39 Bible Verses about Sickness
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And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness, and all manner of disease among the people.
And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness, and every disease among the people.
Also every sickness, and every plague which is not written in the book of this law, them will the LORD bring upon thee, until thou art destroyed.
Ye know that in infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel to you at the first.
Now when the sun was setting, all they that had any sick with divers diseases, brought them to him: and he laid his hands on every one of them, and healed them.
And after all this the LORD smote him in his bowels with an incurable disease.
And ye shall serve the LORD your God, and he will bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee.
The LORD will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness.
When Jesus heard that, he said, This sickness is not to death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified by it.
And the inhabitants shall not say, I am sick: the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity.
And the LORD will take away from thee all sickness, and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt (which thou knowest) upon thee; but will lay them upon all them that hate thee.
And behold, there was a woman who had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bowed together, and could in no wise raise herself.
And Asa in the thirty and ninth year of his reign was diseased in his feet, until his disease was exceedingly severe: yet in his disease he sought not to the LORD, but to the physicians.
And heal the sick that are therein, and say to them, The kingdom of God is come nigh to you.
And when Jesus had come into Peter's house, he saw his wife's mother laid, and sick with a fever.
And when he had called to him his twelve disciples, he gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness, and all manner of disease.
And God will wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things have passed away.
And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, who had spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed by any,
That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying, He himself took our infirmities, and bore our sicknesses.
What do ye imagine against the LORD? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time.
There is one come out of thee, that imagineth evil against the LORD, a wicked counselor.
All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he hath much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.
And to Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;
And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes; I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians; for I am the LORD that healeth thee.
Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is a grief, and I must bear it.
And when Jesus saw her, he called her to him, and said to her, Woman, thou art loosed from thy infirmity.
Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds.
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Enquiring of God » Inquiring through the prophets, concerning perplexing questions » Sickness
And the king said to Hazael, Take a present in thy hand, and go, meet the man of God, and inquire of the LORD by him, saying, Shall I recover of this disease?
Inquiring of God » Inquiring through the prophets, concerning perplexing questions » Sickness
And the king said to Hazael, Take a present in thy hand, and go, meet the man of God, and inquire of the LORD by him, saying, Shall I recover of this disease?
Insomnia » Sickness
When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? and I am full of tossings to and fro to the dawning of the day. My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken and become lothsome.
Israel » Sickness » hezekiah » Miracle » Restoration
Punishment of the The Wicked » In this life by » Sickness
I also will do this to you, I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;
Sickness » Sometimes sent as a judgment for sin
All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he hath much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.
And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul shall abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant: I also will do this to you, I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
Also every sickness, and every plague which is not written in the book of this law, them will the LORD bring upon thee, until thou art destroyed.
Sickness » Inflicted upon the wicked » The jews,promised special immunity from calamities
And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.
And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes; I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians; for I am the LORD that healeth thee.
They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.
And I will sever in that day the land of Goshen, in which my people dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be there; to the end thou mayest know that I am the LORD in the midst of the earth.
And the LORD did that thing on the morrow, and all the cattle of Egypt died: but of the cattle of the children of Israel died not one.
Sickness » The righteous suffer from
And it came to pass in those days, that she was sick, and died: whom, when they had washed, they laid in an upper chamber.
So Satan went forth from the presence of the LORD, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot to his crown.
In those days was Hezekiah sick to death. And the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz came to him, and said to him, Thus saith the LORD, Set thy house in order; for thou shalt die, and not live.
Erastus abode at Corinth: but Trophimus I have left at Miletum sick.
And I Daniel fainted, and was sick certain days; afterward I rose, and did the king's business; and I was astonished at the vision, but none understood it.
Sickness » Healing » Examples of apostolic
And he took him by the right hand, and lifted him up: and immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength.
There came also a multitude out of the cities around to Jerusalem, bringing sick persons, and them who were afflicted with unclean spirits: and they were healed every one.
And Peter said to him, Eneas, Jesus Christ healeth thee: arise, and make thy bed. And he arose immediately.
Said with a loud voice, Stand upright on thy feet. And he leaped and walked.
And this she did many days. But Paul being grieved, turned and said to the spirit, I command thee in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her. And he came out the same hour.
Sickness » Sent by God
And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory: and he was eaten by worms, and died.
See now that I, even I am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.
And Nathan departed to his house. And the LORD struck the child that Uriah's wife bore to David, and it was very sick.
Then the LORD will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and severe sicknesses, and of long continuance. Moreover, he will bring upon thee all the diseases of Egypt, of which thou wast afraid; and they shall cleave to thee. Also every sickness, and every plague which is not written in the book of this law, them will the LORD bring upon thee, until thou art destroyed.
