30 Bible Verses about Disease

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Deuteronomy 7:15

And the Lord will take away from you all disease, and will not put on you any of the evil diseases of Egypt which you have seen, but will put them on your haters.

Exodus 15:26

And he said, If with all your heart you will give attention to the voice of the Lord your God, and do what is right in his eyes, giving ear to his orders and keeping his laws, I will not put on you any of the diseases which I put on the Egyptians: for I am the Lord your life-giver.

2 Chronicles 16:12

In the thirty-ninth year of his rule, Asa had a very bad disease of the feet; but he did not go to the Lord for help in his disease, but to medical men.

Exodus 23:25

And give worship to the Lord your God, who will send his blessing on your bread and on your water; and I will take all disease away from among you.

Psalm 91:10

No evil will come on you, and no disease will come near your tent.

Deuteronomy 28:60

He will send on you again all the diseases of Egypt, which were a cause of fear to you, and they will take you in their grip.

2 Chronicles 21:18

And after all this the Lord sent on him a disease of the stomach from which it was impossible for him to be made well.

Deuteronomy 28:27

The Lord will send on you the disease of Egypt, and other sorts of skin diseases which nothing will make well.

John 5:4

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Job 2:7

And the Satan went out from before the Lord, and sent on Job an evil disease covering his skin from his feet to the top of his head.

Isaiah 53:4

But it was our pain he took, and our diseases were put on him: while to us he seemed as one diseased, on whom God's punishment had come.

Deuteronomy 28:59

Then the Lord your God will make your punishment, and the punishment of your seed, a thing to be wondered at; great punishments and cruel diseases stretching on through long years.

2 Kings 5:27

Because of what you have done, the disease of Naaman the leper will take you in its grip, and your seed after you, for ever. And he went out from before him a leper as white as snow.

Leviticus 14:7

And shaking it seven times over the man who is to be made clean, he will say that he is clean and will let the living bird go free into the open country.

Deuteronomy 28:22

The Lord will send wasting disease, and burning pain, and flaming heat against you, keeping back the rain till your land is waste and dead; so will it be till your destruction is complete.

Isaiah 38:1

In those days Hezekiah was ill and near death. And Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, came to him, and said to him, The Lord says, Put your house in order; for your death is near.

Psalm 91:3

He will take you out of the bird-net, and keep you safe from wasting disease.

2 Chronicles 21:15

And you yourself will undergo the cruel pains of a disease in your stomach, so that day by day your inside will be falling out because of the disease.

Psalm 106:15

And he gave them their request, but sent a wasting disease into their souls.

Numbers 12:10

And the cloud was moved from over the Tent; and straight away Miriam became a leper, as white as snow: and Aaron, looking at Miriam, saw that she was a leper.

Jeremiah 30:17

For I will make you healthy again and I will make you well from your wounds, says the Lord; because they have given you the name of an outlaw, saying, It is Zion cared for by no man.

Zechariah 14:12

And this will be the disease which the Lord will send on all the peoples which have been warring against Jerusalem: their flesh will be wasted away while they are on their feet, their eyes will be wasted in their heads and their tongues in their mouths.

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Disease » Sent as a judgment » Disease sent

2 Kings 5:27

Because of what you have done, the disease of Naaman the leper will take you in its grip, and your seed after you, for ever. And he went out from before him a leper as white as snow.

2 Chronicles 26:19

Then Uzziah was angry; and he had in his hand a vessel for burning perfume; and while his wrath was bitter against the priests, the mark of the leper's disease came out on his brow, before the eyes of the priests in the house of the Lord by the altar of perfumes.

1 Samuel 5:6

But the hand of the Lord was hard on the people of Ashdod and he sent disease on them through all the country of Ashdod.

Numbers 16:47

And at the words of Moses, Aaron took his vessel, and went running among the people; and even then the disease had made a start among them; and he put spices in his vessel to take away the sin of the people.

Disease » Sent as a judgment » Sometimes sent as a judgment for sin

Ecclesiastes 5:17

All his days are in the dark, and he has much sorrow, pain, disease, and trouble.

