Bible verses about "autism" | WPNT

² So Jesus called a little child to Him, set him in the midst of them, ³ and said: “Assuredly I say to you, unless you change and become like little children, you will not enter the kingdom of the heavens. ⁴ Therefore whoever will humble himself like this little child, he is the greater in the kingdom of the heavens. ⁵ “Whoever receives one little child like this in my name, receives me;

¹⁷ In answer a man in the crowd said: “Teacher, I brought you my son, who has a mute spirit. ¹⁸ And wherever it seizes him it throws him down, and he foams at the mouth and gnashes his teeth, and becomes rigid. Indeed, I spoke to your disciples, that they might cast it out, but they could not.” ¹⁹ But He answered him by saying: “O unbelieving generation, how long shall I be with you, how long shall I put up with you? Bring him to me!” ²⁰ So they brought him to Him. Upon seeing Him the spirit convulsed him, and falling to the ground he started wallowing, foaming at the mouth. ²¹ Then He asked his father, “How long has this been happening to him?” And he said: “From childhood. ²² Really, it has often thrown him both into fire and into water to destroy him. But if you can do anything, have compassion on us and help us.” ²³ Jesus said to him, “It’s ‘if you can believe’; all things are possible to the one who believes”. ²⁴ Immediately the father of the child cried out and said, with tears, “Lord, I believe; help my unbelief!” ²⁵ When Jesus saw that the crowd was running up, He rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, “You mute and deaf spirit, I am commanding you, get out of him and never enter him again”. ²⁶ Then it yelled, convulsed him violently, and came out. Well he looked to be dead; so much so that many said, “He’s dead”. ²⁷ But Jesus took him by the hand and lifted him up, and he stayed on his feet. ²⁸ Well upon His entering a house His disciples asked Him privately, “Why couldn’t we cast it out?” ²⁹ He said to them, “This kind can come out by nothing except prayer and fasting”.

¹⁴ As they came to the crowd a man approached Him and kneeling to Him said: ¹⁵ “Lord, have mercy on my son, because he is moonstruck and suffers badly! For he often falls into the fire and often into the water. ¹⁶ So I brought him to your disciples, but they could not cure him.” ¹⁷ Then in answer Jesus said: “O faithless and perverse generation, how long must I be with you? How long must I put up with you? Bring him here to me.” ¹⁸ And Jesus rebuked the demon and it came out of him, and the boy was healed from that very hour.

¹⁹ But He answered him by saying: “O unbelieving generation, how long shall I be with you, how long shall I put up with you? Bring him to me!” ²⁰ So they brought him to Him. Upon seeing Him the spirit convulsed him, and falling to the ground he started wallowing, foaming at the mouth. ²¹ Then He asked his father, “How long has this been happening to him?” And he said: “From childhood. ²² Really, it has often thrown him both into fire and into water to destroy him. But if you can do anything, have compassion on us and help us.” ²³ Jesus said to him, “It’s ‘if you can believe’; all things are possible to the one who believes”. ²⁴ Immediately the father of the child cried out and said, with tears, “Lord, I believe; help my unbelief!” ²⁵ When Jesus saw that the crowd was running up, He rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, “You mute and deaf spirit, I am commanding you, get out of him and never enter him again”. ²⁶ Then it yelled, convulsed him violently, and came out. Well he looked to be dead; so much so that many said, “He’s dead”. ²⁷ But Jesus took him by the hand and lifted him up, and he stayed on his feet. ²⁸ Well upon His entering a house His disciples asked Him privately, “Why couldn’t we cast it out?” ²⁹ He said to them, “This kind can come out by nothing except prayer and fasting”. ³⁰ Having gone out from there they were passing through Galilee, and He didn’t want anyone to know; ³¹ because He was teaching His disciples and saying to them, “The Son of Man is going to be betrayed into the hands of men, and they will kill him; and once killed he will rise on the third day”. ³² But they were not understanding this information, yet were afraid to ask Him. ³³ Then He came to Capernaum; and once in the house He asked them, “What were you debating among yourselves on the road?” ³⁴ But they kept silent, because on the road they had debated among themselves who was greater. ³⁵ So He sat down, called the twelve and said to them, “If anyone desires to be first, he must be last of all and servant of all”. ³⁶ Then He took a child and stood him in their midst, and embracing him said to them, ³⁷ “Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me, and whoever receives me receives not only me, but the One who sent me”. ³⁸ So John answered Him saying, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in your name, one who doesn’t follow us; and we forbade him, because he doesn’t follow us”. ³⁹ But Jesus said: “Do not forbid him, because no one who works a miracle in my name can soon afterward speak evil of me. ⁴⁰ For he who is not against you is for you. ⁴¹ Further, whoever gives you a cup of water to drink in my name, because you are Christ’s, I tell you with certainty, he will by no means lose his reward. ⁴² “Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe into me to fall, it would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea. ⁴³ Further, if your hand is causing you to fall, cut it off; it is better for you to enter into the Life maimed than having both hands to go away into Gehenna, into the unquenchable fire— ⁴⁴ where ‘their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched’. ⁴⁵ And if your foot is causing you to fall, cut it off; it is better for you to enter into the Life lame than having both feet to be thrown into Gehenna, into the unquenchable fire— ⁴⁶ where ‘their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched’. ⁴⁷ And if your eye is causing you to fall, pluck it out; it is better for you to enter into the Kingdom of God with one eye than having both eyes to be thrown into the Gehenna of fire— ⁴⁸ where ‘their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched’. ⁴⁹ “Further, everyone will be seasoned with fire, and every sacrifice will be seasoned with salt. ⁵⁰ Salt is good, but if the salt loses its saltiness, with what will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.”

⁴⁷ Also, if someone hears my words and doesn’t believe, I don’t judge him; because I did not come to judge the world but to save the world.

¹⁸ Further, I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh; because to will is present with me, but I don’t find how to perform the good.

⁹ But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more cheerfully about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may take up residence upon me. ¹⁰ So then, I take pleasure in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

² Yes, stop conforming to the pattern of this world; rather, be transformed by the renewing of your mind so as to be able to experience the good and satisfying and perfect will of God.

¹⁸ But God has really placed the members in the body, each one of them, just as He pleased.

²⁶ Just look at your calling, brothers: not many are wise, not many are powerful, not many are of noble birth, by human standards; ²⁷ but God has chosen the foolish things of the world that He might put the wise to shame, and God has chosen the weak things of the world that He might put the strong things to shame; ²⁸ and God has chosen the lowly things of the world and the despised things—even the ‘nothings’—that He might nullify the ‘somethings’; ²⁹ so that no flesh should boast in God’s presence.

¹ Now as He was passing by He saw a man blind from birth. ² And His disciples asked Him saying, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, in that he was born blind?” ³ Jesus answered: “Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but so that the works of God might be displayed in him.