39 Bible Verses about Sickness

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Matthew 9:35

And Jesus went about all the cities and the villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the good-news of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people.

Deuteronomy 28:61

Also every sickness, and every calamity, which is not written in the book of this law, them LORD will bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed.

Galatians 4:13

But ye know that through a weakness of the flesh I preached the good-news to you the first time.

John 5:5

And a certain man was there who was thirty-eight years in the weakness.

Luke 4:40

And when the sun was setting, all, as many as had those who were incapacitated with various diseases, brought them to him. And having laid his hands on each one of them, he healed them.

2 Chronicles 21:15

And thou shall have great sickness by disease of thy bowels until thy bowels fall out by reason of the sickness, day by day.

2 Chronicles 21:18

And after all this LORD smote him in his bowels with an incurable disease.

Exodus 23:25

And ye shall serve LORD your God, and he will bless thy bread, and thy water, and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee.

Isaiah 33:24

And the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick. The people who dwell in it shall be forgiven their iniquity.

Deuteronomy 7:15

And LORD will take away from thee all sickness. And none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou know, will he put upon thee, but will lay them upon all those who hate thee.

2 Chronicles 16:12

And in the thirty-ninth year of his reign Asa was diseased in his feet. His disease was exceedingly great, yet in his disease he did not seek for LORD, but to the physicians.

Matthew 8:14

And when Jesus came into Peter's house, he saw his mother-in-law, having been laid down, and feverish.

Luke 8:43

And a woman being with an issue of blood for twelve years, who, although she spent her entire living on physicians, was unable to be healed by any,

Nahum 1:9

What do ye devise against LORD? He will make a full end. Affliction shall not rise up the second time.

Nahum 1:11

He has gone forth out of thee, who devises evil against LORD, who counsels wickedness.

Ecclesiastes 5:17

All his days also he eats in gloom, and he is greatly troubled, and has depression and anger.

Exodus 15:26

and he said, If thou will diligently hearken to the voice of LORD thy God, and will do that which is right in his eyes, and will give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases upon thee, wh

Jeremiah 10:19

Woe is me because of my hurt! My wound is grievous, but I said, Truly this is [my] grief, and I must bear it.

Luke 13:12

And when Jesus saw her, he called out, and said to her, Woman, thou are loosed from thine infirmity.

Revelation 2:22

Behold, I throw her into a bed, and those who commit adultery with her into great tribulation, if they do not repent of her works.

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

2 Kings 8:8

And the king said to Hazael, Take a present in thy hand, and go, meet the man of God, and inquire of LORD by him, saying, Shall I recover of this sickness?

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

2 Kings 8:8

And the king said to Hazael, Take a present in thy hand, and go, meet the man of God, and inquire of LORD by him, saying, Shall I recover of this sickness?

Insomnia » Sickness

Job 30:17

In the night season my bones are pierced in me, and the [pains] that gnaw me take no rest.

Job 7:4-5

When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? And I am full of tossing to and fro to the dawning of the day. My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust. My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh.

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

Leviticus 26:16

I also will do this to you: I will appoint terror over you, even consumption and fever, that shall consume the eyes, and make the soul to pine away. And ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.

Psalm 78:50

He made a path for 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

1 Corinthians 11:30

Because of this many are weak and sickly among you, and a considerable sleep.

Ecclesiastes 5:17

All his days also he eats in gloom, and he is greatly troubled, and has depression and anger.

Leviticus 26:15-16

and if ye shall reject my statutes, and if your soul abhors my ordinances, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but break my covenant, I also will do this to you: I will appoint terror over you, even consumption and fever, that shall consume the eyes, and make the soul to pine away. And ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.

Deuteronomy 28:61

Also every sickness, and every calamity, which is not written in the book of this law, them LORD will bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed.

2 Chronicles 21:15

And thou shall have great sickness by disease of thy bowels until thy bowels fall out by reason of the sickness, day by day.

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

Exodus 12:13

And the blood shall be to you for a sign upon the houses where ye are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and there shall no plague be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.

Exodus 15:26

and he said, If thou will diligently hearken to the voice of LORD thy God, and will do that which is right in his eyes, and will give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases upon thee, wh

Mark 16:18

They will take up serpents, and if they drink anything deadly, it will, no, not harm them. They will lay hands on the feeble, and they will fare well.

Exodus 8:22

And in that day I will set apart the land of Goshen, in which my people dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be there, to the end thou may know that I am LORD in the midst of the earth.

Exodus 9:6

And LORD did that thing on the morrow, and all the cattle of Egypt died, but of the cattle of the sons of Israel not one died.

Sickness » The righteous suffer from

Acts 9:37

And in those days, having been ill, she happened to died. And after washing her, they laid her in an upper chamber.

