Proverbs 15:15 Cross References

Proverbs 15:15

15: For the poor, every day brings trouble; for the happy heart, life is a continual feast.

A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a broken spirit saps a person's strength.

Our hearts ache, but we always have joy. We are poor, but we give spiritual riches to others. We own nothing, and yet we have everything.

Be glad for all God is planning for you. Be patient in trouble, and always be prayerful.

So now we can rejoice in our wonderful new relationship with God--all because of what our Lord Jesus Christ has done for us in making us friends of God.

Because of our faith, Christ has brought us into this place of highest privilege where we now stand, and we confidently and joyfully look forward to sharing God's glory.
We can rejoice, too, when we run into problems and trials, for we know that they are good for us--they help us learn to endure.

So be truly glad! There is wonderful joy ahead, even though it is necessary for you to endure many trials for a while.
These trials are only to test your faith, to show that it is strong and pure. It is being tested as fire tests and purifies gold--and your faith is far more precious to God than mere gold. So if your faith remains strong after being tried by fiery trials, it will bring you much praise and glory and honor on the day when Jesus Christ is revealed to the whole world.
You love him even though you have never seen him. Though you do not see him, you trust him; and even now you are happy with a glorious, inexpressible joy.

Around midnight, Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening.

You can be sure that the more we suffer for Christ, the more God will shower us with his comfort through Christ.

Discretion is a life-giving fountain to those who possess it, but discipline is wasted on fools.

Instead, be very glad--because these trials will make you partners with Christ in his suffering, and afterward you will have the wonderful joy of sharing his glory when it is displayed to all the world.

Jacob replied, "I have lived for 130 hard years, but I am still not nearly as old as many of my ancestors."

His family all tried to comfort him, but it was no use. "I will die in mourning for my son," he would say, and then begin to weep.

We can say with confidence and a clear conscience that we have been honest and sincere in all our dealings. We have depended on God's grace, not on our own earthly wisdom. That is how we have acted toward everyone, and especially toward you.

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