39 Bible Verses about Sickness

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Matthew 9:35

And Jesus went about all the cities and towns, teaching in their assemblies, and proclaiming the good news of the kingdom, and curing every disease and every weakness in the people.

Deuteronomy 28:61

Also every disease and every blow which is not written in the book of this law, Jehovah will bring them up upon thee, till he destroyed thee.

Galatians 4:13

And ye know that through weakness of the flesh I announced the good news to you before.

Luke 4:40

And the sun setting, all as many as had sick ones with various diseases brought them to him; and he having put hands upon each one of them, cured them. .

2 Chronicles 21:15

And thou in great sicknesses in disease of thy bowels, till thy bowels shall come forth from the sickness days upon days.

2 Chronicles 21:18

And after all this Jehovah smote him in his bowels with a sickness for no healing

Exodus 23:25

And serve ye Jehovah your God, and he blessed thy bread, and thy waters; and I turned away disease from the midst of thee.

Isaiah 33:24

And the inhabitant shall not say, I was sick: to the people dwelling in it, iniquity was lifted up.

Deuteronomy 7:15

And Jehovah turned away from thee all sickness; and all the evil did-eases of Egypt which thou knewest, he will not put upon thee: and he will give them upon all hating thee.

2 Chronicles 16:12

And Asa in the thirty and ninth year to his kingdom will be diseased in his feet, his disease even to above: and also in his disease he sought not Jehovah but in physicians.

Matthew 8:14

And Jesus, having come into Peter's house, saw his mother-in-law having been laid up, and affected with fever.

Luke 8:43

And a woman being in a flowing of blood for twelve years, who having expended all the means of subsistence upon physicians, could not be cured by any.

Nahum 1:9

What will ye purpose against Jehovah? he made a completion: straits shall not rise up twice.

Nahum 1:11

From thee shall he come forth purposing evil against Jehovah, a counselor of Belial.

Ecclesiastes 5:17

Also all his days in darkness shall he eat, and much vexation and his sickness and his anger.

Exodus 15:26

And he will say, If hearkening thou wilt hear to the voice of Jehovah thy God, and thou wilt do the right in his eyes, and give ear to his commands, and watch all his laws, every disease which I put upon Egypt I will not put upon thee: for I am Jehovah healing thee.

Jeremiah 10:19

Wo to me for my breaking! my blow was sickly; and I said, Surely this a sickness, and I will bear it.

Luke 13:12

And having seen her, Jesus called to, and said to her, Woman, thou hest been loosed from thy weakness.

Revelation 2:22

Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them committing adultery with her into great pressure, except they repent of their works.

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2 Kings 8:8

And the king will say to Hamel, Take in:thy hand a gift, and go to the meeting of the man of God, and seek Jehovah from him, saying, Shall I live from this sickness?

Inquiring of God » Inquiring through the prophets, concerning perplexing questions » Sickness

2 Kings 8:8

And the king will say to Hamel, Take in:thy hand a gift, and go to the meeting of the man of God, and seek Jehovah from him, saying, Shall I live from this sickness?

Insomnia » Sickness

Job 30:17

The night my bones pierced from above me, and my gnawers will not lie down.

Job 7:4-5

If I lay down, and I said, When shall I arise, and the evening be measured? And I was filled with tossings even to the twilight And my flesh was clothed with worms, and a clod of dust; my akin was contracted and melted away.

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Punishment of the The Wicked » In this life by » Sickness

Leviticus 26:16

Surely I will do this to you, and I appointed over you terror, consumption, and burning fever, destroying the eyes and consuming the soul: and ye sowed in vain your seed, and your enemies shall eat it.

Psalm 78:50

He will prepare a beaten path for his anger; he spared not their soul from death, and their life he delivered to the word;

Sickness » Sometimes sent as a judgment for sin

Ecclesiastes 5:17

Also all his days in darkness shall he eat, and much vexation and his sickness and his anger.

Leviticus 26:15-16

And if ye shall reject my laws. and if your soul shall abhor my judgments so as not to do all my commands, to your breaking my covenant: Surely I will do this to you, and I appointed over you terror, consumption, and burning fever, destroying the eyes and consuming the soul: and ye sowed in vain your seed, and your enemies shall eat it.

Deuteronomy 28:61

Also every disease and every blow which is not written in the book of this law, Jehovah will bring them up upon thee, till he destroyed thee.

2 Chronicles 21:15

And thou in great sicknesses in disease of thy bowels, till thy bowels shall come forth from the sickness days upon days.

