31 Bible Verses about Disease
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Jehovah will take away every sickness from you. He will not afflict you with any of the evil diseases of Egypt, which you have known. He will put them on all who hate you.
He said: If you will listen carefully to Jehovah your God and do what he considers right, if you pay attention to his commands and obey all his laws, I will never make you suffer any of the diseases I made the Egyptians suffer. I am Jehovah, who heals you.
In the thirty-ninth year that Asa was king a severe foot disease crippled him. Even then he did not turn to Jehovah for help, but to doctors.
You must serve Jehovah your God! I will bless your food and water. I will take away all sickness from among you.
He will bring all the diseases of Egypt that you dreaded. They will cling to you.
My insides are filled with burning pain, and no healthy spot is left on my body.
After this happened; Jehovah struck Jehoram with an incurable stomach disease.
Jehovah will strike you with the boils of Egypt and with tumors and with the scab and with the itch, from which you cannot be healed.
There will be great earthquakes. There will be famines and pestilences in various places. There shall be terrors and great signs from heaven.
Satan left Jehovah's presence and struck Job with painful boils from the bottom of his feet to the top of his head.
Jesus walked all over Galilee teaching in the synagogues. He preached the Good News about the Kingdom. He also healed every kind of disease and infirmity among the people.
He took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows. We considered him stricken by God, smitten by him, and afflicted.
If so, Jehovah will strike you and your descendants with unimaginable plagues. They will be terrible continuing plagues. They will be severe and lingering diseases.
He called his twelve disciples. He gave them power to cast out unclean spirits and to heal all kinds of disease and sickness.
Naaman's leprosy will come upon you. You and your descendants will have it from generation to generation! When Gehazi left, he had the disease. His skin was as white as snow.
He will sprinkle the blood seven times on the one of you who is to be purified from your skin disease. He will then pronounce you clean. He will let the live bird fly away over the open fields.
Jehovah will strike you with infectious diseases, with swelling and fever. He will send drought and scorching winds to destroy your crops. These disasters will be with you until you die.
King Hezekiah became sick and almost died. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz went to see him. Isaiah said to him: Jehovah tells you: 'You are to put everything in order because you will not recover. Get ready to die.'
He is the one who will rescue you from the bird hunter's trap (fowler's snare) and from deadly plagues.
You will be affected by a painful stomach disease and suffer until you die.
He gave them what they asked for. He also gave them a degenerative disease.
A sound heart is life for the body. Envy (jealousy) is like bone cancer (decay) (rottenness to the bones).
After the smoke left the tent, Miriam was covered with an infectious skin disease. She was as white as snow. Aaron turned to her and saw she was covered with the disease.
I will restore your health and heal your wounds, proclaims Jehovah. People call you an outcast: 'Zion, no one cares for you.'
The plague will be that Jehovah will strike all the peoples that have gone to war against Jerusalem! Their flesh will wither away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes will wither away in their sockets, and their tongue will wither away in their mouth.
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Disease » Sent as a judgment » Disease sent
Naaman's leprosy will come upon you. You and your descendants will have it from generation to generation! When Gehazi left, he had the disease. His skin was as white as snow.
Immediately the angel of God killed him, because he did not give God the glory. He was eaten by worms and died.
Uzziah held an incense burner in his hand. He became angry. As his anger with the priests grew, a skin disease broke out on his forehead. This happened in front of the priests in Jehovah's Temple as Uzziah was at the incense altar.
Jehovah dealt harshly with the people of Ashdod. He destroyed them by striking the people in the vicinity of Ashdod with tumors.
Aaron took his incense burner, as Moses told him. He ran into the middle of the assembly, because the plague had already begun among the people. He put incense on the incense burner to make peace with Jehovah for the people.
Disease » Sent as a judgment » Sometimes sent as a judgment for sin
For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.
All his days he eats in darkness. He has much sorrow and anger with his sickness.
if you reject my laws and look at my rules with disgust, if you reject my promise by disobeying my commandments, then this is what I will do to you: I will terrorize you with disease and fever. You will suffer from eye problems and depression. You will plant your crops and get nothing because your enemies will eat them.
