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What does the Bible say about therapy and counselling?
Proverbs commends many counsellors, and Scripture never treats seeking help as a lack of faith.
What Scripture says
Proverbs 11:14
“Where there is no wise guidance, the nation falls, but in the multitude of counselors there is victory.”
Proverbs 15:22
“Where there is no counsel, plans fail; but in a multitude of counselors they are established.”
Galatians 6:2
“Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.”
Ecclesiastes 4:9-10
“Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him who is alone when he falls, and doesn’t have another to lift him up.”
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