22节关于健康的圣经经文

约翰三书 1:2

“亲爱的兄弟啊，我愿你凡事兴盛，身体健壮，正如你的灵魂兴盛一样。”

反思： The letter opens with the elder writing to “the beloved Gaius,” and this wish for his health is the first thing he says to him. He measures the prayer by Gaius’s soul, which he already knows is well: the next verse says the brothers “testified to your truth, as indeed you are walking in the truth.”

箴言 3:7-8

“不要自以为有智慧；要敬畏耶和华，远离恶事。这便医治你的肚脐，滋润你的百骨。”

反思： A teacher addressing his son sets these lines just after “Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding” (Proverbs 3:5). Fearing the Lord and turning from evil is the condition, and healing to the flesh and refreshment to the bones is the result he names.

箴言 4:20-22

“我儿，要留心听我的言词，侧耳听我的话语。都不可离你的眼目，要存记在你心中。因为得着它的，就得了生命，又得了医全体的良药。”

反思： Here the teacher’s words themselves are called “life to those who find them, and healing to all their flesh.” The verse that follows says where they are to be kept: “Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.”

箴言 17:22

“喜乐的心乃是良药；忧伤的灵使骨枯干。”

反思： The proverb sets a joyful heart against a crushed spirit and describes both by their effect on the body, as medicine or as bones drying up. Proverbs 3:8 uses the same picture of the bones for the effect of fearing the Lord: “refreshment to your bones.”

提摩太前书 4:8

“操练身体，益处还少；惟独敬虔，凡事都有益处，因有今生和来生的应许。”

反思： Paul writes to Timothy about training. The verse before says “train yourself for godliness,” and this one grants that bodily training “is of some value” while ranking godliness higher, because it holds promise for this life and the one to come.

哥林多前书 6:19-20

“岂不知你们的身子就是圣灵的殿吗？这圣灵是从神而来，住在你们里头的；并且你们不是自己的人，因为你们是重价买来的。所以，要在你们的身子上荣耀神。”

反思： Paul writes this in an argument against sexual immorality in Corinth, where some said “Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food” (1 Corinthians 6:13). He answers that “the body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.” The body is a temple because the Holy Spirit lives in it, and a person bought with a price is told to glorify God in it.

诗篇 127:2

“你们清晨早起，夜晚安歇，吃劳碌得来的饭，本是枉然；惟有耶和华所亲爱的，必叫他安然睡觉。”

反思： The psalm opens with “Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain.” Rising early, working late and eating “the bread of anxious toil” are placed in the same list of vain efforts, and sleep is described as something God gives to those he loves.

马可福音 6:31

“耶稣对他们说：‘你们来，同我暗暗地到旷野地方去歇一歇。’这是因为来往的人多，他们连吃饭也没有工夫。”

反思： The apostles had just returned from the mission on which they preached and healed the sick (Mark 6:7-13, 30). So many people were coming and going that they had no time even to eat, and Jesus took them by boat to a desolate place to rest.

出埃及记 15:26

“Saying, ‘If you will diligently listen to the voice of the Lord your God, and do that which is right in his eyes, and give ear to his commandments and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you that I put on the Egyptians, for I am the Lord, your healer.’”

反思： Three days after crossing the Red Sea, Israel found only bitter water at Marah, and the Lord showed Moses a log that made it sweet. There he gave them a statute tying their health to listening to his voice, and named himself “the Lord, your healer.” The next stop was Elim, with twelve springs of water.

诗篇 103:2-3

“我的心哪，你要称颂耶和华，不可忘记他的一切恩惠！他赦免你的一切罪孽，医治你的一切疾病。”

反思： The psalmist tells his own soul to remember the Lord’s benefits, and the list begins with forgiveness and healing side by side. The following lines continue it: the Lord “redeems your life from the pit” and satisfies “so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s” (Psalm 103:4-5).

诗篇 41:3

“他病重在榻，耶和华必扶持他；他在病中，你必给他铺床。”

反思： The psalm opens by calling blessed the one “who considers the poor,” and this verse promises such a person that the Lord will sustain him on his sickbed. The psalmist then prays “heal me, for I have sinned against you” (Psalm 41:4) while his enemies say “he will not rise again from where he lies” (Psalm 41:8).