Sickness » Inflicted upon the wicked » The jews,promised special immunity from calamities

Exodus 12:13

And the blood was to you for a sign upon the houses where you are there: and I saw the blood and I passed over you, and the blow shall not be upon you to destroy, in my striking upon the land of Egypt

Exodus 15:26

And he will say, If hearkening thou wilt hear to the voice of Jehovah thy God, and thou wilt do the right in his eyes, and give ear to his commands, and watch all his laws, every disease which I put upon Egypt I will not put upon thee: for I am Jehovah healing thee.

Mark 16:18

They shall take up serpents; and should they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall put hands upon the sick, and they shall be well.

Exodus 8:22

And I separated in that day the land of Goshen, which my people stood upon it, for no gad-fly to be there; that thou shalt know that I am Jehovah in the midst of the earth.

Exodus 9:6

And Jehovah will do this word in the morrow, and all the cattle of Egypt will die: and from the cattle of the sons of Israel, not one died.

Sickness » The righteous suffer from

Acts 9:37

And it was in those days, having been sick, she died; and having washed, they laid her in an upper room.

Job 2:7

And the adversary will go forth from the face of Jehovah, and he will strike Job with an evil burning sore, from the sole of his foot even to his crown.

2 Kings 20:1

In those days Hezekiah was sick to death; and Isaiah son of Amos the prophet will come in to him, and he will say to him, Thus said Jehovah, Command to thy house, for thou art dying, and thou shalt not live.

2 Timothy 4:20

Erastus remained in Corinth: and Trophimus I left in Miletum sick.

Daniel 8:27

And I Daniel was, and was sick days; and I shall rise and do the works of the king; and I shall be astonished at the sight, and none understanding.

Sickness » Healing » Examples of apostolic

Acts 3:7

And having taken him by the right hand, he raised: and immediately his feet and ankles were rendered firm.

Acts 5:16

And a multitude also came together of them all around the cities to Jerusalem, bringing the sick, and the molested by unclean spirits: who were all healed.

Acts 9:34

And Peter said to him, Eneas, Jesus Christ heals thee; arise, and cover thyself. And he arose quickly.

Acts 14:10

Said with a great voice, Stand up upon thy feet upright.:And he leaped and walked.

Acts 16:18

And this did she for many days. And Paul, having been exercised, and having turned back to the spirit, said, I command thee in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her. And it came out the same hour.

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Sickness » Sent by God

Deuteronomy 32:39

See ye now, that I, I am he, And no God with me: I will kill, and I will preserve alive; I struck through and through, and I will heal; And none takes away out of my hand.

2 Samuel 12:15

And Nathan will go to his house. And Jehovah will strike the child which Uriah's wife bare to David and he will be sick.

Deuteronomy 28:59-61

And Jehovah made thy smiting wonderful, and the smitings of thy seed, great and lasting blows, and evil and lasting diseases. And he turned back upon thee all the sicknesses of Egypt, of which thou west afraid from their face, and they did cleave to thee. Also every disease and every blow which is not written in the book of this law, Jehovah will bring them up upon thee, till he destroyed thee.

Sickness » Often sent as a punishment of sin

2 Chronicles 21:12-15

And a writing will come to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, Thus said Jehovah God of David thy father, Because that thou didst not go in the ways of Jehoshaphat thy father, and in the ways of Asa king of Judah, And thou wilt go in the way of the kings of Israel, and thou wilt cause Judah to commit fornication, and those inhabiting Jerusalem, according to the fornications of the house of Ahab, and also thou didst kill thy brethren of the house of thy father, being good above thee. Behold, Jehovah smote a great stroke upon thy people, and upon thy sons, and upon thy wives, and upon all thy possessions: read more.
And thou in great sicknesses in disease of thy bowels, till thy bowels shall come forth from the sickness days upon days.

Leviticus 26:14-16

And if ye will not hear to me, and will not do all these commands; And if ye shall reject my laws. and if your soul shall abhor my judgments so as not to do all my commands, to your breaking my covenant: Surely I will do this to you, and I appointed over you terror, consumption, and burning fever, destroying the eyes and consuming the soul: and ye sowed in vain your seed, and your enemies shall eat it.

Sickness » Inflicted upon the wicked » Promises of immunity from

Exodus 15:26

And he will say, If hearkening thou wilt hear to the voice of Jehovah thy God, and thou wilt do the right in his eyes, and give ear to his commands, and watch all his laws, every disease which I put upon Egypt I will not put upon thee: for I am Jehovah healing thee.

Deuteronomy 7:15

And Jehovah turned away from thee all sickness; and all the evil did-eases of Egypt which thou knewest, he will not put upon thee: and he will give them upon all hating thee.

