helping people with mental illness
What does the Bible say about helping people with mental illness? These are the passages readers found most helpful — tap any citation to read it in context.
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10Do not be afraid, for I am with you. Do not turn away, for I am your God. I have strengthened you, and I have assisted you, and the right hand of my just one has upheld you.
7Cast all your cares upon him, for he takes care of you.
7For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of virtue, and of love, and of self-restraint.
6Be anxious about nothing. But in all things, with prayer and supplication, with acts of thanksgiving, let your petitions be made known to God. 7And so shall the peace of God, which exceeds all understanding, guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.
25Grief in the heart of a man humbles him. And with a good word he shall be made glad.
16If any among the faithful have widows, let him minister to them and not burden the Church, so that there may be enough for those who are true widows.
28Come to me, all you who labor and have been burdened, and I will refresh you.
26And they sailed to the region of the Gerasenes, which is opposite Galilee. 27And when he had gone out to the land, a certain man met him, who had now had a demon for a long time. And he did not wear clothes, nor did he stay in a house, but among the sepulchers. 28And when he saw Jesus, he fell down before him. And crying out in a loud voice, he said: “What is there between me and you, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg you not to torture me.” 29For he was ordering the unclean spirit to depart from the man. For on many occasions, it would seize him, and he was bound with chains and held by fetters. But breaking the chains, he was driven by the demon into deserted places. 30Then Jesus questioned him, saying, “What is your name?” And he said, “Legion,” because many demons had entered into him. 31And they petitioned him not to order them to go into the abyss.
27This is religion, clean and undefiled before God the Father: to visit orphans and widows in their tribulations, and to keep yourself immaculate, apart from this age.
24And reports of him went out to all of Syria, and they brought to him all those who had maladies, those who were in the grasp of various sicknesses and torments, and those who were in the hold of demons, and the mentally ill, and paralytics. And he cured them.