Leviticus 26:15-16

And if you go against my rules and if you have hate in your souls for my decisions and you do not do all my orders, but go against my agreement; This will I do to you: I will put fear in your hearts, even wasting disease and burning pain, drying up the eyes and making the soul feeble, and you will get no profit from your seed, for your haters will take it for food.

Deuteronomy 28:61

And all the diseases and the pains not recorded in the book of this law will the Lord send on you till your destruction is complete.

2 Chronicles 21:15

And you yourself will undergo the cruel pains of a disease in your stomach, so that day by day your inside will be falling out because of the disease.

Disease » Remedies » Quarantine

Luke 17:12

And when he went into a certain small town he came across ten men who were lepers, and they, keeping themselves at a distance,

Leviticus 13:46

While the disease is on him, he will be unclean. He is unclean: let him keep by himself, living outside the tent-circle.

Leviticus 14:8

And he who is to be made clean will have his clothing washed and his hair cut and have a bath, and he will be clean. And after that he will come back to the tent-circle; but he is to keep outside his tent for seven days.

Numbers 5:2

Give orders to the children of Israel to put outside the tent-circle every leper, and anyone who has any sort of flow from his body, and anyone who is unclean from the touch of the dead;

2 Kings 15:5

And the Lord sent disease on the king and he became a leper, and to the day of his death he was living separately in his private house. And Jotham his son was over his house, judging the people of the land.

Disease » Prevention and cure of » Physicians

Jeremiah 8:22

Is there no life-giving oil in Gilead? is there no expert in medical arts? why then have my people not been made well?

Genesis 50:2

And Joseph gave orders to his servants who had the necessary knowledge, to make his father's body ready, folding it in linen with spices, and they did so.

Colossians 4:14

Luke, our well-loved medical friend, and Demas, send you their love.

2 Chronicles 16:12

In the thirty-ninth year of his rule, Asa had a very bad disease of the feet; but he did not go to the Lord for help in his disease, but to medical men.

Matthew 9:12

But on hearing this he said, Those who are well have no need of a medical man, but those who are ill.

More verses: Luke 4:23 Luke 5:31

Disease » Healed » Physicians employed in

Jeremiah 8:22

Is there no life-giving oil in Gilead? is there no expert in medical arts? why then have my people not been made well?

Genesis 50:2

And Joseph gave orders to his servants who had the necessary knowledge, to make his father's body ready, folding it in linen with spices, and they did so.

Colossians 4:14

Luke, our well-loved medical friend, and Demas, send you their love.

2 Chronicles 16:12

In the thirty-ninth year of his rule, Asa had a very bad disease of the feet; but he did not go to the Lord for help in his disease, but to medical men.

Matthew 9:12

But on hearing this he said, Those who are well have no need of a medical man, but those who are ill.

More verses: Luke 4:23 Luke 5:31

Disease » Good men afflicted with » The righteous suffer from

Acts 9:37

And it came about, in those days, that she got ill and came to her death: and when she had been washed, they put her in a room which was high up.

Job 2:7

And the Satan went out from before the Lord, and sent on Job an evil disease covering his skin from his feet to the top of his head.

2 Timothy 4:20

Erastus was stopping at Corinth; but Trophimus, when I last saw him was at Miletus, ill.

Daniel 8:27

And I, Daniel, was ill for some days; then I got up and did the king's business: and I was full of wonder at the vision, but no one was able to give the sense of it.

Disease » Healed » Examples of apostolic

Acts 3:7

And he took him by his right hand, lifting him up; and straight away his feet and the bones of his legs became strong,

Acts 5:16

And numbers of people came together from the towns round about Jerusalem, with those who were ill and those who were troubled with unclean spirits: and they were all made well.

Acts 9:34

And Peter said to him, Aeneas, Jesus Christ makes you well: get up and make your bed. And straight away he got up.

Acts 14:10

Said in a loud voice, Get up on your feet. And, jumping up, he went walking about.