Proverbs 4:22

For they are life to those finding them, and healing to all their flesh.

Jeremiah 30:17

For I will bring up healing to thee, and I will heal thee of thy blows, says Jehovah: for they called to thee an outcast: This is Zion, none seeking for her.

Sickness » God » Heals

Deuteronomy 32:39

See ye now, that I, I am he, And no God with me: I will kill, and I will preserve alive; I struck through and through, and I will heal; And none takes away out of my hand.

Isaiah 38:5

Go and say to Hezekiah, Thus said Jehovah, the God of David thy father, I heard thy prayer; and I saw thy tears: behold, I will add to thy days fifteen years.

Isaiah 38:9

The writing to Hezekiah king of Judah in his being sick, and he will live from his sickness:

Sickness » Visiting those in, an evidence of belonging to Christ

Sickness » Saints » Acknowledge that, comes from God

Isaiah 38:12

Mine age removed, and was carried away from me as a shepherd's tent: I rolled together as a weaver my life: from the thread he will cut me off: from the day even to the night thou wilt finish me.

Psalm 31:1-8

To the overseer, chanting of David. In thee, O Jehovah, I put my trust, I shall not be ashamed forever: in thy justice deliver me. Incline thine ear to me, hastening to deliver me: be to me for a rock of strength, for a house of fortresses to save me. For thou my rock and my fortress; and for sake of thy name thou wilt guide me, and thou wilt protect me. read more.
Thou wilt bring me forth from the net which they concealed for me: for thou my fortress. Into thy hand I will commit my spirit: thou didst redeem me, O Jehovah God of truth. I hated those watching vanities of falsehood, and I trusted to Jehovah. I will rejoice and be glad in thy mercy, for thou sawest mine affliction; thou knewest my soul in straits; And thou didst not shut me up in the hand of the enemy: thou didst cause my feet to stand in a broad place.

Isaiah 38:15

What shall I speak? and he said to me, and he did: I shall go slowly all my years upon the bitterness of my soul.

Sickness » The power of healing » One of the miraculous gifts bestowed on the early church

1 Corinthians 12:30

All have not the favors of healing: not all speaking with tongues: not all interpret accurately.

Sickness » Saints » Praise God for recovery from

Isaiah 38:19

The living; the living, he shall praise thee, as from me this day the father to the sons shall make known for thy truth.

Psalm 103:1-3

To David. Praise Jehovah, O my soul, and all within me, his holy name. Praise Jehovah, O my soul, and thou wilt not forget all his acts. Forgiving to all thine iniquity, healing to all thy diseases.

Luke 17:15

And one of them, having seen that he was healed, turned back, with a great voice honouring God.

Sickness » Often incurable by human means

Deuteronomy 28:27

Jehovah shall strike thee with the burning sore of Egypt, and with tumors, and with scratching, and with the itch of which thou shalt not be able to be healed.

2 Chronicles 21:18

And after all this Jehovah smote him in his bowels with a sickness for no healing

Sickness » The apostles were endued with power to heal

Mark 16:18

They shall take up serpents; and should they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall put hands upon the sick, and they shall be well.

Sickness » God » Often manifests saving grace to sinners during

Job 33:19-24

And he was chastened with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones perpetually. His life loathed bread, and his soul food of desire. His flesh will consume away from seeing, and they saw not the nakedness of his bones. read more.
And his soul will draw near to the pit, and his life to the dead. If there is a messenger upon him, an interpreter, one from a thousand, to announce to man his uprightness: And he will compassionate him and say, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I found an expiation.

Psalm 107:17-21

Being turned away from the way of their transgression, they will be humbled from their iniquities. Their soul will abhor all food, and they will draw near to the gates of death. And they will cry to Jehovah in straits to them; he will save them from their distresses. read more.
He will send his word and heal them, and he will deliver them from their destructions. They shall confess to Jehovah his mercy, and his wonders to the sons of man.

Sickness » Not visiting those in, an evidence of not belonging to Christ

Matthew 25:43

I was a stranger and ye brought me not in; naked, and ye put not around me; sick, and in prison, and ye took not a view of me.

Matthew 25:45

Then shall he answer them saying, Inasmuch as ye did not to one of the least of these, ye did not to me.

Sickness » Christ compassionated those in

Matthew 8:16-17

And evening being come, they brought him many possessed with evil spirits: and he east out the spirits by the word, and cured all having evils: So that that spoken by Esaias the prophet was completed, saying. He took our weakness, and lifted up diseases.

Isaiah 53:4

Surely he lifted up our afflictions, and our griefs he carried them: and we reckoned him to be smitten, struck of God, and afflicted.