Jehovah will also bring you every kind of sickness and plague not written in this Book of the Law. They will continue until you are dead.
You will be affected by a painful stomach disease and suffer until you die.
Disease » Remedies » Quarantine
You remain unclean as long as you have the disease. You must live outside the camp, away from others.
You must wash your clothes, shave off all your hair, and take a bath. You will then be ritually clean. You may enter the camp. You must live outside your tent for seven days.
Command the Israelites to send outside the camp anyone who has a serious skin disease or a discharge or anyone who is unclean from touching a dead body.
Jehovah sent disease on the king and he became a leper. To the day of his death he lived separately in his private house. Jotham his son was over his house, judging the people of the land.
Disease » Prevention and cure of » Physicians
Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician (healer) there? Why then has the health of the daughter of my people not been restored?
In the thirty-ninth year that Asa was king a severe foot disease crippled him. Even then he did not turn to Jehovah for help, but to doctors.
When he heard it, he said: People who are well do not have need of a physician. The sick do.
Disease » Healed » Physicians employed in
Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician (healer) there? Why then has the health of the daughter of my people not been restored?
In the thirty-ninth year that Asa was king a severe foot disease crippled him. Even then he did not turn to Jehovah for help, but to doctors.
When he heard it, he said: People who are well do not have need of a physician. The sick do.
Disease » Good men afflicted with » The righteous suffer from
She was sick, and died. They washed her body and laid her in an upper chamber.
Satan left Jehovah's presence and struck Job with painful boils from the bottom of his feet to the top of his head.
Hezekiah became ill and was about to die. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz said to him: This is what Jehovah says: 'Give final instructions to your household. You will not recover. You will die.'
I, Daniel, fainted from exhaustion, and was sick for days. Then I rose up, and did the king's business. I wondered about the vision, but none understood it.
Disease » Healed » Examples of apostolic
He took him by the right hand, and lifted him up. Immediately his feet and anklebones received strength.
Crowds came from the cities near Jerusalem. They brought sick people and people with unclean spirits and everyone of them was healed.
Peter said to him: Aeneas, Jesus Christ makes you whole! Stand up and take your bed. And he stood up immediately.
said with a loud voice: Stand up on your feet! And he leaped up and walked.
She did this for many days. This troubled Paul. So he turned and said to the spirit, I charge you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her! And it came out that very hour.
Disease » Prevention and cure of » Medicine
Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician (healer) there? Why then has the health of the daughter of my people not been restored?
Go to Gilead, and get medicine, dear people of Egypt. You have used many medicines without results and cannot be cured.
A merry heart is good medicine but a broken spirit dries up the bones.
No one argues that you should be healed. But no medicine will heal you.
All kinds of fruit trees will grow on both sides of the river. Their leaves will not wither, and they will not fail to produce fruit. Each month they will produce fresh fruit because this water flows from the Holy Place. The fruit will be good food, and the leaves will be used for healing.
Disease » Remedies » General references
From the bottom of your feet to the top of your head there is no healthy spot left on your body. You have only bruises, sores, and fresh wounds. They have not been cleansed, bandaged, or soothed with oil.
He went to him and bandaged his wounds pouring oil and wine on them. He set him on his own beast and brought him to an inn to take care of him.
Is any among you sick? Let him call the elders of the congregation. Let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of God.
Then Isaiah said: Get a fig cake, and put it on the boil so that the king will get well.
Do not drink water any longer, but use a little wine for your stomach's sake and your many infirmities.
Disease » Healed » The gift of
He called his twelve disciples. He gave them power to cast out unclean spirits and to heal all kinds of disease and sickness.
They will pick up and handle serpents. Deadly drink will not hurt them. They will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.
To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the one Spirit;
Disease » Instances of » Healing of, from God
He said: If you will listen carefully to Jehovah your God and do what he considers right, if you pay attention to his commands and obey all his laws, I will never make you suffer any of the diseases I made the Egyptians suffer. I am Jehovah, who heals you.
In the thirty-ninth year that Asa was king a severe foot disease crippled him. Even then he did not turn to Jehovah for help, but to doctors.
You must serve Jehovah your God! I will bless your food and water. I will take away all sickness from among you.