Acts 16:18

And this she did on a number of days. But Paul was greatly troubled and, turning, said to the spirit, I give you orders in the name of Jesus Christ, to come out of her. And it came out that very hour.

More verses: Acts 19:12 Acts 28:8

Disease » Prevention and cure of » Medicine

Jeremiah 8:22

Is there no life-giving oil in Gilead? is there no expert in medical arts? why then have my people not been made well?

Jeremiah 46:11

Go up to Gilead and take sweet oil, O virgin daughter of Egypt: there is no help in all your medical arts; nothing will make you well.

Jeremiah 30:13

There is no help for your wound, there is nothing to make you well.

Ezekiel 47:12

And by the edge of the river, on this side and on that, will come up every tree used for food, whose leaves will ever be green and its fruit will not come to an end: it will have new fruit every month, because its waters come out from the holy place: the fruit will be for food and the leaf will make well those who are ill.

Disease » Remedies » General references

Isaiah 1:6

The body, from head to foot, is all diseased; it is a mass of open wounds, marks of blows, and broken flesh: the flow of blood has not been stopped, and no oil has been put on the wounds.

Luke 10:34

And came to him and put clean linen round his wounds, with oil and wine; and he put him on his beast and took him to a house and took care of him.

2 Kings 20:7

Then Isaiah said, Take a cake of figs. So they took it and put it on his wound, and he got better.

Disease » Healed » The gift of

Mark 16:18

They will take up snakes, and if there is poison in their drink, it will do them no evil; they will put their hands on those who are ill, and they will get well.

Disease » Instances of » Healing of, from God

Exodus 15:26

And he said, If with all your heart you will give attention to the voice of the Lord your God, and do what is right in his eyes, giving ear to his orders and keeping his laws, I will not put on you any of the diseases which I put on the Egyptians: for I am the Lord your life-giver.

2 Chronicles 16:12

In the thirty-ninth year of his rule, Asa had a very bad disease of the feet; but he did not go to the Lord for help in his disease, but to medical men.

Exodus 23:25

And give worship to the Lord your God, who will send his blessing on your bread and on your water; and I will take all disease away from among you.

Deuteronomy 7:15

And the Lord will take away from you all disease, and will not put on you any of the evil diseases of Egypt which you have seen, but will put them on your haters.

More verses: Psalm 107:20

Disease » Healed » The dumb healed

Isaiah 35:6

Then will the feeble-footed be jumping like a roe, and the voice which was stopped will be loud in song: for in the waste land streams will be bursting out, and waters in the dry places.

Matthew 12:22

Then they took to him one with an evil spirit, who was blind and had no power of talking: and he made him well so that he had the power of talking and seeing.

Mark 9:25

And when Jesus saw that the people came running together, he gave orders to the unclean spirit, saying to him, You, spirit, who are the cause of his loss of voice and hearing, I say to you, come out of him, and never again go into him.

Disease » Instances of » Physicians employed for

Jeremiah 8:22

Is there no life-giving oil in Gilead? is there no expert in medical arts? why then have my people not been made well?

2 Chronicles 16:12

In the thirty-ninth year of his rule, Asa had a very bad disease of the feet; but he did not go to the Lord for help in his disease, but to medical men.

Matthew 9:12

But on hearing this he said, Those who are well have no need of a medical man, but those who are ill.

Luke 4:23

And he said to them, Without doubt you will say to me, Let the medical man make himself well: the things which to our knowledge were done at Capernaum, do them here in your country.

Mark 5:26

And had undergone much at the hands of a number of medical men, and had given all she had, and was no better, but even worse,

Disease » Instances of » Remedies used

Jeremiah 46:11

Go up to Gilead and take sweet oil, O virgin daughter of Egypt: there is no help in all your medical arts; nothing will make you well.

Proverbs 20:30

By the wounds of the rod evil is taken away, and blows make clean the deepest parts of the body.

Isaiah 38:21

And Isaiah said, Let them take a cake of figs, and put it on the diseased place, and he will get well.

