37 Bible Verses about doctors

Jehovah gave Moses and Aaron these regulations: If any of you have a sore on your skin or a boil or an inflammation that could develop into a dreaded skin disease, you shall be brought to the priest. The priest will examine the sore. If the hairs in it have turned white and the sore appears to be deeper than the surrounding skin, it is a dreaded skin disease, and the priest will pronounce you unclean.read more.
If the sore is white and does not appear to be deeper than the skin around it and the hairs have not turned white, the priest will isolate you for seven days. The priest will examine you again on the seventh day. If in his opinion the sore looks the same and has not spread, he will isolate you for another seven days. The priest will examine you again on the seventh day. If the sore has faded and has not spread, he will pronounce you ritually clean. It is only a sore. You will wash your clothes and be ritually clean. If the sore spreads after the priest has examined you and pronounced you clean, you must return to the priest again. The priest will examine you again. If it has spread, he will pronounce you unclean. It is a dreaded skin disease. If any of you have a dreaded skin disease, you should be brought to the priest. He will examine you. If there is a white sore on your skin that turns the hairs white and is full of pus, it is a chronic skin disease. The priest will pronounce you unclean. There is no need to isolate you. You are obviously unclean. If the skin disease spreads and covers you from head to foot, the priest should examine you again. If he finds that it actually has covered the whole body, he will pronounce you ritually clean. If your whole skin has turned white you are ritually clean. The moment an open sore appears you are unclean. The priest will examine you again. If he sees an open sore, he will pronounce you unclean. An open sore means a dreaded skin disease. You are unclean. When the sore heals and becomes white again, you should go to the priest. He will examine you again. If the sore has turned white you are ritually clean. The priest will pronounce you clean. If you have a boil that has healed and if afterward a white swelling or a reddish-white spot appears where the boil was, you should go to the priest. The priest will examine you. If the spot seems to be deeper than the surrounding skin and the hairs in it have turned white, he will pronounce you unclean. It is a dreaded skin disease that has started in the boil. If the priest examines it and finds that the hairs in it have not turned white and that it is not deeper than the surrounding skin, but is light in color, the priest will isolate you for seven days. If the spot spreads the priest shall pronounce you unclean. You are diseased. If it remains unchanged and does not spread, it is only the scar left from the boil. The priest will pronounce you ritually clean. In case any of you have been burned. If the raw flesh becomes white or reddish-white, the priest will examine it. If the hair on the affected area has turned white and the affected area looks deeper than the rest of the skin, an infectious skin disease has developed in the burn. The priest will pronounce you unclean. It is an infectious skin disease. But if the priest examines it and the hair in it is not white and the affected area is not deeper than the rest of the skin but has faded, the priest must put you in isolation for seven days. The priest will examine you again on the seventh day. If it is spreading it is a dreaded skin disease. The priest will pronounce you unclean. If the spot remains unchanged and does not spread and is light in color, it is not a dreaded skin disease. The priest will pronounce you ritually clean, because it is only a scar from the burn. When any of you, male or female, have a sore on your head or chin, the priest will examine it. If it seems to be deeper than the surrounding skin and the hairs in it are yellowish and thin, it is a dreaded skin disease. He will declare you unclean. If the priest examines you and finds the sore does not appear to be deeper than the surrounding skin, but there are still no healthy hairs in it, he will isolate you for seven days. The priest will examine the sore again on the seventh day. If it has not spread and there are no yellowish hairs in it and it does not seem to be deeper than the surrounding skin, you will shave the head accept the area around the sore. The priest will isolate you for another seven days. The priest will again examine the sore on the seventh day. If it has not spread and does not seem to be deeper than the surrounding skin, he will declare you ritually clean. You will wash your clothes. You will be clean. If the sore spreads after you have been pronounced clean, the priest will examine you again. If the sore has spread, he need not look for yellowish hairs. You are obviously unclean. If in the priest's opinion the sore has not spread and healthy hairs are growing in it, the sore has healed. The priest will pronounce you ritually clean. When you, male or female, have white spots on the skin, the priest shall examine you. If the spots are dull white, it is only a blemish that has broken out on the skin. You are ritually clean. Loss of hair makes one bald not unclean. Hair losses from the forehead or the back of the head do not make one unclean. If a reddish-white sore appears on the bald spot, it is a dreaded skin disease. The priest will examine you. If there is a reddish-white sore, the priest will declare you unclean. You have a dreaded skin disease on your head. If you have a dreaded skin disease, you must wear torn clothes, leave your hair uncombed, cover the lower part of your face, and call out: Unclean, unclean! You remain unclean as long as you have the disease. You must live outside the camp, away from others.

