Texts for Disability Services

Texts for Disability services:

OLD TESTAMENT

• Exodus 4:10-16 -- God makes people with disabilities
• Leviticus 21:16-23 -- disabilities in the old covenant
• I Samuel 16:7 -- God values what is in the heart
• II Samuel 9 -- the King and a disabled man
• I Kings 17-19 -- Elijah / depression
• Job 29:7-17 -- the righteous and disabilities
• Psalm 31:9-13 -- paranoid depression / psychosis
• Psalm 42 & 43 -- depression
• Isaiah 35 -- the future of people with disabilities
• Isaiah 52:14-53:3 -- Christ knows aversion/rejection
• Isaiah 58:6-12 -- care for the disadvantaged

NEW TESTAMENT

Synoptic accounts of Jesus' healing people with disabilities:

• Matthew 11:1-6 -- how Christ is to be recognized
• Luke 14:12-24 -- people with disabilities at the Kingdom "Banquet"
• John 5:1-15 -- Jesus at Bethesda
• John 9 -- what it means to be blind
• I  Corinthians 1:26-31 -- God chooses the lowly
• I  Corinthians 12 -- all have gifts
• II Corinthians 9:6-14 -- each contributes something to the rest