antidepressants
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33These things I have spoken to you, so that you may have peace in me. In the world, you will have difficulties. But have confidence: I have overcome the world.”
15For we do not have a high priest who is unable to have compassion on our infirmities, but rather one who was tempted in all things, just as we are, yet without sin. 16Therefore, let us go forth with confidence toward the throne of grace, so that we may obtain mercy, and find grace, in a helpful time.
7Ask, and it shall be given to you. Seek, and you shall find. Knock, and it shall be opened to you.
4He consoles us in all our tribulation, so that we too may be able to console those who are in any kind of distress, through the exhortation by which we also are being exhorted by God.
36Then Jesus went with them to a garden, which is called Gethsemani. And he said to his disciples, “Sit down here, while I go there and pray.” 37And taking with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, he began to be sorrowful and saddened. 38Then he said to them: “My soul is sorrowful, even unto death. Stay here and keep vigil with me.” 39And continuing on a little further, he fell prostrate on his face, praying and saying: “My Father, if it is possible, let this chalice pass away from me. Yet truly, let it not be as I will, but as you will.”
23Do not continue to drink only water, but make use of a little wine, for the sake of your stomach and your frequent infirmities.
16Therefore, confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another, so that you may be saved. For the unremitting prayer of a just person prevails over many things.
33And then, when Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had arrived with her weeping, he groaned in spirit and became troubled. 34And he said, “Where have you laid him?” They said to him, “Lord, come and see.” 35And Jesus wept. 36Therefore, the Jews said, “See how much he loved him!”
3He is despised and the least among men, a man of sorrows who knows infirmity. And his countenance was hidden and despised. Because of this, we did not esteem him. 4Truly, he has taken away our weaknesses, and he himself has carried our sorrows. And we thought of him as if he were a leper, or as if he had been struck by God and humiliated.
14Instead, the water that I will give to him will become in him a fountain of water, springing up into eternal life.”