Bible verses about healing
Scripture is more careful about healing than the verses usually quoted from it. It records the cures, and it records the letters written to people who were not cured. These passages are set out with a sentence on each, saying what is actually being claimed.
who forgives all your sins, who heals all your diseases, — Psalm 103:3 · WEB
A man instructs his own soul to remember, and the list he produces is the fullest account of God's character in the collection.
He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds. — Psalm 147:3 · WEB
The one who counts the stars and names them is described, in the next breath, as binding up wounds.
For I will restore health to you, and I will heal you of your wounds,” says Yahweh, “because they have called you an outcast, saying, ‘It is Zion, whom no man seeks after.’” — Jeremiah 30:17 · WEB
The diagnosis says the injury cannot be treated and the same passage says it will be healed, and the reason given is a taunt rather than a merit.
Read the comment on Your Wound Is Incurable, and I Will Heal It
He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace, and be cured of your disease.” — Mark 5:34 · WEB
Two desperate cases interleaved — twelve years of illness, twelve years of life — and both are answered by faith touching and being called out of the crowd.
Is any among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the assembly, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord; — James 5:14 · WEB
Three conditions are met with three responses, and the healing passage credits the prayer rather than the oil or the elders.
But he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought our peace was on him; and by his wounds we are healed. — Isaiah 53:5 · WEB
A man nobody looked at twice, and the verse at the center that says whose sin it was and who put it on him.
He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness. You were healed by his wounds. — 1 Peter 2:24 · WEB
The example gives way to something no one is asked to copy, and the section ends by telling slaves that they have an owner of a different kind.
that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying, “He took our infirmities and bore our diseases.” — Matthew 8:17 · WEB
A fever, an evening of healings, and a quotation from Isaiah that tells the reader what all of it costs.
Yahweh my God, I cried to you, and you have healed me. — Psalm 30:2 · WEB
A man recovers from an illness that nearly killed him and admits what his prosperity had persuaded him of.
Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am faint. Yahweh, heal me, for my bones are troubled. — Psalm 6:2 · WEB
A man soaking his bed with tears argues for his life on the ground that the dead do not praise God.
Yahweh will sustain him on his sickbed, and restore him from his bed of illness. — Psalm 41:3 · WEB
A sick man is visited by a friend who is gathering material, and the first book of the Psalter closes with a doxology.
He said, “If you will diligently listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, and will do that which is right in his eyes, and will pay attention to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have put on the Egyptians; for I am Yahweh who heals you.” — Exodus 15:26 · WEB
Three days after the sea, the singing stops over drinking water, and God attaches a promise about health to a test about obedience.
Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be healthy, even as your soul prospers. — 3 John 1:2 · WEB
The elder's best news is not that his friend is well but that he walks in truth — and he prays the rest of him up to that mark.
A cheerful heart makes good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones. — Proverbs 17:22 · WEB
Jesus went about in all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the Good News of the Kingdom, and healing every disease and every sickness among the people. — Matthew 4:23 · WEB