列王纪下 20:5

“你回去告诉我的民的君希西家说：‘耶和华你祖大卫的神如此说：我听见了你的祷告，看见了你的眼泪。看哪，我必医治你。’”

反思： King Hezekiah was sick to the point of death, and Isaiah had told him he would not recover. Hezekiah prayed and wept, and before Isaiah had left the middle court the Lord sent him back with this answer and a promise of fifteen more years. Isaiah then had a cake of figs laid on the king’s boil “that he may recover” (2 Kings 20:7).

耶利米书 30:17

“For I will restore health to you, and your wounds I will heal, declares the Lord, because they have called you an outcast: ‘It is Zion, for whom no one cares!’”

反思： The patient here is Zion. A few verses earlier the Lord calls Zion’s wound incurable, with “no medicine for your wound,” and says the blow came “because your guilt is great” (Jeremiah 30:12-15). The promise to restore health answers those who called Zion an outcast no one cares for.

马太福音 9:35

“耶稣走遍各城各乡，在会堂里教训人，宣讲天国的福音，又医治各样的病症。”

反思： Matthew sums up Jesus’ work in three parts: teaching in the synagogues, proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every disease and affliction. The next verse gives the reason he looked on the crowds with compassion: they were “harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.”

马可福音 5:34

“And he said to her, ‘Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace, and be healed of your disease.’”

反思： The woman had suffered from bleeding for twelve years, “had suffered much under many physicians,” spent all she had and grown worse. She touched Jesus’ garment and was healed at once, and when she came forward in fear and told him the whole truth, he called her “Daughter” and sent her away in peace.

马可福音 6:13

“又赶出许多的鬼，用油抹了许多病人，治好他们。”

反思： Jesus sent the twelve out two by two with authority over unclean spirits. Mark records that they proclaimed repentance, cast out demons, and anointed many sick people with oil and healed them.

雅各书 5:14-15

“你们中间有病了的呢，他就该请教会的长老来；他们可以奉主的名用油抹他，为他祷告。出于信心的祈祷要救那病人，主必叫他起来；他若犯了罪，也必蒙赦免。”

反思： James tells the sufferer to pray, the cheerful to sing, and the sick to call the elders of the church to pray and anoint with oil. The passage joins healing of sickness and forgiveness in the same breath, going on to say “confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed” (James 5:16).

以赛亚书 53:5

“哪知他为我们的过犯受害，为我们的罪孽压伤。因他受的刑罚我们得平安，因他受的鞭伤我们得医治。”

反思： The servant in Isaiah 53 suffers for others, and the verse before says he “has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows.” The New Testament applies the passage two ways. Matthew 8:17, after Jesus heals the sick, quotes it as “He took our illnesses and bore our diseases,” while 1 Peter 2:24 joins “By his wounds you have been healed” to Christ bearing “our sins in his body on the tree.”

哥林多后书 12:9

“他对我说：‘我的恩典够你用的，因为我的能力是在人的软弱上显得完全。’所以，我更喜欢夸自己的软弱，好叫基督的能力覆庇我。”

反思： Paul describes a “thorn in the flesh” and says he pleaded with the Lord three times for it to leave him. It did not; this sentence was the answer. Paul does not say what the thorn was, and he ends the passage content “with weaknesses” because “when I am weak, then I am strong” (2 Corinthians 12:10).

提摩太前书 5:23

“(No longer drink only water, but use a little wine for the sake of your stomach and your frequent ailments.)”

反思： In the middle of instructions about choosing and correcting elders, Paul adds a practical note for Timothy’s own health. Timothy had “frequent ailments,” and Paul prescribes a little wine for his stomach rather than water alone.

哥林多前书 15:42-43

“死人复活也是这样：所种的是必朽坏的，复活的是不朽坏的；所种的是羞辱的，复活的是荣耀的；所种的是软弱的，复活的是强壮的。”

反思： Paul compares the body that dies to a seed that is sown and the resurrection body to what grows from it. Each pair contrasts the two bodies: perishable and imperishable, dishonor and glory, weakness and power. The next verse calls them a natural body and a spiritual body.

启示录 21:4

“上帝要擦去他们一切的眼泪；不再有死亡，也不再有悲哀、哭号、疼痛，因为以前的事都过去了。”

反思： John hears this from the throne after seeing a new heaven and a new earth. The verse before gives the setting: “the dwelling place of God is with man.” Pain is listed with death, mourning and crying as “former things” that have passed away.