Jehovah will take away every sickness from you. He will not afflict you with any of the evil diseases of Egypt, which you have known. He will put them on all who hate you.
Disease » Healed » The dumb healed
The lame will leap and dance, and those who cannot speak will shout for joy. Streams of water will flow through the desert plain.
Someone possessed with a demon, blind and dumb was brought to him. He healed him and the dumb man spoke and could see.
When Jesus saw the people he ordered the unclean spirit to come out of him. He commanded the spirit that caused the loss of voice and hearing to leave and never return to him.
When the demon was cast out, the dumb man spoke. The crowd marveled, saying: We have never seen anything like this in Israel!
Disease » Instances of » Physicians employed for
Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician (healer) there? Why then has the health of the daughter of my people not been restored?
In the thirty-ninth year that Asa was king a severe foot disease crippled him. Even then he did not turn to Jehovah for help, but to doctors.
When he heard it, he said: People who are well do not have need of a physician. The sick do.
Then he said: You will no doubt say this proverb to me, physician heal yourself. That which we heard was done at Capernaum do also here in your own country.
She suffered treatment from many physicians but did not become better. She spent all her money and grew worse.
Disease » Instances of » Remedies used
Go to Gilead, and get medicine, dear people of Egypt. You have used many medicines without results and cannot be cured.
Isaiah said: Prepare a poultice of figs and apply it to the boil, and he will recover.
A merry heart is good medicine but a broken spirit dries up the bones.
No one argues that you should be healed. But no medicine will heal you.
Disease » Instances of » Threatened as judgments
then this is what I will do to you: I will terrorize you with disease and fever. You will suffer from eye problems and depression. You will plant your crops and get nothing because your enemies will eat them.
Jehovah will strike you with infectious diseases, with swelling and fever. He will send drought and scorching winds to destroy your crops. These disasters will be with you until you die.
Jehovah will strike you on the knees and legs with sore boils. From the sole of your foot to the crown of your head they will not heal.
Jehovah will take away every sickness from you. He will not afflict you with any of the evil diseases of Egypt, which you have known. He will put them on all who hate you.
Jehovah will strike you with the boils of Egypt and with tumors and with the scab and with the itch, from which you cannot be healed. You will become insane and go blind. Jehovah will make you so confused,
Disease » Remedies » Disinfection
He must have the entire inside of the house scraped. The plaster dust scraped off the walls must be dumped in an unclean place outside the city.
Those who touch his bed must wash their clothes and their bodies. They will be unclean until evening.
Disease » Instances of » Of the sexual organs
Command the Israelites to send outside the camp anyone who has a serious skin disease or a discharge or anyone who is unclean from touching a dead body.
None of the descendants of Aaron who has a dreaded skin disease or a discharge may eat any of the sacred offerings until he is ritually clean. Any priest is unclean if he touches anything that is unclean through contact with a corpse or if he has an emission of semen
If there is among you any man who is unclean because of a nocturnal emission he must go outside the camp. He may not reenter the camp.
Disease » Figurative
From the bottom of your feet to the top of your head there is no healthy spot left on your body. You have only bruises, sores, and fresh wounds. They have not been cleansed, bandaged, or soothed with oil.
My insides are filled with burning pain, and no healthy spot is left on my body.
This is what Jehovah says: Your wound is incurable. Your injury is beyond healing.
Disease » Instances of » In answer to prayer » Of hezekiah
Hezekiah became ill and was about to die. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz said to him: This is what Jehovah says: 'Give final instructions to your household. You will not recover. You will die.' Hezekiah faced the wall and prayed to Jehovah: Jehovah, Please remember how I have walked before you in faithfulness and truth. And consider my whole heart devoted to you. I have done what is good in your eyes. Hezekiah wept bitterly. read more.