Sickness » Often sent as a punishment of sin
And there came a writing to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, Thus saith the LORD God of David thy father, Because thou hast not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat thy father, nor in the ways of Asa king of Judah, But hast walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and hast made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit idolatry, like the idolatries of the house of Ahab, and also hast slain thy brethren of thy father's house, who were better than thyself: Behold, with a great plague will the LORD smite thy people, and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy goods: read more.
And thou shalt have great sickness by disease of thy bowels, until thy bowels fall out by reason of the sickness day by day.
But if ye will not hearken to me, and will not do all these commandments; And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul shall abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant: I also will do this to you, I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
Sickness » Inflicted upon the wicked » Promises of immunity from
And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes; I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians; for I am the LORD that healeth thee.
And the LORD will take away from thee all sickness, and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt (which thou knowest) upon thee; but will lay them upon all them that hate thee.
For they are life to those that find them, and health to all their flesh.
For I will restore health to thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the LORD; because they called thee an Outcast, saying, This is Zion, whom no man seeketh after.
Sickness » God » Heals
See now that I, even I am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.
Go and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will add to thy days fifteen years.
The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and had recovered from his sickness:
Sickness » Visiting those in, an evidence of belonging to Christ
Then will the King say to them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:
And the king will answer and say to them, Verily I say to you, Inasmuch as ye have done it to one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it to me.
Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came to me.
Sickness » Saints » Acknowledge that, comes from God
My age hath departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in thy righteousness. Bow down thy ear to me; deliver me speedily: be thou my strong rock, for a house of defense to save me. For thou art my rock and my fortress; therefore for thy name's sake lead me, and guide me. read more.
Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me: for thou art my strength. Into thy hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O LORD God of truth. I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the LORD. I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou hast considered my trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities; And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my foot in a large room.
What shall I say? he hath both spoken to me, and himself hath done it: I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.
Sickness » The power of healing » One of the miraculous gifts bestowed on the early church
To another, faith by the same Spirit; to another, the gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
Sickness » Saints » Praise God for recovery from
The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.
A Psalm of David. Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name. Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits: Who forgiveth all thy iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases;
And one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, and with a loud voice glorified God,
Sickness » Often incurable by human means
The LORD will smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scab, and with the itch, of which thou canst not be healed.
And after all this the LORD smote him in his bowels with an incurable disease.
Sickness » The apostles were endued with power to heal
And when he had called to him his twelve disciples, he gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness, and all manner of disease.
And they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following. Amen.
They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.
Sickness » God » Often manifests saving grace to sinners during
He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong pain: So that his life abhorreth bread, and his soul dainty food. His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones that were not seen stick out. read more.
Yes, his soul draweth near to the grave, and his life to the destroyers. If there is a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to show to man his uprightness: Then he is gracious to him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.
Fools, because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted. Their soul abhorreth all manner of food; and they draw near to the gates of death. Then they cry to the LORD in their trouble, he saveth them out of their distresses. read more.
He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions. Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!
Sickness » Not visiting those in, an evidence of not belonging to Christ
I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
Then will he answer them, saying, Verily I say to you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.
Sickness » Christ compassionated those in
When the evening was come, they brought to him many that were possessed with demons: and he cast out the spirits with his word, and healed all that were sick; That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying, He himself took our infirmities, and bore our sicknesses.
Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted.
Sickness » God » Hears the prayers of those in
Their soul abhorreth all manner of food; and they draw near to the gates of death. Then they cry to the LORD in their trouble, he saveth them out of their distresses. He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.
Sickness » God » Promises to heal
Turn again, and tell Hezekiah the captain of my people, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will heal thee: on the third day thou shalt go up to the house of the LORD.
And ye shall serve the LORD your God, and he will bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee.
Sickness » Christ healed » With a word
The centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldst come under my roof: but speak the word only, and my servant will be healed.
And Jesus said to the centurion, Depart; and as thou hast believed, so be it done to thee. And his servant was healed in the same hour.
Sickness » Pray for those afflicted with
And it came to pass that the father of Publius lay sick with a fever, and a bloody-flux: to whom Paul entered in, and prayed, and laid his hands on him, and healed him.
Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: And the prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up; and if he hath committed sins, they will be forgiven him.
Sickness » Christ healed » Being present
And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness, and all manner of disease among the people.
And he came and took her by the hand, and lifted her up; and immediately the fever left her, and she ministered to them.
Sickness » Saints » Thank God publicly for recovery from
And he leaping up stood, and walked, and entered with them into the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God.
The LORD was ready to save me: therefore we will sing my songs to the stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of the LORD.
Sickness » Christ healed » By imposition of hands
And he could there do no mighty work, save that he laid his hands upon a few sick persons, and healed them.
Sickness » God's aid should be sought in
And Asa in the thirty and ninth year of his reign was diseased in his feet, until his disease was exceedingly severe: yet in his disease he sought not to the LORD, but to the physicians.