2 Timothy 4:20

Erastus remained at Corinth, but Trophimus I left being sick at Miletus.

Daniel 8:27

And I, Daniel, fainted, and was sick certain days. Then I rose up, and did the king's business. And I wondered at the vision, but none understood it.

Sickness » Healing » Examples of apostolic

Acts 3:7

And after taking him by the right hand, he lifted him up. And immediately his feet and his ankles were strengthened.

Acts 5:16

And also the populace of the cities round about came together to Jerusalem bringing the feeble, and those tormented by unclean spirits, who were all healed.

Acts 9:34

And Peter said to him, Aeneas, Jesus the Christ heals thee. Arise and make thy bed. And straightaway he arose.

Acts 14:10

said with a great voice, Stand correctly on thy feet. And he leaped up and walked.

Acts 16:18

And she did this on many days. But Paul, after being exasperated, and having turned, he said to the spirit, I command thee in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her. And it came out the same hour.

More verses: Acts 19:12 Acts 28:8

Sickness » Sent by God

Deuteronomy 32:39

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. And there is none that can deliver out of my hand.

2 Samuel 12:15

And Nathan departed to his house. And LORD struck the child that Uriah's wife bore to David, and it was very sick.

Deuteronomy 28:59-61

then LORD will make thy calamities extraordinary, and the calamities of thy seed, even great calamities, and of long continuance, and severe sicknesses, and of long continuance. And he will bring upon thee again all the diseases of Egypt, which thou were afraid of, and they shall cling to thee. Also every sickness, and every calamity, which is not written in the book of this law, them LORD will bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed.

Sickness » Often sent as a punishment of sin

1 Corinthians 11:30

Because of this many are weak and sickly among you, and a considerable sleep.

2 Chronicles 21:12-15

And there came a writing to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, Thus says LORD, the God of David thy father, Because thou have not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat thy father, nor in the ways of Asa king of Judah, but have walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and have made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to play the harlot, like the house of Ahab did, and also have slain thy brothers of thy father's house who were better than thy , behold, LORD will smite thy people with a great plague, and thy sons, and thy wives, and all thy substance. read more.
And thou shall have great sickness by disease of thy bowels until thy bowels fall out by reason of the sickness, day by day.

Leviticus 26:14-16

But if ye will not hearken to me, and will not do all these commandments, and if ye shall reject my statutes, and if your soul abhors my ordinances, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but break my covenant, I also will do this to you: I will appoint terror over you, even consumption and fever, that shall consume the eyes, and make the soul to pine away. And ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.

Sickness » Inflicted upon the wicked » Promises of immunity from

Exodus 15:26

and he said, If thou will diligently hearken to the voice of LORD thy God, and will do that which is right in his eyes, and will give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases upon thee, wh

Deuteronomy 7:15

And LORD will take away from thee all sickness. And none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou know, will he put upon thee, but will lay them upon all those who hate thee.

Proverbs 4:22

For they are life to those who find them, and health to all their flesh.

Jeremiah 30:17

For I will restore health to thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, says LORD, because they have called thee an outcast, [saying], It is Zion, whom no man seeks after.

Sickness » God » Heals

Deuteronomy 32:39

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. And there is none that can deliver out of my hand.

Isaiah 38:5

Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus says 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.

Isaiah 38:9

The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness:

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

Sickness » Saints » Acknowledge that, comes from God

Isaiah 38:12

My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me as a shepherd's tent. I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life. He will cut me off from the loom. From day even to night thou will make an end of me.

Psalm 31:1-8

In thee, O LORD, do I take refuge. Let me never be put to shame. Deliver me in thy righteousness. Bow down thine ear to me. Deliver me speedily. Be thou to me a strong rock, a house of defense to save me. For thou are my rock and my fortress. Therefore for thy name's sake lead me and guide me. read more.
Pluck me out of the net that they have laid secretly for me, for thou are my stronghold. Into thy hand I commend my spirit. Thou have redeemed me, O LORD, thou God of truth. I hate those who regard lying vanities, but I trust in LORD. I will be glad and rejoice in thy loving kindness, for thou have seen my affliction. Thou have known my soul in adversities, and thou have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy. Thou have set my feet in a large place.

Isaiah 38:15

What shall I say? He has both spoken to me, and himself has done it. I shall go softly all my years because of the bitterness of my soul.

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

Sickness » Saints » Praise God for recovery from

Isaiah 38:19

The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day. The father to the sons shall make known thy truth.

Psalm 103:1-3

Bless LORD, O my soul, and all that is within me, [bless] his holy name. Bless LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits, who forgives all thine iniquities, who heals all thy diseases,

Luke 17:15

And one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back with a great voice glorifying God.

Sickness » Often incurable by human means

Deuteronomy 28:27

LORD will smite thee with the boil of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scurvy, and with the itch, of which thou cannot be healed.