Jeremiah 30:13

There is no help for your wound, there is nothing to make you well.

Disease » Instances of » Threatened as judgments

Leviticus 26:16

This will I do to you: I will put fear in your hearts, even wasting disease and burning pain, drying up the eyes and making the soul feeble, and you will get no profit from your seed, for your haters will take it for food.

Deuteronomy 28:22

The Lord will send wasting disease, and burning pain, and flaming heat against you, keeping back the rain till your land is waste and dead; so will it be till your destruction is complete.

Deuteronomy 28:35

The Lord will send a skin disease, attacking your knees and your legs, bursting out from your feet to the top of your head, so that nothing will make you well.

Deuteronomy 7:15

And the Lord will take away from you all disease, and will not put on you any of the evil diseases of Egypt which you have seen, but will put them on your haters.

Deuteronomy 28:27-28

The Lord will send on you the disease of Egypt, and other sorts of skin diseases which nothing will make well. He will make your minds diseased, and your eyes blind, and your hearts wasted with fear:

More verses: Deuteronomy 29:22

Disease » Remedies » Disinfection

Leviticus 14:41

And he will have the house rubbed all over inside, and the paste which is rubbed off will be put out into an unclean place outside the town:

Leviticus 15:5

And anyone touching his bed is to have his clothing washed and his body bathed in water and be unclean till evening.

Disease » Instances of » Of the sexual organs

Numbers 5:2

Give orders to the children of Israel to put outside the tent-circle every leper, and anyone who has any sort of flow from his body, and anyone who is unclean from the touch of the dead;

Leviticus 22:4

No man of the seed of Aaron who is a leper, or who has a flow from his body, may take of the holy food till he is clean. And any man touching anything which is unclean because of the dead, or any man whose seed goes from him;

Deuteronomy 23:10

If any man among you becomes unclean through anything which has taken place in the night, he is to go out from the tent-circle and keep outside it:

Disease » Figurative

Isaiah 1:6

The body, from head to foot, is all diseased; it is a mass of open wounds, marks of blows, and broken flesh: the flow of blood has not been stopped, and no oil has been put on the wounds.

Disease » Instances of » In answer to prayer » Of hezekiah

2 Kings 20:1-11

In those days Hezekiah was ill and near death. And Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, came to him, and said to him, The Lord says, Put your house in order, for your death is near. Then, turning his face to the wall, he made his prayer to the Lord, saying, O Lord, keep in mind how I have been true to you with all my heart, and have done what is good in your eyes. And Hezekiah gave way to bitter weeping. read more.
Now before Isaiah had gone out of the middle of the town, the word of the Lord came to him, saying, Go back and say to Hezekiah, the ruler of my people, The Lord, the God of David your father, says, Your prayer has come to my ears, and I have seen your weeping; see, I will make you well: on the third day you will go up to the house of the Lord. I will give you fifteen more years of life; and I will keep you and this town safe from the hands of the king of Assyria; I will keep this town safe, for my honour, and for the honour of my servant David. Then Isaiah said, Take a cake of figs. So they took it and put it on his wound, and he got better. And Hezekiah said to Isaiah, What is to be the sign that the Lord will make me well, and that I will go up to the house of the Lord on the third day? And Isaiah said, This is the sign the Lord will give you, that he will do what he has said; will the shade go forward ten degrees or back? And Hezekiah said in answer, It is a simple thing for the shade to go forward; but let it go back ten degrees. Then Isaiah the prophet made prayer to the Lord, and he made the shade go back ten degrees from its position on the steps of Ahaz.

Isaiah 38:1-8

In those days Hezekiah was ill and near death. And Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, came to him, and said to him, The Lord says, Put your house in order; for your death is near. And Hezekiah, turning his face to the wall, made his prayer to the Lord, saying, O Lord, keep in mind how I have been true to you with all my heart, and have done what is good in your eyes. And Hezekiah gave way to bitter weeping. read more.
Then the word of the Lord came to Isaiah, saying, Go to Hezekiah, and say, The Lord, the God of David, your father, says, Your prayer has come to my ears, and I have seen your weeping: see, I will give you fifteen more years of life. And I will keep you and this town safe from the hands of the king of Assyria: and I will keep watch over this town. And Isaiah said, This is the sign the Lord will give you, that he will do what he has said: See, I will make the shade which has gone down on the steps of Ahaz with the sun, go back ten steps. So the shade went back the ten steps by which it had gone down.

