Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Disease » Prevention and cure of » Medicine
Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no healer there? Why, then, has the healing of the daughter of my people not been restored?
Go up [to] Gilead and take balm, O virgin of the daughter of Egypt. {In vain} you make use of many medicines; there is no healing for you.
A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a downcast spirit will dry out bones.
There is no [one who] pleads your cause, for [your] boil there is no healing for you.
And along the stream will go up on its banks {from both sides} every tree {producing food}; its leaf will not wither and it will not cease [producing] its fruit. {Every month} it will bear early fruit, for its waters [are] going out from the sanctuary, and its fruit will be as food, and its leaf for healing."
Disease » Instances of » Remedies used
Go up [to] Gilead and take balm, O virgin of the daughter of Egypt. {In vain} you make use of many medicines; there is no healing for you.
And Isaiah said, "Let them {take} a lump of figs, and let them rub [it] on the boil {so that} he may recover."
A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a downcast spirit will dry out bones.
There is no [one who] pleads your cause, for [your] boil there is no healing for you.
Diseases » Medicine used for curing
From the sole of the foot and up to [the] head there is no health in it; bruise and sore and bleeding wound have not been cleansed, and they have not been bound up and not softened with the oil.
A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a downcast spirit will dry out bones.
Heart » Merry hearts
A heart of gladness will make good {countenance}, but in sorrow of heart a spirit is broken.
A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a downcast spirit will dry out bones.
Joy » Earthly » Innocent mirth
A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a downcast spirit will dry out bones.
Go--eat your food with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart! For God already has approved your deeds.
All of the people went to eat, to drink, to send a share, and to have great joy because they understood the words that they had made known to them.
And thanksgiving and [the] sound of merrymakers will come out from them, and I will make them numerous, and they will not be few. And I will make them honored, and they will not be lowly.
because this son of mine was dead, and is alive again! He was lost and is found!' And they began to celebrate.
Prevention and cure of diseases » Medicine
Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no healer there? Why, then, has the healing of the daughter of my people not been restored?
Go up [to] Gilead and take balm, O virgin of the daughter of Egypt. {In vain} you make use of many medicines; there is no healing for you.
A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a downcast spirit will dry out bones.
There is no [one who] pleads your cause, for [your] boil there is no healing for you.
And along the stream will go up on its banks {from both sides} every tree {producing food}; its leaf will not wither and it will not cease [producing] its fruit. {Every month} it will bear early fruit, for its waters [are] going out from the sanctuary, and its fruit will be as food, and its leaf for healing."
Social duties » Brotherly love » Cheerfulness, the duty of
I have said these [things] to you so that in me you may have peace. In the world you have affliction, but have courage! I have conquered the world."
Verse Concepts
Bad ThingsComfortingAfflicted SaintsBad LanguageAdultsAfflictions, In Christian LivingChristmasAdversityBecoming A ChristianBecoming A ParentHuman EmotionBecoming More Like ChristBeing A ParentBeing A SoldierBeing AfraidBeing An EncouragerBeing Betrayeddiscouragementdiscipleship, benefits ofdefeatHeart, HumanKingdomsKnowledge, Of Jesus ChristOptimismPeace, Believers Experience OfPeace, Divine In NtProtectionSalvation, Nature OfSpiritual Warfare, ArmourSpiritual Warfare, As ConflictStressVictory, Over Spiritual ForcesOvercoming Discouragement
Jesus Christ, Temptation OfPeace Of MindPower Of Christ, ShownCheerfulnessDistressPromised VictoryOvercomersEncouragement In LifeGod's Help In DiscouragementAbiding In ChristChrist OvercomingThe World Without GodMental IllnessCourageHuman Nature, OvercomingSufferingHope In Hard TimesOvercomingPeace And ComfortLife StrugglesAntidepressantsOvercoming Hard TimesThe WorldStaying Strong During Hard TimesHardshipStrugglesGetting Through Hard TimesOvercoming Adversityproblemsexperiencetrailscheerleading
A heart of gladness will make good {countenance}, but in sorrow of heart a spirit is broken.
A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a downcast spirit will dry out bones.
Therefore keep up your courage, men, for I believe God that it will be like this--according to {the} way it was told to me.
Spirit/souls » Broken spirits
A heart of gladness will make good {countenance}, but in sorrow of heart a spirit is broken.
A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a downcast spirit will dry out bones.