Isaiah had not gone as far as the middle courtyard when Jehovah spoke to him: Go back and tell Hezekiah, the leader of my people: 'This is what Jehovah God of your ancestor David says: I heard your prayer. I saw your tears. Now I will heal you. The day after tomorrow you will go to Jehovah's Temple. I will add fifteen more years to your life. I will rescue you and defend this city from the control of the king of Assyria. I do this for my sake and for the sake of my servant David.' Then Isaiah said: Get a fig cake, and put it on the boil so that the king will get well. King Hezekiah said to Isaiah: What is the sign to prove that Jehovah will heal me and that three days later I will be able to go to the Temple? Isaiah replied: Jehovah will give you a sign to prove that he will keep his promise. Would you prefer to have the shadow on the stairway go forward ten steps or go back ten steps? Then Hezekiah said: It is an easy matter to have the shadow go forward ten steps. So have it go back ten steps. Isaiah prayed to Jehovah and Jehovah made the shadow go back ten steps on the stairway set up by King Ahaz.
King Hezekiah became sick and almost died. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz went to see him. Isaiah said to him: Jehovah tells you: 'You are to put everything in order because you will not recover. Get ready to die.' Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to Jehovah: Remember, Jehovah, that I have served you faithfully and loyally. I have always tried to do what you wanted me to. Then he cried bitterly. read more.
Then Jehovah commanded Isaiah to go back to Hezekiah and say to him: I Jehovah, the God of your ancestor David, have heard your prayer and seen your tears. I will add fifteen more years to your life. I will rescue you and this city of Jerusalem from the king of Assyria, and I will continue to protect the city. Isaiah said: This is your sign from Jehovah that he will do what he promises. The sun made a shadow that went down the stairway of the upper palace of Ahaz. 'I am going to make the shadow go back ten steps.' So the sun on the stairway went back up the ten steps it had gone down.
Disease » Remedies » Treatment of wounds
From the bottom of your feet to the top of your head there is no healthy spot left on your body. You have only bruises, sores, and fresh wounds. They have not been cleansed, bandaged, or soothed with oil.
He went to him and bandaged his wounds pouring oil and wine on them. He set him on his own beast and brought him to an inn to take care of him.
Disease » Remedies » Anointing with oil
They cast out many demons. They anointed the sick with oil and healed them.
Is any among you sick? Let him call the elders of the congregation. Let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of God.
Disease » As judgments
Fools suffered because of their disobedience and because of their crimes.
Jehovah will cause sores to appear on the heads of the women of Zion. Jehovah will make their foreheads bare.
Disease » Instances of » Ointments
From the bottom of your feet to the top of your head there is no healthy spot left on your body. You have only bruises, sores, and fresh wounds. They have not been cleansed, bandaged, or soothed with oil.
Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician (healer) there? Why then has the health of the daughter of my people not been restored?
Disease » Instances of » In answer to prayer » Of david
You saved me from death. You saved my eyes from tears and my feet from stumbling.
He asked you for life. You gave him a long life, forever and ever (perpetuity) (long lasting time).
Disease » Remedies » Treatment of fractures
Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh, king of Egypt. His arm is not bandaged, so it cannot heal and be strong enough to hold a sword.
Disease » Instances of » Jehoram
A letter came to him from the prophet Elijah. It read: This is what Jehovah the God of your ancestor David says: You have not followed the ways of your father Jehoshaphat or the ways of King Asa of Judah. Instead, you have followed the ways of the kings of Israel. You, like Ahab's family, have caused Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to chase after foreign gods as if they were prostitutes. You have killed your brothers, your father's family. Your brothers were better than you. Jehovah will strike a great blow to your people, your sons, your wives, and all your property because you did this. read more.
You will be affected by a painful stomach disease and suffer until you die. Later Jehovah caused the Philistines and the Arabs who lived near the Ethiopians to become angry with Jehoram. They invaded Judah and stole the royal property from the palace. They led Jehoram's wives and sons away as prisoners. The only one left behind was Ahaziah, his youngest son. After this happened; Jehovah struck Jehoram with an incurable stomach disease. Two years later Jehoram died in terrible pain. No bonfire was built to honor him. The people had done this for his ancestors, but not him.
Disease » Instances of » Uzziah
Azariah the priest went in after him with eighty of Jehovah's courageous priests. They opposed King Uzziah. They said to him: Uzziah, you have no right to burn incense as an offering to Jehovah. That right belongs to the priests, Aaron's descendants, who have been given the holy task of burning incense. Get out of the holy place because you have been unfaithful. Jehovah God will not honor you for this. Uzziah held an incense burner in his hand. He became angry. As his anger with the priests grew, a skin disease broke out on his forehead. This happened in front of the priests in Jehovah's Temple as Uzziah was at the incense altar. read more.
