Thematic Bible: Prevention and cure of


Thematic Bible



Is there no balm in Gilead: is there no physician there? why then is 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 was exceedingly severe: yet in his disease he sought not to the LORD, but to the physicians.

But when Jesus heard that, he said to them, They that are in health need not a physician, but they that are sick.

And he said to them, Ye will surely say to me this proverb, Physician, heal thyself: whatever we have heard done in Capernaum, do also here in thy country.

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


Is there no balm in Gilead: is there no physician there? why then is 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 shalt thou use many medicines; for thou shalt not be cured.


There is none to plead thy cause, that thou mayest be bound up: thou hast 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 their waters they issued out of the sanctuary: and its fruit shall be for food, and its leaf for medicine.