Again Jehovah spoke to Moses and Aaron: Tell the Israelites: 'When a man has a discharge from his body, his discharge is unclean. He is unclean because of the discharge from his body. Whether it is chronic or not makes no difference. He is still unclean.read more.
The man who has a discharge makes everything he lies on or sits on unclean. Those who touch his bed must wash their clothes and their bodies. They will be unclean until evening. Those who sit on anything he sat on must wash their clothes and their bodies. They will be unclean until evening. Those who touch a man who has a discharge must wash their clothes and their bodies. They will be unclean until evening. Should a man who has a discharge spit on anyone who is clean, the person he spits on must wash his clothes and his body. He will be unclean until evening. When a man who has a discharge sits on a saddle, it becomes unclean. Those who carry such things must wash their clothes and their bodies. They will be unclean until evening. If a man who has a discharge touches anyone without first rinsing his hands, the person he touched must wash his clothes and his body. He will be unclean until evening. When a man who has a discharge touches pottery, it must be broken. When he touches a wooden bucket it must be rinsed. When a man's discharge stops, he must wait seven days to be cleansed. He must wash his clothes and his body in fresh water. Then he will be clean. He must take two mourning doves or two pigeons and come into Jehovah's presence at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting on the eighth day. He will give these birds to the priest. The priest will sacrifice one as an offering for sin and the other as a burnt offering. Thus in Jehovah's presence, the priest will pay compensation for the wrongdoing and make peace with Jehovah for the man who had a discharge. If a man has an emission of semen, he must bathe his whole body. He will be unclean until evening. Any clothes or any leather with semen on it must be washed. It will be unclean until evening. When a man has sexual intercourse with a woman and has an emission of semen, they must wash themselves. They will be unclean until evening. When a woman has her monthly period, she will be unclean for seven days. Those who touch her will be unclean until evening. Everything she lies on or sits on during her period will be unclean. Those who touch her bed must wash their clothes and their bodies. They will be unclean until evening. Those who touch anything she sits on must wash their clothes and their bodies. They will be unclean until evening. If her blood touches anything on the bed or anything she sits on, it will be unclean until evening. If a man has sexual intercourse with her while she has her period, he will be unclean for seven days. Any bed he lies on will become unclean. When a woman has a discharge of blood for many days other than her monthly period, she is unclean. If her period lasts longer than usual, she will be unclean as long as she has a discharge. It is similar to her period. As long as she has a discharge, any bed she lies on or anything she sits on is unclean. It is similar to her period. Those who touch these things are unclean and must wash their clothes and their bodies. They will be unclean until evening. When her discharge stops she must wait seven days. After that she will be clean. She must take two mourning doves or two pigeons on the eighth day and bring them to the priest at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting. The priest will offer one as an offering for sin and the other as a burnt offering. So in Jehovah's presence the priest will pay compensation for wrongdoing and make peace with Jehovah for the woman who had an unclean discharge.' You must separate the Israelites from anything that keeps them from being presentable to me. Otherwise they will die. This is because they defile my tent, which is among them, and make it unclean. These are the instructions for any man, who has a discharge or an emission of semen that makes him unclean, for any woman who has her period, for any man or woman who has a discharge, or for any man who has sexual intercourse with a woman when she is unclean.

