medicine

²²A joyful soul makes a lifetime flourish. A gloomy spirit dries out the bones.

²³Do not continue to drink only water, but make use of a little wine, for the sake of your stomach and your frequent infirmities.

²In the midst of its main street, and on both sides of the river, was the Tree of Life, bearing twelve fruits, offering one fruit for each month, and the leaves of the tree are for the health of the nations.

¹²But Jesus, hearing this, said: “It is not those who are healthy who are in need of a physician, but those who have maladies.

¹²And above the torrent, on its banks on both sides, every kind of fruit tree will rise up. Their foliage will not fall away, and their fruit will not fail. Every single month they will bring forth first-fruits. For its waters will go forth from the sanctuary. And its fruits will be for food, and its leaves will be for medicine.”

²²Is there no balm in Gilead? Or is there no physician there? Then why has the wound of the daughter of my people not been closed?”

²¹Now Isaiah had ordered them to take a paste of figs, and to spread it like plaster over the wound, so that he would be healed.

³⁴And approaching him, he bound up his wounds, pouring oil and wine on them. And setting him on his pack animal, he brought him to an inn, and he took care of him.

¹⁸For he wounds and he cures; he strikes and his hands will heal.

¹¹Ascend to Gilead, and take its balm, O virgin daughter of Egypt! It is in vain that you multiply medicines; there will be no health for you!

¹⁵And a prayer of faith will save the infirm, and the Lord will alleviate him. And if he has sins, these will be forgiven him.

²And do not choose to be conformed to this age, but instead choose to be reformed in the newness of your mind, so that you may demonstrate what is the will of God: what is good, and what is well-pleasing, and what is perfect.

¹³There is no one who may judge your judgment, so as to bandage it; there is no useful treatment for you.