2 Chronicles 21:18

And after all this LORD smote him in his bowels with an incurable disease.

Sickness » The apostles were endued with power to heal

Mark 16:18

They will take up serpents, and if they drink anything deadly, it will, no, not harm them. They will lay hands on the feeble, and they will fare well.

Sickness » God » Often manifests saving grace to sinners during

Job 33:19-24

He also is chastened with pain upon his bed, and with continual strife in his bones, so that his life abhors 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.
Yea, his soul draws near to the pit, and his life to the destroyers. If there be with him a [heavenly] agent, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to show to man what is right for him, then [God] is gracious to him, and says, Deliver him from going down to the pit; I have found a ransom.

Psalm 107:17-21

Fools are afflicted because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities. Their soul abhors all manner of food, and they draw near to the gates of death. Then they cry to LORD in their trouble, and he saves them out of their distresses. read more.
He sends his word, and heals them, and delivers [them] from their destructions. O that men would praise LORD for his loving kindness, and for his wonderful works to the sons of men!

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

Matthew 25:43

I was a stranger, and ye did not take me in, naked, and ye did not clothe me, weak, and in prison, and ye did not come to help me.

Matthew 25:45

Then he will answer them, saying, Truly I say to you, inasmuch as ye did it not to one of these least, ye did it not to me.

Sickness » Christ compassionated those in

Matthew 8:16-17

And having become evening, they brought to him many being demon possessed. And he cast out the spirits by word, and healed all those faring badly, so that what was spoken through Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which says, He himself took our infirmities, and bore our diseases.

Isaiah 53:4

Surely he has borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows. Yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted.

Sickness » God » Hears the prayers of those in

Psalm 107:18-20

Their soul abhors all manner of food, and they draw near to the gates of death. Then they cry to LORD in their trouble, and he saves them out of their distresses. He sends his word, and heals them, and delivers [them] from their destructions.

Sickness » God » Promises to heal

2 Kings 20:5

Turn back, and say to Hezekiah the prince of my people, Thus says 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 shall go up to the house of LORD.

Exodus 23:25

And ye shall serve 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

Matthew 8:8

And having answered, the centurion said, Lord, I am not worthy that thou should come under my roof, but only speak the word, and my boy will be healed.

Matthew 8:13

And Jesus said to the centurion, Go thou. And as thou have believed, be it done to thee. And his boy was healed in that hour.

Sickness » Pray for those afflicted with

Acts 28:8

And it came about for the father of Publius to be laid down, gripped by fever and dysentery, to whom Paul, having entered in, and having prayed, having laid his hands on him, healed him.

James 5:14-15

Is any man weak among you? Let him summon the elders of the congregation, and let them pray near him, having anointed him with olive oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer of faith will rescue him who is depressed, and the Lord will rouse him. And if he should be a man who has committed sins, they will be forgiven him.

Sickness » Christ healed » Being present

Mark 1:31

And upon coming, having taken hold of her hand, he raised her up and the fever left her. And straightaway she served them.

Sickness » Saints » Thank God publicly for recovery from

Acts 3:8

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

Isaiah 38:20

LORD is [ready] to save me. Therefore we will sing my songs with stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of LORD.

Sickness » Christ healed » By imposition of hands

Mark 6:5

And he could do no mighty work there, none, except having laid his hands upon a few feeble men he healed them.

Sickness » God's aid should be sought in

2 Chronicles 16:12

And in the thirty-ninth year of his reign Asa was diseased in his feet. His disease was exceedingly great, yet in his disease he did not seek for LORD, but to the physicians.

Sickness » Illustrative of sin

Leviticus 13:45-46

And the man with a leprous disease in whom the disease is, his clothes shall be torn, and the hair of his head shall go loose, and he shall cover his upper lip, and shall cry, Unclean, unclean. All the days in which the disease is in him he shall be unclean; he is unclean. He shall dwell alone; his dwelling shall be outside the camp.

Sickness » The wicked » A large amount » Sorrow

Ecclesiastes 5:17

All his days also he eats in gloom, and he is greatly troubled, and has depression and anger.

Sickness » Christ healed » Through the touch of his garment

Matthew 14:35-36

And when they recognized him, the men of that place sent into that whole region round about, and brought to him all those faring badly. And they besought him that they might only touch the hem of his garment. And as many as touched were healed.

Sickness » God » Exhibits his mercy in healing

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

Ezekiel 14:19-21

Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my wrath upon it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast, though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live, says lord LORD, they would deliver neither son nor daughter, they would but deliver their own souls by their righteousness. For thus says lord LORD: How much more when I send my four severe judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the evil beasts, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast!

