Matthew 9:12

World English Bible (2000)

When Jesus heard it, he said to them, "Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick do.

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  • Luke 5:31 : 31 Jesus answered them, "Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick do.
  • Rev 3:17-18 : 17 Because you say, 'I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing;' and don't know that you are the wretched one, miserable, poor, blind, and naked; 18 I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, that you may become rich; and white garments, that you may clothe yourself, and that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and eye salve to anoint your eyes, that you may see.
  • Mark 2:17 : 17 When Jesus heard it, he said to them, "Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."
  • Luke 8:43 : 43 A woman who had a flow of blood for twelve years, who had spent all her living on physicians, and could not be healed by any,
  • Luke 9:11 : 11 But the multitudes, perceiving it, followed him. He welcomed them, and spoke to them of the Kingdom of God, and he cured those who needed healing.
  • Luke 18:11-13 : 11 The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this: 'God, I thank you, that I am not like the rest of men, extortioners, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. 12 I fast twice a week. I give tithes of all that I get.' 13 But the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn't even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, 'God, be merciful to me, a sinner!'
  • Rom 7:9-9 : 9 I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. 10 The commandment, which was for life, this I found to be for death; 11 for sin, finding occasion through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me. 12 Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good. 13 Did then that which is good become death to me? May it never be! But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, by working death to me through that which is good; that through the commandment sin might become exceeding sinful. 14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin. 15 For I don't know what I am doing. For I don't practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do. 16 But if what I don't desire, that I do, I consent to the law that it is good. 17 So now it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me. 18 For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don't find it doing that which is good. 19 For the good which I desire, I don't do; but the evil which I don't desire, that I practice. 20 But if what I don't desire, that I do, it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me. 21 I find then the law, that, to me, while I desire to do good, evil is present. 22 For I delight in God's law after the inward man, 23 but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members. 24 What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?
  • Ps 6:2 : 2 Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am faint. Yahweh, heal me, for my bones are troubled.
  • Ps 41:4 : 4 I said, "Yahweh, have mercy on me! Heal me, for I have sinned against you."
  • Ps 147:3 : 3 He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.
  • Jer 17:14 : 14 Heal me, O Yahweh, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for you are my praise.
  • Jer 30:17 : 17 For I will restore health to you, and I will heal you of your wounds, says Yahweh; because they have called you an outcast, [saying], It is Zion, whom no man seeks after.
  • Jer 33:6 : 6 Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them; and I will reveal to them abundance of peace and truth.
  • Hos 14:4 : 4 "I will heal their waywardness. I will love them freely; for my anger is turned away from him.

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