Sickness » God » Hears the prayers of those in

Psalm 107:18-20

Their soul will abhor all food, and they will draw near to the gates of death. And they will cry to Jehovah in straits to them; he will save them from their distresses. He will send his word and heal them, and he will deliver them from their destructions.

Sickness » God » Promises to heal

2 Kings 20:5

Turn back and say to Hezekiah the leader of my people, Thus said Jehovah, God of David thy father, I heard thy prayer, I saw thy tears: behold me healing thee: in the third day thou shalt go up to the house of Jehovah.

Exodus 23:25

And serve ye Jehovah your God, and he blessed thy bread, and thy waters; and I turned away disease from the midst of thee.

Sickness » Christ healed » With a word

Matthew 8:8

And the captain of a hundred having answered said, Lord, I am not fit that thou shouldest enter in under my roof: but only say the word, and my servant shall be healed.

Matthew 8:13

And Jesus said to the captain of a hundred, Retire; as thou hast believed, let it be to thee. And his servant was healed in that hour.

Sickness » Pray for those afflicted with

Acts 28:8

And it was the father of Publius lay, held fast with fever and dysentery: to whom Paul, having come in and prayed, laid hands upon him, and healed him.

James 5:14-15

Is any sick among you let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, having anointed him with oil in the name of the Lord: And the prayer of faith shall save him being sick, and the Lord will raise him up; and if he should have wrought sins, it shall be remitted to him.

Sickness » Christ healed » Being present

Mark 1:31

And having come, he raised her, having held her hand; and the fever quickly left her, and she served them.

Sickness » Saints » Thank God publicly for recovery from

Acts 3:8

And springing forth he stood, and walked, and entered with them into the temple, walking, and springing, and praising God.

Isaiah 38:20

Jehovah to save me; and striking my stringed instruments all the days of our life for the house of Jehovah.

Sickness » Christ healed » By imposition of hands

Sickness » God's aid should be sought in

2 Chronicles 16:12

And Asa in the thirty and ninth year to his kingdom will be diseased in his feet, his disease even to above: and also in his disease he sought not Jehovah but in physicians.

Sickness » Illustrative of sin

Leviticus 13:45-46

And the leprous in whom the stroke, his garments shall be rent, and his head shall be uncovered, and upon the lips he shall be covered, and he shall cry, Unclean, unlcean. All the days which the stroke is in him, he shall be unclean: he is unclean: he shall dwell separately; without the camp is his dwelling.

Sickness » The wicked » A large amount » Sorrow

Ecclesiastes 5:17

Also all his days in darkness shall he eat, and much vexation and his sickness and his anger.

Sickness » Christ healed » Through the touch of his garment

Matthew 14:35-36

And the men of the place, having known him, sent into the whole country round about, and brought to him all those having evils: And besought him that they might only touch the hem of his garment: and as many as touched were saved from danger.

Sickness » God » Exhibits his mercy in healing

Sickness » One of God's four sore judgments on a guilty land

Ezekiel 14:19-21

Or I shall send death to that land, and I poured out my wrath upon it in blood, to cut off from it man and cattle And Noah, Daniel, and Job, in its midst, I live, says the Lord Jehovah, if son if daughter they shall deliver; they by their justice shall deliver their soul. For thus said the Lord Jehovah: Also if I sent my four evil judgments, sword and famine, and the evil beast, and death to Jerusalem, to cut off from it man and cattle?

Sickness » Faith required in those healed of, by Christ

Matthew 9:28-29

And having come into the house, the blind came to him: and Jesus says to them, Believe ye that I can do this? They say to him, Yes, Lord. Then touched he their eyes, saying, According to your faith be it to you.

Sickness » The wicked » Forsake those in

1 Samuel 30:13

And David will say to him, To whom thou? and from whence thou? and the boy, the Egyptian, will say, I servant to a man, an Amalekite; and my lord left me because I was sick the the third day.

Sickness » God » Persecutes the wicked by

Jeremiah 29:18

And I pursued after them with the sword, with famine and with death, and I gave them for agitation to all the kingdoms of the earth, for a curse and for astonishment, and for hissing and for a reproach among all the nations which I thrust them away there:

Sickness » God » Abandons the wicked to

Jeremiah 34:17

For this, thus said Jehovah, Ye heard not to me to call liberty, a man to his brother and a man to his neighbor behold me calling to you lliberty, says Jehovah, to the sword, to the death and to the famine; and I gave you for agitation to all the kingdoms of the earth.