Sickness » Faith required in those healed of, by Christ

Matthew 9:28-29

And when he came into the house, the blind men came to him. And Jesus says to them, Believe ye that I am able to do this? They say to him, Yes, Lord. Then he touched their eyes, saying, According to your faith may it happen to you.

Sickness » The wicked » Forsake those in

1 Samuel 30:13

And David said to him, To whom do thou belong? And from where are 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

Jeremiah 29:18

And I will pursue after them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be tossed to and fro among all the kingdoms of the earth, to be an execration, and an astonishment, and a hissing, and

Sickness » God » Abandons the wicked to

Jeremiah 34:17

Therefore thus says LORD: Ye have not hearkened to me, to proclaim liberty, every man to his brother, and every man to his neighbor. Behold, I proclaim to you a liberty, says LORD--to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine

Sickness » The wicked » Visit not those in

Matthew 25:43

I was a stranger, and ye did not take me in, naked, and ye did not clothe me, weak, and in prison, and ye did not come to help me.

Sickness » Saints » Pray for recovery from

Isaiah 38:2-3

Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall, and prayed to 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 greatly.

Sickness » Saints » Visit those in

Sickness » Healing of, lawful on the sabbath

Luke 13:14-16

And having responded, the synagogue-ruler, being indignant because Jesus healed on the Sabbath, answered and said to the multitude, There are six days in which he ought to work. Therefore coming in these, be healed, and not on the But the Lord therefore answered him and said, Ye hypocrites, does not each of you on the Sabbath loose his ox or his donkey from the stall, and after leading away, give to drink? And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham whom Satan has bound, lo, eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the day of the Sabbath?

Sickness » Christ healed » Not being present

Matthew 8:13

And Jesus said to the centurion, Go thou. And as thou have believed, be it done to thee. And his boy was healed in that hour.

Sickness » Saints » Ascribe recovery from, to God

Isaiah 38:20

LORD is [ready] to save me. Therefore we will sing my songs with stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of LORD.

Sickness » Saints » Mourn under, with prayer

Isaiah 38:14

Like a swallow [or] a crane, so I chattered. I moaned as a dove. My eyes fail [with looking] upward. O LORD, I am oppressed, be thou my surety.

Sickness » God » Exhibits his love in healing

Isaiah 38:17

Behold, for peace I had great bitterness. But thou have by love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption. For thou have cast all my sins behind thy back.

Sickness » God » Preserves saints in time of

Psalm 91:3-7

For he will deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the deadly pestilence. He will cover thee with his pinions, and under his wings shall thou take refuge. His truth is a shield and a buckler. Thou shall not be afraid for the terror by night, nor for the arrow that flies by day, read more.
for the pestilence that walks in darkness, nor for the destruction that wastes at noonday. A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand, [but] it shall not come near thee.

Sickness » Christ healed » With a touch

Matthew 8:3

And having reached out his hand, Jesus touched him, saying, I will, be thou cleansed. And straightaway his leprosy was cleansed.

Sickness » Saints » Feel for others in

Psalm 35:13

But as for me, when they were sick my clothing was sackcloth. I afflicted my soul with fasting, and my prayer returned into my own bosom.

Sickness » God » Strengthens saints in

Sickness » God » Comforts saints in

Sickness » God » Permits saints to be tried by

Job 2:5-6

But put forth thy hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce thee to thy face. And LORD said to Satan, Behold, he is in thy hand, only spare his life.

Sickness » God » Exhibits his power in healing

Luke 5:17

And it came to pass during one of those days, he was also teaching. And there were seated Pharisees and law teachers, who were men having come out of every town of Galilee and Judea and Jerusalem. And the power of Lord was to heal

Sickness » The devil sometimes permitted to inflict

Job 2:6-7

And LORD said to Satan, Behold, he is in thy hand, only spare his life. So Satan went forth from the presence of LORD, and smote Job with severe boils from the sole of his foot to his crown.

Sickness » Often brought on by intemperance

Hosea 7:5

On the day of our king the rulers made themselves sick with the heat of wine. He stretched out his hand with scoffers.

Sickness » Saints » Are resigned under

Job 2:10

But he said to her, Thou speak as one of the foolish women speaks. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this Job did not sin with his lips.

Sleeplessness » Common causes of loss of sleep » Sickness

Job 30:17

In the night season my bones are pierced in me, and the [pains] that gnaw me take no rest.

Job 7:4-5

When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? And I am full of tossing to and fro to the dawning of the day. My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust. My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh.

Topics on Sickness

Christ's Authority Over Sickness

Matthew 8:14-15

And when Jesus came into Peter's house, he saw his mother-in-law, having been laid down, and feverish.

Healing Sickness

Matthew 9:35

And Jesus went about all the cities and the villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the good-news of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people.

Sin Brings Sickness

Ezekiel 4:17

that they may lack bread and water, and be dismayed one with another, and pine away in their iniquity.

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