Proverbs 12:25
Proverbs · Old Testament · Chapter 12
“Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad.”Proverbs 12:25
What Does Proverbs 12:25 Mean?
Proverbs 12:25 is found in the book of Proverbs, chapter 12, verse 25 of the Old Testament. This verse connects to 20 other passages through cross-references, placing it within a rich network of biblical meaning.
Cross-References (20)
These passages are connected to Proverbs 12:25 through shared themes, quotations, or prophetic fulfillment.
Proverbs 17:22“A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.”Proverbs 16:24“Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.”Proverbs 15:13“A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.”Isaiah 50:4“The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned.”Proverbs 15:23“A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in due season, how good is it!”Psalms 42:11“Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.”Proverbs 12:18“There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.”Proverbs 27:9“Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so doth the sweetness of a man’s friend by hearty counsel.”Zechariah 1:13“And the LORD answered the angel that talked with me with good words and comfortable words.”Proverbs 18:14“The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?”Proverbs 25:11“A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.”Nehemiah 2:1“And it came to pass in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, that wine was before him: and I took up the wine, and gave it unto the king. Now I had not been beforetime sad in his presence.”Psalms 38:6“I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.”Proverbs 14:10“The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy.”Mark 14:33“And he taketh with him Peter and James and John, and began to be sore amazed, and to be very heavy;”2 Corinthians 2:4“For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.”Proverbs 15:15“All the days of the afflicted are evil: but he that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast.”2 Chronicles 32:8“With him is an arm of flesh; but with us is the LORD our God to help us, and to fight our battles. And the people rested themselves upon the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.”Philippians 2:26“For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness, because that ye had heard that he had been sick.”Jeremiah 52:32“And spake kindly unto him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon,”
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