Sickness » The wicked » Visit not those in

Matthew 25:43

I was a stranger and ye brought me not in; naked, and ye put not around me; sick, and in prison, and ye took not a view of me.

Sickness » Saints » Pray for recovery from

Isaiah 38:2-3

And Hezekiah will turn his face to the wall and pray to Jehovah. And he will say, O Jehovah, remember now how I went before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and I did the good in thine eyes: And Hezekiah will weep a great weeping.

Sickness » Saints » Visit those in

Sickness » Healing of, lawful on the sabbath

Luke 13:14-16

And the ruler of the assembly having answered, feeling pain because Jesus cured on the sabbath, said to the crowd, Six days there are in which they ought to work; in those therefore, coming, be ye cured, and not the day of the sabbath. Then answered the Lord and said, Hypocrite, does not each of you on the sabbath loose his ox or ass from the stall, and leading away, give to drink? And this being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has bound, behold, eighteen years, ought she not to be loosed from this bond the day of the sabbath

Sickness » Christ healed » Not being present

Matthew 8:13

And Jesus said to the captain of a hundred, Retire; as thou hast believed, let it be to thee. And his servant was healed in that hour.

Sickness » Saints » Ascribe recovery from, to God

Isaiah 38:20

Jehovah to save me; and striking my stringed instruments all the days of our life for the house of Jehovah.

Sickness » Saints » Mourn under, with prayer

Isaiah 38:14

As the twittering swallow so shall I chirp: I shall murmur as the dove: mine eyes languished for height: O Jehovah, oppression is to me; be surety for me.

Sickness » God » Exhibits his love in healing

Isaiah 38:17

Behold, for peace bitterness, to me bitterness: and thou didst cleave to my soul from the pit of destruction: and thou didst cast all my sin behind my back

Sickness » God » Preserves saints in time of

Psalm 91:3-7

For he will deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, from the word of ruin. He will cover thee with his wing feathers, and under his wings thou shalt trust: his truth a shield and buckler. Thou Shalt not be afraid from terror the night; from the arrow that will fly the day; read more.
From the word that shall go in darkness: from the cutting off that shall lay waste the noon-day. A thousand shall fall from thy side, and ten thousand from thy right hand; and to thee it shall not reach.

Sickness » Christ healed » With a touch

Matthew 8:3

And having stretched forth the hand, Jesus touched him, saying, I will; be thou cleansed and instantly his leprosy was cleansed.

Sickness » Saints » Feel for others in

Psalm 35:13

And I, in their being sick, my clothing sackcloth: I humbled my soul in fasting, and my prayer shall be turned back upon my bosom.

Sickness » God » Strengthens saints in

Sickness » God » Comforts saints in

Sickness » God » Permits saints to be tried by

Job 2:5-6

But send forth now thy hand and touch upon his bone and upon his flesh, if he will not bless thee to thy face. And Jehovah will say to the adversary, Behold him in thy hand, but watch his soul

Sickness » God » Exhibits his power in healing

Luke 5:17

And it was in one of the days, and he was teaching, and the Pharisees and teachers of the law were sitting, who were come out of every town of Galilee, and Judea, and Jerusalem; and the power of the Lord was for healing them.

Sickness » The devil sometimes permitted to inflict

Job 2:6-7

And Jehovah will say to the adversary, Behold him in thy hand, but watch his soul And the adversary will go forth from the face of Jehovah, and he will strike Job with an evil burning sore, from the sole of his foot even to his crown.

Sickness » Often brought on by intemperance

Hosea 7:5

The day of our king the chiefs began anger from wine; stretching forth his hand with mockers.

Sickness » Saints » Are resigned under

Job 2:10

And he will say to her, According to the word of one of the foolish women thou wilt speak. Shall we also receive good from God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this. Job sinned not with his lips.

Sleeplessness » Common causes of loss of sleep » Sickness

Job 30:17

The night my bones pierced from above me, and my gnawers will not lie down.

Job 7:4-5

If I lay down, and I said, When shall I arise, and the evening be measured? And I was filled with tossings even to the twilight And my flesh was clothed with worms, and a clod of dust; my akin was contracted and melted away.

Topics on Sickness

Christ's Authority Over Sickness

Matthew 8:14-15

And Jesus, having come into Peter's house, saw his mother-in-law having been laid up, and affected with fever.

Healing Sickness

Matthew 9:35

And Jesus went about all the cities and towns, teaching in their assemblies, and proclaiming the good news of the kingdom, and curing every disease and every weakness in the people.

Sin Brings Sickness

Ezekiel 4:17

So that they shall want bread and water, and they were astonished, a man and his brother, and they were melted in their iniquity.

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