What the Bible says about illness and healing

The 15 verses readers most often turn to for this topic, quoted in full from the Berean Standard Bible.

Jas 5:14–15Is any one of you sick? He should call the elders of the church to pray over him and anoint him with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer offered in faith will restore the one who is sick. The Lord will raise him up. If he has sinned, he will be forgiven.

Ps 41:3The LORD will sustain him on his bed of illness and restore him from his bed of sickness.

Ps 103:3He who forgives all your iniquities and heals all your diseases,

Prov 17:22A joyful heart is good medicine, but a broken spirit dries up the bones.

3 John 1:2Beloved, I pray that in every way you may prosper and enjoy good health, as your soul also prospers.

Jer 17:14Heal me, O LORD, and I will be healed; save me, and I will be saved, for You are my praise.

Exod 15:26saying, “If you will listen carefully to the voice of the LORD your God, and do what is right in His eyes, and pay attention to His commands, and keep all His statutes, then I will not bring on you any of the diseases I inflicted on the Egyptians. For I am the LORD who heals you.”

Exod 23:25So you shall serve the LORD your God, and He will bless your bread and your water. And I will take away sickness from among you.

Jas 5:16Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man has great power to prevail.

Jer 32:27“Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh. Is anything too difficult for Me?

Prov 4:20–22My son, pay attention to my words; incline your ear to my sayings. Do not lose sight of them; keep them within your heart. For they are life to those who find them, and health to the whole body.

John 11:4When Jesus heard this, He said, “This sickness will not end in death. No, it is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”

Mark 5:26She had borne much agony under the care of many physicians and had spent all she had, but to no avail. Instead, her condition had only grown worse.

Matt 4:23–24Jesus went throughout Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every disease and sickness among the people. News about Him spread all over Syria, and people brought to Him all who were ill with various diseases, those suffering acute pain, the demon-possessed, those having seizures, and the paralyzed—and He healed them.

Ps 30:2O LORD my God, I cried to You for help, and You healed me.

These are the verses readers most often turn to for this topic — not a teaching on it. Read each in its chapter.

Sources

The verses of each topic and their order: OpenBible.info topical data, by readers’ votes: OpenBible.info · CC BY 4.0

Berean Standard Bible · Public domain