Jesus said that a sick person needs a doctor in
Matthew 9:12
Solomon said that medicine doeth good in
Proverbs 17:22
Proverbs 18:9 says: “He who does not use his endeavors to heal himself is brother to him who commits suicide.”
If you are Roman Catholic or have an old King James Bible, or a 1611 King James Bible, or a Jerusalem Bible, or a New English Bible or a LXX Bible or a NRSV Bible, you have a book in the Old Testament called Sirach or Ecclesiasticus or Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach.Below are some verses from chapter 38 of that book. We have read these verses to people (Roman Catholic) in hospitals or in their homes when we pray for them.
The Jews did not consider the apocriyphal books to be "Scripture" but could be used for wisdom and teaching and are found among the Dead Sea Scrolls. If you are a "1611 KJV only" person you can read and apply the apocryphal books right along with the rest of that version.
1 Honour physicians for their services,
for the Lord created them;
2 for their gift of healing comes from the Most High,
and they are rewarded by the king.
3 The skill of physicians makes them distinguished,
and in the presence of the great they are admired.
4The Lord created medicines out of the earth,
and the sensible will not despise them.
5 Was not water made sweet with a tree
in order that its power might be known?
6 And he gave skill to human beings
that he might be glorified in his marvellous works.
7 By them the physician heals and takes away pain;
8 the pharmacist makes a mixture from them.
God’s works will never be finished;
and from him health spreads over all the earth.
9 My child, when you are ill, do not delay,
but pray to the Lord, and he will heal you.
10 Give up your faults and direct your hands rightly,
and cleanse your heart from all sin.
11 Offer a sweet-smelling sacrifice, and a memorial portion of choice flour,
and pour oil on your offering, as much as you can afford.
12 Then give the physician his place, for the Lord created him;
do not let him leave you, for you need him.
13 There may come a time when recovery lies in the hands of physicians,
14 for they too pray to the Lord
that he will grant them success in diagnosis
and in healing, for the sake of preserving life.
15 A man sins in the eyes of his Maker
if he defies the physician.
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