As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me, while they continually ask me, “Where is your God?”
• Ps 38:2–4For your arrows have pierced me, your hand presses hard on me.
• Rom 5:3–5Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces perseverance;
• Ps 55:3Because 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.
• Rom 8:35–37Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
• Ps 55:5Fearfulness and trembling have come on me. Horror has overwhelmed me.
• Ps 30:9–10“What profit is there in my destruction, if I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise you? Shall it declare your truth?
• Job 1:20–21Then Job arose, and tore his robe, and shaved his head, and fell down on the ground, and worshiped.
• 2 Cor 1:12For 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.
• Ps 32:3–4When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.
• Ps 109:22for I am poor and needy. My heart is wounded within me.
• Job 10:15–17If I am wicked, woe to me. If I am righteous, I still shall not lift up my head, being filled with disgrace, and conscious of my affliction.

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