39 Bible Verses about Sickness
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Jesus was going all over Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the good news of the kingdom, and healing every disease and sickness among the people.
Then Jesus went to all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the good news of the kingdom, and healing every disease and every sickness.
The Lord will also afflict you with every sickness and plague not recorded in the book of this law, until you are destroyed.
you know that previously I preached the gospel to you because of a physical illness.
When the sun was setting, all those who had anyone sick with various diseases brought them to Him. As He laid His hands on each one of them, He would heal them.
After all these things, the Lord afflicted him in his intestines with an incurable disease.
Worship the Lord your God, and He will bless your bread and your water. I will remove illnesses from you.
When Jesus heard it, He said, “This sickness will not end in death but is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”
and none there will say, “I am sick.”
The people who dwell there
will be forgiven their iniquity.
The Lord will remove all sickness from you; He will not put on you all the terrible diseases of Egypt that you know about, but He will inflict them on all who hate you.
a woman was there who had been disabled by a spirit for over 18 years. She was bent over and could not straighten up at all.
In the thirty-ninth year of his reign, Asa developed a disease in his feet, and his disease became increasingly severe. Yet even in his disease he didn’t seek the Lord but only the physicians.
When Jesus went into Peter’s house, He saw his mother-in-law lying in bed with a fever.
Summoning His 12 disciples, He gave them authority over unclean spirits, to drive them out and to heal every disease and sickness.
He will wipe away every tear from their eyes.
Death will no longer exist;
grief, crying, and pain will exist no longer,
because the previous things have passed away.
A woman suffering from bleeding for 12 years, who had spent all she had on doctors yet could not be healed by any,
so that what was spoken through the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled:
He Himself took our weaknesses
and carried our diseases.
Whatever you plot against the Lord,
He will bring it to complete destruction;
oppression will not rise up a second time.
One has gone out from you,
who plots evil against Yahweh,
and is a wicked counselor.
What is more, he eats in darkness all his days, with much sorrow, sickness, and anger.
And He said to Adam, “Because you listened to your wife’s voice and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘Do not eat from it’:
The ground is cursed because of you.
You will eat from it by means of painful labor
all the days of your life.
He said, “If you will carefully obey the Lord your God, do what is right in His eyes, pay attention to His commands, and keep all His statutes, I will not inflict any illnesses on you that I inflicted on the Egyptians. For I am Yahweh who heals you.”
Woe to me because of my brokenness—
I am severely wounded!
I exclaimed, “This is my intense suffering,
but I must bear it.”
When Jesus saw her, He called out to her, “Woman, you are free of your disability.”
Look! I will throw her into a sickbed and those who commit adultery with her into great tribulation, unless they repent of her practices.
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Enquiring of God » Inquiring through the prophets, concerning perplexing questions » Sickness
So the king said to Hazael,
Inquiring of God » Inquiring through the prophets, concerning perplexing questions » Sickness
So the king said to Hazael,
Insomnia » Sickness
When I lie down I think: When will I get up? But the evening drags on endlessly, and I toss and turn until dawn. My flesh is clothed with maggots and encrusted with dirt. My skin forms scabs and then oozes.
Israel » Sickness » hezekiah » Miracle » Restoration
Punishment of the The Wicked » In this life by » Sickness
then I will do this to you: I will bring terror
He did not spare them from death
but delivered their lives to the plague.
Sickness » Sometimes sent as a judgment for sin
What is more, he eats in darkness all his days,
if you reject My statutes and despise My ordinances, and do not observe all My commands-and break My covenant, then I will do this to you: I will bring terror on you-wasting disease and fever that will cause your eyes to fail and your life to ebb away. You will sow your seed in vain because your enemies will eat it.
The Lord will also afflict you with every sickness and plague not recorded in the book of this law, until you are destroyed.
Sickness » Inflicted upon the wicked » The jews,promised special immunity from calamities
The blood on the houses where you are staying will be a distinguishing mark for you; when I see the blood, I will pass over you. No plague will be among you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.
He said, “If you will carefully obey the Lord your God, do what is right in His eyes, pay attention to His commands, and keep all His statutes, I will not inflict any illnesses on you that I inflicted on the Egyptians. For I am Yahweh who heals you.”
But on that day I will give special treatment to the land of Goshen, where My people are living;
The Lord did this the next day. All the Egyptian livestock died,
Sickness » The righteous suffer from
In those days she became sick and died. After washing her, they placed her in a room upstairs.
