Thematic Bible: Prevention and cure of


Thematic Bible



Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then isn't the health of the daughter of my people recovered?

Joseph commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father; and the physicians embalmed Israel.

Luke, the beloved physician, and Demas greet you.

In the thirty-ninth year of his reign Asa was diseased in his feet; his disease was exceeding great: yet in his disease he did not seek the LORD, but to the physicians.

When he heard it, he said to them, "Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick do.

He said to them, "Doubtless you will tell me this parable, 'Physician, heal yourself. Whatever we have heard done at Capernaum, do also here in your hometown.'"

Jesus answered them, "Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick do.


Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then isn't the health of the daughter of my people recovered?

Go up into Gilead, and take balm, virgin daughter of Egypt: in vain do you use many medicines; there is no healing for you.


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

By the river on its bank, on this side and on that side, shall grow every tree for food, whose leaf shall not wither, neither shall its fruit fail: it shall bring forth new fruit every month, because its waters issue out of the sanctuary; and its fruit shall be for food, and its leaf for healing."