Disease » Remedies » Treatment of wounds

Isaiah 1:6

The body, from head to foot, is all diseased; it is a mass of open wounds, marks of blows, and broken flesh: the flow of blood has not been stopped, and no oil has been put on the wounds.

Luke 10:34

And came to him and put clean linen round his wounds, with oil and wine; and he put him on his beast and took him to a house and took care of him.

Disease » Remedies » Anointing with oil

Disease » As judgments

Isaiah 3:17

The Lord will send disease on the heads of the daughters of Zion, and the Lord will let their secret parts be seen.

Disease » Instances of » Ointments

Isaiah 1:6

The body, from head to foot, is all diseased; it is a mass of open wounds, marks of blows, and broken flesh: the flow of blood has not been stopped, and no oil has been put on the wounds.

Jeremiah 8:22

Is there no life-giving oil in Gilead? is there no expert in medical arts? why then have my people not been made well?

Disease » Instances of » In answer to prayer » Of david

Psalm 21:4

He made request to you for life, and you gave it to him, long life for ever and ever.

Disease » Remedies » Treatment of fractures

Ezekiel 30:21

Son of man, the arm of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, has been broken by me, and no band has been put round it to make it well, no band has been twisted round it to make it strong for gripping the sword.

Disease » Instances of » Jehoram

2 Chronicles 21:12-19

And a letter came to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, The Lord, the God of your father David, says, Because you have not kept to the ways of your father Jehoshaphat or the ways of Asa, king of Judah, But have gone in the way of the kings of Israel, and have made Judah and the people of Jerusalem go after false gods, as the family of Ahab did: and because you have put to death your father's sons, your brothers, who were better than yourself: Now, truly, the Lord will send a great destruction on your people and your children and your wives and everything which is yours: read more.
And you yourself will undergo the cruel pains of a disease in your stomach, so that day by day your inside will be falling out because of the disease. Then the Philistines and the Arabians, who are by Ethiopia, were moved by the Lord to make war on Jehoram; And they came up against Judah, forcing a way into it, and took away all the goods in the king's house, as well as his sons and his wives; so that he had no son but only Jehoahaz, the youngest. And after all this the Lord sent on him a disease of the stomach from which it was impossible for him to be made well. And time went on, and after two years, his inside falling out because of the disease, he came to his death in cruel pain. And his people made no burning for him like the burning made for his fathers.

Disease » Instances of » Uzziah

2 Chronicles 26:17-20

And Azariah the priest went in after him, with eighty of the Lord's priests, who were strong men; And they made protests to Uzziah the king, and said to him, The burning of perfumes, Uzziah, is not your business but that of the priests, the sons of Aaron, who have been made holy for this work: go out of the holy place, for you have done wrong, and it will not be to your honour before God. Then Uzziah was angry; and he had in his hand a vessel for burning perfume; and while his wrath was bitter against the priests, the mark of the leper's disease came out on his brow, before the eyes of the priests in the house of the Lord by the altar of perfumes. read more.
And Azariah, the chief priest, and all the priests, looking at him, saw the mark of the leper on his brow, and they sent him out quickly and he himself went out straight away, for the Lord's punishment had come on him.

Disease » Remedies » Poultices

2 Kings 20:7

Then Isaiah said, Take a cake of figs. So they took it and put it on his wound, and he got better.

Disease » Remedies » Ointment

Isaiah 1:6

The body, from head to foot, is all diseased; it is a mass of open wounds, marks of blows, and broken flesh: the flow of blood has not been stopped, and no oil has been put on the wounds.