From the bottom of your feet to the top of your head there is no healthy spot left on your body. You have only bruises, sores, and fresh wounds. They have not been cleansed, bandaged, or soothed with oil.

He said: If you will listen carefully to Jehovah your God and do what he considers right, if you pay attention to his commands and obey all his laws, I will never make you suffer any of the diseases I made the Egyptians suffer. I am Jehovah, who heals you.

Go to Gilead, and get medicine, dear people of Egypt. You have used many medicines without results and cannot be cured.

After the smoke left the tent, Miriam was covered with an infectious skin disease. She was as white as snow. Aaron turned to her and saw she was covered with the disease. He said to Moses: Please, do not make us suffer this punishment for our foolish sin. Do not let her become like something born dead with half its flesh eaten away.read more.
Therefore Moses cried out to Jehovah: O God, heal her! Jehovah answered: If her father had spit in her face, she would have to bear her disgrace for seven days. So let her be shut out of the camp for a week, and after that she can be brought back in. Miriam was shut out of the camp for seven days. The people did not move on until she was brought back in.

Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh, king of Egypt. His arm is not bandaged, so it cannot heal and be strong enough to hold a sword.

They moved from Mount Hor following the road that goes to the Red Sea. That way they could go around Edom. The people became impatient on the trip and criticized God and Moses. They said: Why did you make us leave Egypt only to let us die in the desert? There is no bread or water, and we cannot stand this awful food! Jehovah sent poisonous snakes among the people. They bit the people, and many of the Israelites died.read more.
The people came to Moses and said: We sinned when we criticized Jehovah and you. Pray to Jehovah so that he will take the snakes away from us. So Moses prayed for the people. Jehovah said to Moses: Make a snake and put it on a pole. Anyone who is bitten can look at it and live. Moses made a copper snake and put it on a pole. People looked at the copper snake after they were bitten and lived.

Then Isaiah said: Get a fig cake, and put it on the boil so that the king will get well.

See now that I, even I, am he. There is no god besides me! It is I who put to death and give life. I have wounded and it is I who heals. There is no one who can deliver from my hand.

Isaiah said: Prepare a poultice of figs and apply it to the boil, and he will recover.

Be merciful to me, Jehovah, for I am faint. O Jehovah, heal me, for my bones are in agony.

In the thirty-ninth year that Asa was king a severe foot disease crippled him. Even then he did not turn to Jehovah for help, but to doctors. Two years later he died.

God inflicts wounds and he bandages. He strikes but his hands make you well.

You are smearing me with lies. As doctors you are worthless, all of you!

But he was pierced for our transgressions! He was crushed for our iniquities! The punishment that brought us peace was upon him. There has been healing for us because of his wounds.

There was a woman who had an issue of blood twelve years. She suffered treatment from many physicians but did not become better. She spent all her money and grew worse. Hearing about Jesus she came though the crowd and touched his garment.read more.
She said: If I touch his garments I shall be made whole. Immediately the flow of her blood dried up. She felt in her body that she was healed of her affliction.

However I will heal this city and restore it to health. I will heal its people, and I will give them peace and security.

There was a woman having an issue of blood twelve years. She spent all her money on physicians, and could not be healed by any. She came behind him and touched the border of his garment. Immediately the issue of blood stopped.

Come, and let us return to Jehovah. He has torn us to pieces but he will heal us. He has wounded us but he will bandage us.

Then Joseph gave orders to embalm his father's body.

That evening, they brought many people possessed with demons to him. He cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all that were sick. In so doing, that which was spoken through Isaiah was fulfilled. Isaiah wrote: He took our sicknesses and removed our diseases.

Luke, the beloved physician, and Demas greet you.

That evening at sunset many sick and demon-possessed people were presented to Jesus. A huge crowd of people from all over Capernaum gathered outside to watch. Jesus healed many who were sick with various diseases. He cast out many demons. Knowing them he would not permit the demons to speak.

When the sun was setting they brought many who were sick of different diseases to him. He laid his hands on every one of them and healed them.

