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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- KJV But when Jesus heard that, he said unto them, They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick.
- BSB On hearing this, Jesus said, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick.
- NKJV When Jesus heard that, He said to them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick.
- NASB But when Jesus heard this, He said, “It is not those who are healthy who need a physician, but those who are sick.
- NLT When Jesus heard this, he said, “Healthy people don’t need a doctor—sick people do.”
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- Luke 5:31Jesus answered them, “Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick do.
- Rev 3:17–18Because 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;
- Jer 33:6‘Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them; and I will reveal to them abundance of peace and truth.
- Mark 2:17When 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 9:11But the multitudes, perceiving it, followed him. He welcomed them, and spoke to them of God’s Kingdom, and he cured those who needed healing.
- Jer 17:14Heal me, O Yahweh, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for you are my praise.
- Ps 147:3He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.
- Hos 14:4“I will heal their waywardness. I will love them freely; for my anger is turned away from him.
- Jer 30:17For 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.’”
- Ps 6:2Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am faint. Yahweh, heal me, for my bones are troubled.
- Luke 8:43A 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,
- Ps 41:4I said, “Yahweh, have mercy on me! Heal me, for I have sinned against you.”
- Luke 18:11–13The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this: ‘God, I thank you, that I am not like the rest of men, extortionists, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.
- Rom 7:9–24I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
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