Thematic Bible: Prevention and cure of


Thematic Bible



Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then has not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?

And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.

Luke, the beloved physician, and Demas, greet you.

And Asa in the thirty and ninth year of his reign was diseased in his feet, until his disease became severe: yet in his disease he sought not to the LORD, but to the physicians.

But when Jesus heard that, he said unto them, They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick.

And he said unto them, You will surely say unto me this proverb, Physician, heal yourself: whatsoever we have heard done in Capernaum, do also here in your country.

And Jesus answering said unto them, They that are whole need not a physician; but they that are sick.


Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then has not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?

Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin, the daughter of Egypt: in vain shall you use many medicines; for you shall not be cured.


There is none to plead your cause, that you may be bound up: you have no healing medicines.

And by the river upon its bank, on this side and on that side, shall grow all trees for food, whose leaf shall not fade, neither shall its fruit be consumed: it shall bring forth new fruit according to its months, because the waters flowed out of the sanctuary: and its fruit shall be for food, and its leaf for medicine.