Jesus heard this. He said to them: Those who are well have no need of a medical man but those who are ill do. I have come to care for sinners not the upright.

When he heard it, he said: People who are well do not have need of a physician. The sick do.

He took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows. We considered him stricken by God, smitten by him, and afflicted.

News about him spread throughout the country of Syria. People sick and suffering from diseases, people with demons, epileptics and paralytics, came to him. Jesus healed them all.

Jesus answered them: Those who have good health do not need a physician. The sick do.

He saw the great crowd, had compassion on them, and healed their sick.

Then he said: You will no doubt say this proverb to me, physician heal yourself. That which we heard was done at Capernaum do also here in your own country.

The crowds followed him and he welcomed them. He spoke to them about the kingdom of God. He healed many who were sick.

Naaman was a great soldier. He was commander of the Syrian army and highly respected and esteemed by the king of Syria (Aram). Jehovah gave victory to the Syrian forces through Naaman. He suffered from a dreaded skin disease. The Syrians carried off a little Israelite girl during one of their raids against Israel. The girl became a servant of Naaman's wife. She said to her mistress: I wish my master could go to the prophet who lives in Samaria! He would cure him of his leprosy.read more.
Naaman heard of this and told the king what the girl said. The king said: Go to the king of Israel and take this letter to him. Naaman departed. He took thirty thousand pieces of silver, six thousand pieces of gold, and ten changes of fine clothes. The letter stated: This letter will introduce my officer Naaman. I want you to cure him of his leprosy. The king of Israel read the letter and tore his clothes and said: How can the king of Syria expect me to cure this man? Does he think that I am God, with the power of life and death? It is plain that he is trying to start a quarrel with me! When the prophet Elisha heard what happened, he sent word to the king: Why are you so upset? Send Naaman to me. I will show him that there is a prophet in Israel! Naaman went with his horses and chariots and stopped at the entrance to Elisha's house. Elisha sent a servant to tell him to wash himself seven times in the Jordan River. He would then be completely cured of his disease. Naaman left in a rage, saying: I thought he would at least come out to me, pray to Jehovah his God, wave his hand over the diseased spot, and cure me! Are not the Abanah and Pharpar rivers in Damascus better than any river in Israel? I could have washed in them and been cured! His servants went up to him and said: If the prophet had told you to do something difficult, you would have done it. Now why can you not just wash yourself, as he said, and be cured? So Naaman went to the Jordan River and dipped himself in it seven times, as Elisha had instructed. He was completely cured. His flesh became firm and healthy like that of a child.

Hezekiah became ill and was about to die. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz said to him: This is what Jehovah says: 'Give final instructions to your household. You will not recover. You will die.' Hezekiah faced the wall and prayed to Jehovah: Jehovah, Please remember how I have walked before you in faithfulness and truth. And consider my whole heart devoted to you. I have done what is good in your eyes. Hezekiah wept bitterly.read more.
Isaiah had not gone as far as the middle courtyard when Jehovah spoke to him: Go back and tell Hezekiah, the leader of my people: 'This is what Jehovah God of your ancestor David says: I heard your prayer. I saw your tears. Now I will heal you. The day after tomorrow you will go to Jehovah's Temple. I will add fifteen more years to your life. I will rescue you and defend this city from the control of the king of Assyria. I do this for my sake and for the sake of my servant David.' Then Isaiah said: Get a fig cake, and put it on the boil so that the king will get well.

Hezekiah became sick and was about to die. He prayed to Jehovah, who answered him and gave him a miraculous sign.

King Hezekiah became sick and almost died. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz went to see him. Isaiah said to him: Jehovah tells you: 'You are to put everything in order because you will not recover. Get ready to die.' Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to Jehovah: Remember, Jehovah, that I have served you faithfully and loyally. I have always tried to do what you wanted me to. Then he cried bitterly.read more.
Then Jehovah commanded Isaiah to go back to Hezekiah and say to him: I Jehovah, the God of your ancestor David, have heard your prayer and seen your tears. I will add fifteen more years to your life.