Disease » Instances of » David's child

2 Samuel 12:15

Then Nathan went back to his house. And the hand of the Lord was on David's son, the child of Uriah's wife, and it became very ill.

Disease » Instances of » Upon nabal

1 Samuel 25:38

And about ten days after, the Lord sent disease on Nabal and death came to him.

Disease » Instances of » Treatment of fractures

Ezekiel 30:21

Son of man, the arm of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, has been broken by me, and no band has been put round it to make it well, no band has been twisted round it to make it strong for gripping the sword.

Disease » Instances of » Jeroboam

2 Chronicles 13:20

And Jeroboam did not get back his power again in the life-time of Abijah; and the Lord sent death on him.

Disease » Instances of » Gehazi

2 Kings 5:27

Because of what you have done, the disease of Naaman the leper will take you in its grip, and your seed after you, for ever. And he went out from before him a leper as white as snow.

Disease » Instances of » Miraculous healing of, a sign to accompany the preaching of the word

Mark 16:18

They will take up snakes, and if there is poison in their drink, it will do them no evil; they will put their hands on those who are ill, and they will get well.

Disease » Instances of » Emulsions

Luke 10:34

And came to him and put clean linen round his wounds, with oil and wine; and he put him on his beast and took him to a house and took care of him.

Disease » Instances of » Poultices

2 Kings 20:7

Then Isaiah said, Take a cake of figs. So they took it and put it on his wound, and he got better.

Disease » Sent from God

Leviticus 14:34

When you have come into the land of Canaan which I will give you for your heritage, if I put the leper's disease on a house in the land of your heritage,

Feet » Were liable to » Disease

1 Kings 15:23

Now the rest of the acts of Asa, and his power, and all he did, and the towns of which he was the builder, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah? But when he was old he had a disease of the feet.

Hemorrhoids » Disease » Afflicted » Philistines

1 Samuel 5:6

But the hand of the Lord was hard on the people of Ashdod and he sent disease on them through all the country of Ashdod.

1 Samuel 6:4

Then they said, What sin-offering are we to send to him? And they said, Five gold images of the growths caused by your disease and five gold mice, one for every lord of the Philistines: for the same disease came on you and on your lords.

Deuteronomy 28:27

The Lord will send on you the disease of Egypt, and other sorts of skin diseases which nothing will make well.

1 Samuel 5:11

So they sent and got together all the lords of the Philistines, and they said, Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it go back to its place, so that it may not be the cause of death to us and to our people: for there was a great fear of death through all the town; the hand of God was very hard on them there.

1 Samuel 5:12

And those men who were not overtaken by death were cruelly diseased: and the cry of the town went up to heaven.

Insanity » Disease

Daniel 4:33

That very hour the order about Nebuchadnezzar was put into effect: and he was sent out from among men, and had grass for his food like the oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hair became long as eagles' feathers and his nails like those of birds.

Matthew 4:24

And news of him went out through all Syria; and they took to him all who were ill with different diseases and pains, those having evil spirits and those who were off their heads, and those who had no power of moving. And he made them well.

Matthew 17:15

Lord have mercy on my son: for he is off his head, and is in great pain; and frequently he goes falling into the fire, and frequently into the water.

Sin » Leads to » Disease

Job 20:11

His bones are full of young strength, but it will go down with him into the dust.

Spermatorrhea » Disease » Genital organs

Leviticus 15:16

And if a man's seed goes out from him, then all his body will have to be bathed in water and he will be unclean till evening.

Spiritual » Desire select readings, psalms 42; 84 » Disease

Jeremiah 8:22

Is there no life-giving oil in Gilead? is there no expert in medical arts? why then have my people not been made well?

Isaiah 1:5

Why will you have more and more punishment? why keep on in your evil ways? Every head is tired and every heart is feeble.

Micah 1:9

For her wounds may not be made well: for it has come even to Judah, stretching up to the doorway of my people, even to Jerusalem.

Mark 2:17

And Jesus, hearing it, said to them, Those who are well have no need of a medical man, but those who are ill: I have come not to get the upright but sinners.

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