When the chief priest Azariah and all the priests turned toward him, a skin disease was on his forehead. They rushed him away. Uzziah was in a hurry to get out because Jehovah had inflicted him with the disease.
Disease » Remedies » Poultices
Then Isaiah said: Get a fig cake, and put it on the boil so that the king will get well.
Disease » Remedies » Ointment
From the bottom of your feet to the top of your head there is no healthy spot left on your body. You have only bruises, sores, and fresh wounds. They have not been cleansed, bandaged, or soothed with oil.
Disease » Instances of » David's child
Nathan went home. Jehovah struck the child that Uriah's wife had given birth to David. The child became sick.
Disease » Instances of » Upon nabal
Disease » Instances of » Treatment of fractures
Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh, king of Egypt. His arm is not bandaged, so it cannot heal and be strong enough to hold a sword.
Disease » Instances of » Jeroboam
Jeroboam never regained power during Abijah's time. Jehovah caused Jeroboam to become sick, and Jeroboam died.
Disease » Instances of » Gehazi
Naaman's leprosy will come upon you. You and your descendants will have it from generation to generation! When Gehazi left, he had the disease. His skin was as white as snow.
Disease » Instances of » Miraculous healing of, a sign to accompany the preaching of the word
They will pick up and handle serpents. Deadly drink will not hurt them. They will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.
Disease » Instances of » Emulsions
He went to him and bandaged his wounds pouring oil and wine on them. He set him on his own beast and brought him to an inn to take care of him.
Disease » Instances of » Poultices
Then Isaiah said: Get a fig cake, and put it on the boil so that the king will get well.
Disease » Sent from God
When you come to Canaan that I am going to give to you, mildew may appear in a house.
Feet » Were liable to » Disease
The rest of the events of Asa's reign, the extent of his power and the names of the cities he built are all recorded in the Book of the History of the Kings of Judah. His feet became diseased, as he grew old.
Hemorrhoids » Disease » Afflicted » Philistines
Jehovah dealt harshly with the people of Ashdod. He destroyed them by striking the people in the vicinity of Ashdod with tumors.
What guilt offering (trespass gift) shall we send him? The people asked. They answered: Five gold models of tumors and five gold mice, one of each for each Philistine king. The same plague was sent on all of you and on the five kings.
Jehovah will strike you with the boils of Egypt and with tumors and with the scab and with the itch, from which you cannot be healed.
The people of Ekron called for another meeting of the Philistine rulers and told them: Send this chest back where it belongs. Then it will not kill us. Everyone was in a panic, because God was causing a lot of people to die.
Insanity » Disease
That same hour it was fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar. He was driven from men and did eat grass like bulls. His body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hair grew like eagles' feathers, and his fingernails like birds' claws.
News about him spread throughout the country of Syria. People sick and suffering from diseases, people with demons, epileptics and paralytics, came to him. Jesus healed them all.
Lord, have mercy on my son. He has mental problems and is in great pain. He frequently falls into the fire and into the water.
Sin » Leads to » Disease
Spermatorrhea » Disease » Genital organs
If a man has an emission of semen, he must bathe his whole body. He will be unclean until evening.
Spiritual » Desire select readings, psalms 42; 84 » Disease
Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician (healer) there? Why then has the health of the daughter of my people not been restored?
Why do you still want to be beaten? Why do you continue to rebel? Your whole head is infected. Your whole heart is sick.
This is what Jehovah says: Your wound is incurable. Your injury is beyond healing.
Samaria's wound is incurable! It came as far as Judah. It even reached to the gate of my people, Jerusalem.
Jesus heard this. He said to them: Those who are well have no need of a medical man but those who are ill do. I have come to care for sinners not the upright.
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Matthew 8:17In so doing, that which was spoken through Isaiah was fulfilled. Isaiah wrote: He took our sicknesses and removed our diseases.
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Job 16:8You have shriveled me up. It has become a witness. And my leanness rises up against me. It testifies to my face.
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