Sickness » Illustrative of sin
And the leper in whom the plague is, his clothes shall be rent, and his head bare, and he shall put a covering upon his upper lip, and shall cry, Unclean, unclean. All the days in which the plague shall be in him he shall be defiled; he is unclean: he shall dwell alone, without the camp shall his habitation be.
Sickness » The wicked » A large amount » Sorrow
All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he hath much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.
Sickness » Christ healed » Through the touch of his garment
And when the men of that place had knowledge of him, they sent out into all the surrounding country, and brought to him all that were diseased; And besought him that they might only touch the hem of his garment: and as many as touched were restored to health.
Sickness » God » Exhibits his mercy in healing
For indeed he was sick nigh to death: but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.
Sickness » One of God's four sore judgments on a guilty land
Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my fury upon it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast: Though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither son nor daughter; they shall deliver their own souls only by their righteousness. For thus saith the Lord GOD; How much more when I send my four severe judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the noisome beast, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast?
Sickness » Faith required in those healed of, by Christ
And when he had come into the house, the blind men came to him: and Jesus saith to them, Believe ye that I am able to do this? They said to him, Yes, Lord. Then he touched their eyes, saying, According to your faith, be it to you.
Sickness » The wicked » Forsake those in
And David said to him, To whom belongest thou? and whence art thou? And he said, I am a young man of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite; and my master left me, because three days ago I fell sick.
Sickness » God » Persecutes the wicked by
And I will persecute them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be removed to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, and an astonishment, and a hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations whither I have driven them:
Sickness » God » Abandons the wicked to
Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ye have not hearkened to me, in proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother, and every man to his neighbor: behold, I proclaim a liberty for you, saith the LORD, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.
Sickness » The wicked » Visit not those in
I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
Sickness » Saints » Pray for recovery from
Then Hezekiah turned his face towards the wall, and prayed to the LORD, And said, Remember now, O LORD, I beseech thee, how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
Sickness » Saints » Visit those in
Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came to me.
Sickness » Healing of, lawful on the sabbath
And the ruler of the synagogue answered with indignation, because Jesus had healed on the sabbath, and said to the people, There are six days in which men ought to work: in them therefore come and be healed, and not on the sabbath. The Lord then answered him, and said, Thou hypocrite, doth not each one of you on the sabbath loose his ox or his ass from the stall, and lead him away to watering? And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, to be loosed from this bond on the Sabbath?
Sickness » Christ healed » Not being present
And Jesus said to the centurion, Depart; and as thou hast believed, so be it done to thee. And his servant was healed in the same hour.
Sickness » Saints » Ascribe recovery from, to God
The LORD was ready to save me: therefore we will sing my songs to the stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of the LORD.
Sickness » Saints » Mourn under, with prayer
Like a crane or a swallow, so I chattered: I mourned as a dove: my eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.
Sickness » God » Exhibits his love in healing
Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.
Sickness » God » Preserves saints in time of
Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence. He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler. Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day; read more.
Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noon-day. A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee.
Sickness » Christ healed » With a touch
And Jesus put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will; be thou clean. And immediately his leprosy was cleansed.
Sickness » Saints » Feel for others in
But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into my own bosom.
Sickness » God » Strengthens saints in
The LORD will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness.
Sickness » God » Comforts saints in
The LORD will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness.
Sickness » God » Permits saints to be tried by
But put forth thy hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face. And the LORD said to Satan, Behold, he is in thy hand; but save his life.
Sickness » God » Exhibits his power in healing
And it came to pass on a certain day, as he was teaching, that there were Pharisees and doctors of the law sitting by, who had come out of every town of Galilee, and Judea, and Jerusalem: and the power of the Lord was present to heal them.
Sickness » The devil sometimes permitted to inflict
And the LORD said to Satan, Behold, he is in thy hand; but save his life. So Satan went forth from the presence of the LORD, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot to his crown.
Sickness » Often brought on by intemperance
In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners.
Sickness » Saints » Are resigned under
But he said to her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.
Sleeplessness » Common causes of loss of sleep » Sickness
When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? and I am full of tossings to and fro to the dawning of the day. My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken and become lothsome.
Topics on Sickness
Agony, Sickness
Jeremiah 15:18Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be altogether to me as a liar, and as waters that fail?
Christ's Authority Over Sickness
Matthew 8:14-15And when Jesus had come into Peter's house, he saw his wife's mother laid, and sick with a fever.
Divine Care In Sickness
Psalm 41:3The LORD will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness.
Healing Sickness
Matthew 9:35And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness, and every disease among the people.
Sin Brings Sickness
Ezekiel 4:17That they may want bread and water, and be astonished one with another, and consume away for their iniquity.