Healing and Sin

1. Then Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman he had married (for he had married an Ethiopian woman).
2. They said, “Has the Lord only spoken through Moses? Has he not also spoken through us?” And the Lord heard it.
3. (Now the man Moses was very humble, more so than any man on the face of the earth.)
4. The Lord spoke immediately to Moses, Aaron, and Miriam: “The three of you come to the tent of meeting.” So the three of them went.
5. And the Lord came down in a pillar of cloud and stood at the entrance of the tent; he then called Aaron and Miriam, and they both came forward.
6. The Lord said, “Hear now my words: If there is a prophet among you, I the Lord will make myself known to him in a vision; I will speak with him in a dream.
7. My servant Moses is not like this; he is faithful in all my house.
8. With him I will speak face to face, openly, and not in riddles; and he will see the form of the Lord. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?”
9. The anger of the Lord burned against them, and he departed.
10. When the cloud departed from above the tent, Miriam became leprous as snow. Then Aaron looked at Miriam, and she was leprous!
11. So Aaron said to Moses, “O my lord, please do not hold this sin against us, in which we have acted foolishly and have sinned!
12. Do not let her be like a baby born dead, whose flesh is half-consumed when it comes out of its mother’s womb!”
13. Then Moses cried to the Lord, “Heal her now, O God.”
14. The Lord said to Moses, “ …Shut her out from the camp seven days, and afterward she can be brought back in again.”
15. So Miriam was shut outside of the camp for seven days, and the people did not journey on until Miriam was brought back in.

58. “If you refuse to obey all the words of this law, the things written in this scroll, and refuse to fear this glorious and awesome name, the Lord your God,
59. then the Lord will increase your punishments and those of your descendants—great and long-lasting afflictions and severe, enduring illnesses.
60. He will infect you with all the diseases of Egypt that you dreaded, and they will persistently afflict you.
61. Moreover, the Lord will bring upon you every kind of sickness and plague not mentioned in this scroll of commandments, until you have perished.

17. They acted like fools in their rebellious ways,
          and suffered because of their sins.
18. They lost their appetite for all food,
          and they drew near the gates of death.
19. They cried out to the Lord in their distress;
          he delivered them from their troubles.
20. He sent them an assuring word and healed them;
          he rescued them from the pits where they were trapped.

16. When evening had come, they brought to him many who were demon-possessed. And he cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all who were sick,
17. that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying: “He himself took our infirmities and bore our sicknesses.”

5. Now a man was there who had been disabled for thirty-eight years.
6. When Jesus saw him lying there and when he realized that the man had been disabled a long time already, he said to him, “Do you want to become well?”
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14. After this Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, “Look, you have become well. Don’t sin any more, lest anything worse happen to you.”

2. And his disciples asked him, saying, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”
3. Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but that the works of God should be revealed in him.

17. Now in giving the following instruction I do not praise you, because you come together not for the better but for the worse.
18. For in the first place, when you come together as a church I hear there are divisions among you, and in part I believe it.
19. For there must in fact be divisions among you, so that those of you who are approved may be evident.
20. Now when you come together at the same place, you are not really eating the Lord’s Supper.
21. For in eating, each one goes ahead with his own meal. One goes hungry, another gets drunk.
22. Do you not have houses so that you can eat and drink? Or are you trying to show contempt for the church of God by shaming those who have nothing? What should I say to you? Should I praise you? I will not praise you for this!
23. For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night in which he was betrayed took bread,
24. and after he had given thanks he broke it and said, “This is my body, which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.”
25. In the same way, he also took the cup after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, every time you drink it, in remembrance of me.”
26. For every time you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.
27. For this reason, whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.
28. A person should examine himself first, and in this way let him eat the bread and drink of the cup.
29. For the one who eats and drinks without careful regard for the body eats and drinks judgment against himself.
30. That is why many of you are weak and sick, and quite a few are dead.
31. But if we examined ourselves, we would not be judged.
32. But when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined so that we may not be condemned with the world.
33. So then, my brothers and sisters, when you come together to eat, wait for one another.
34. If anyone is famished, let him eat at home, so that when you assemble it does not lead to judgment. I will give directions about other matters when I come.

14. Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord.
15. And the prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.
16. Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.

9. But if we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous, forgiving us our sins and cleansing us from all unrighteousness.

21. “And I gave her time to repent of her sexual immorality, and she did not repent.
22. Indeed I will cast her into a sickbed, and those who commit adultery with her into great tribulation, unless they repent of their deeds.

Updated on 2010-03-14 (r.154) by Andrew Fountain