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Give up your faults and direct your hands aright, and cleanse your heart from all sin.
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Offer a sweet-smelling sacrifice, and a memorial portion of fine flour, and pour oil on your offering, as much as you can afford.
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And give the physician his place, for the Lord created him; let him not leave you, for there is need of him.
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There is a time when success lies in the hands of physicians,
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for they too will pray to the Lord that he should grant them success in diagnosis and in healing, for the sake of preserving life.
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.