39 Bible Verses about Sickness
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And Jesus went around all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the good-news of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people.
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.
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.
But ye know that through a weakness of the flesh I preached the good-news to you the first time.
And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.
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.
And thou shall have great sickness by disease of thy bowels until thy bowels fall out by reason of the sickness, day by day.
And after all this LORD smote him in his bowels with an incurable disease.
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.
LORD will support him upon the bed of languishing. Thou will make all his bed in his sickness.
But when Jesus heard, he said, This sickness is not about death, but for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified by it.
And the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick. The people who dwell in it shall be forgiven their iniquity.
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.
And behold, there was a woman who had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years. And she was bent over, and not being able to straighten up completely.
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.
And heal the weak in it, and say to them, The kingdom of God has come near to you.
And he sent them to preach the kingdom of God, and to heal those who were incapacitated.
And when Jesus came into Peter's house, he saw his mother-in-law, having been laid down, and feverish.
And having called in his twelve disciples, he gave them authority over unclean spirits, so as to cast them out, and to heal every sickness and every disease.
And he will wipe away every tear from their eyes. And there will not be any more death, nor grief, nor crying, nor will there be any more anguish, because the former things are gone.
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,
so that what was spoken through Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which says, He himself took our infirmities, and bore our diseases.
What do ye devise against LORD? He will make a full end. Affliction shall not rise up the second time.
He has gone forth out of thee, who devises evil against LORD, who counsels wickedness.
All his days also he eats in gloom, and he is greatly troubled, and has depression and anger.
And to Adam he said, Because thou have hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and have eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shall not eat of it, cursed is the ground for thy sake. In toil thou shall eat of it all
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
Woe is me because of my hurt! My wound is grievous, but I said, Truly this is [my] grief, and I must bear it.
The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity, but a broken spirit who can bear?
And when Jesus saw her, he called out, and said to her, Woman, thou are loosed from thine infirmity.
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
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
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
In the night season my bones are pierced in me, and the [pains] that gnaw me take no rest.
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.
Israel » Sickness » hezekiah » Miracle » Restoration
Punishment of the The Wicked » In this life by » Sickness
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.
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
Because of this many are weak and sickly among you, and a considerable sleep.
All his days also he eats in gloom, and he is greatly troubled, and has depression and anger.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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
And in those days, having been ill, she happened to died. And after washing her, they laid her in an upper chamber.
So Satan went forth from the presence of LORD, and smote Job with severe boils from the sole of his foot to his crown.
In those days Hezekiah was sick to death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said to him, Thus says LORD, Set thy house in order, for thou shall die, and not live.
Erastus remained at Corinth, but Trophimus I left being sick at Miletus.
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
And after taking him by the right hand, he lifted him up. And immediately his feet and his ankles were strengthened.
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.
And Peter said to him, Aeneas, Jesus the Christ heals thee. Arise and make thy bed. And straightaway he arose.
said with a great voice, Stand correctly on thy feet. And he leaped up and walked.
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.
Sickness » Sent by God
And immediately an agent of Lord struck him, because he did not give glory to God. And after becoming worm-eaten, he expired.
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.
And Nathan departed to his house. And LORD struck the child that Uriah's wife bore to David, and it was very sick.
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
Because of this many are weak and sickly among you, and a considerable sleep.
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.
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
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
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.
For they are life to those who find them, and health to all their flesh.
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
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.
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.
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
Then the King will say to those at his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.
And having answered, the King will say to them, Truly I say to you, inasmuch as ye did it to one of these my brothers, the least, ye did it to me.
naked, and ye clothed me. I was feeble, and ye came to help me. I was in prison, and ye came to me.
Sickness » Saints » Acknowledge that, comes from God
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.
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.
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
to a different man, faith by the same Spirit, and to another, gifts of healings by the same Spirit,
Do all have gifts of healing? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret?
Sickness » Saints » Praise God for recovery from
The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day. The father to the sons shall make known thy truth.
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,
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
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.
And after all this LORD smote him in his bowels with an incurable disease.
Sickness » The apostles were endued with power to heal
And having called in his twelve disciples, he gave them authority over unclean spirits, so as to cast them out, and to heal every sickness and every disease.
And those men, having gone forth, they preached everywhere, the Lord working jointly, and confirming the word by the signs that followed. Truly.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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
And Jesus went around all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the good-news of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people.
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
And leaping up, he stood and walked. And he entered with them into the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God.
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
And he laid his hands upon her, and immediately she was made straight, and glorified God.
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
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
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
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
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
For also he was sick, near death, but God was merciful to him, and not only him, but also me, so that I might not 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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
naked, and ye clothed me. I was feeble, and ye came to help me. I was in prison, and ye came to me.
Sickness » Healing of, lawful on the sabbath
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
LORD will support him upon the bed of languishing. Thou will make all his bed in his sickness.
Sickness » God » Comforts saints in
LORD will support him upon the bed of languishing. Thou will 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 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
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
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
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
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
In the night season my bones are pierced in me, and the [pains] that gnaw me take no rest.
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
Agony, Sickness
Jeremiah 15:18Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? Will thou indeed be to me as a deceitful [brook], as waters that fail?
Christ's Authority Over Sickness
Matthew 8:14-15And when Jesus came into Peter's house, he saw his mother-in-law, having been laid down, and feverish.
Divine Care In Sickness
Psalm 41:3LORD will support him upon the bed of languishing. Thou will make all his bed in his sickness.
Healing Sickness
Matthew 9:35And 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 4:17that they may lack bread and water, and be dismayed one with another, and pine away in their iniquity.