So Satan left the Lord’s presence and infected Job with terrible boils from the sole of his foot to the top of his head.
In those days
Erastus
I, Daniel, was overcome and lay sick for days.
Sickness » Healing » Examples of apostolic
Then, taking him by the right hand he raised him up, and at once his feet and ankles became strong.
In addition, a large group came together from the towns surrounding Jerusalem, bringing sick people and those who were tormented by unclean spirits, and they were all healed.
Peter said to him, “Aeneas, Jesus Christ heals you. Get up and make your bed,”
Paul said in a loud voice, “Stand upright on your feet!” And he jumped up and started to walk around.
And she did this for many days.
But Paul was greatly aggravated and turning to the spirit, said, “I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her!” And it came out right away.
Sickness » Sent by God
At once an angel of the Lord
there is no God but Me.
I bring death and I give life;
I wound and I heal.
No one can rescue anyone from My hand.
Then Nathan went home.
The Lord struck the baby that Uriah’s
He will bring extraordinary plagues on you and your descendants, severe and lasting plagues, and terrible and chronic sicknesses. He will afflict you again with all the diseases of Egypt, which you dreaded, and they will cling to you. The Lord will also inflict you with every sickness and plague not recorded in the book of this law, until you are destroyed.
Sickness » Often sent as a punishment of sin
Then a letter came to Jehoram from Elijah the prophet, saying: This is what the Lord God of your ancestor David says: "Because you have not walked in the ways of your father Jehoshaphat or in the ways of Asa king of Judah but have walked in the way of the kings of Israel, have caused Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to prostitute themselves like the house of Ahab prostituted itself, and also have killed your brothers, your father's family, who were better than you, the Lord is now about to strike your people, your sons, your wives, and all your possessions with a horrible affliction. read more.
You yourself [will be struck] with many illnesses, including a disease of the intestines, until your intestines come out day after day because of the disease."
"But if you do not obey Me and observe all these commands- if you reject My statutes and despise My ordinances, and do not observe all My commands-and break My covenant, then I will do this to you: I will bring terror on you-wasting disease and fever that will cause your eyes to fail and your life to ebb away. You will sow your seed in vain because your enemies will eat it.
Sickness » Inflicted upon the wicked » Promises of immunity from
He said, “If you will carefully obey the Lord your God, do what is right in His eyes, pay attention to His commands, and keep all His statutes, I will not inflict any illnesses on you that I inflicted on the Egyptians. For I am Yahweh who heals you.”
The Lord will remove all sickness from you; He will not put on you
and health to one’s whole body.
and will heal you of your wounds—
this is the Lord’s declaration—
for they call you Outcast,
Zion whom no one cares about.
Sickness » God » Heals
there is no God but Me.
I bring death and I give life;
I wound and I heal.
No one can rescue anyone from My hand.
“Go and tell Hezekiah that this is what the Lord God of your ancestor David says: I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Look, I am going to add 15 years to your life.
A poem by Hezekiah king of Judah after he had been sick and had recovered from his illness:
Sickness » Visiting those in, an evidence of belonging to Christ
Sickness » Saints » Acknowledge that, comes from God
like a shepherd’s tent.
I have rolled up my life like a weaver;
He cuts me off from the loom.
You make an end of me from day until night.
Lord, I seek refuge in You; let me never be disgraced. Save me by Your righteousness. Listen closely to me; rescue me quickly. Be a rock of refuge for me, a mountain fortress to save me. For You are my rock and my fortress; You lead and guide me because of Your name. read more.
You will free me from the net that is secretly set for me, for You are my refuge. Into Your hand I entrust my spirit; You redeem me, Lord, God of truth. I hate those who are devoted to worthless idols, but I trust in the Lord. I will rejoice and be glad in Your faithful love because You have seen my affliction. You have known the troubles of my life and have not handed me over to the enemy. You have set my feet in a spacious place.
He has spoken to me,
and He Himself has done it.
I walk along slowly 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 another, gifts of healing
Sickness » Saints » Praise God for recovery from
as I do today;
a father will make Your faithfulness known to children.
My soul, praise the Lord, and all that is within me, praise His holy name. My soul, praise the Lord, and do not forget all His benefits. He forgives all your sin; He heals all your diseases.
But one of them, seeing that he was healed, returned and, with a loud voice, gave glory to God.
Sickness » Often incurable by human means
“The Lord will afflict you with the boils of Egypt, tumors, a festering rash, and scabies, from which you cannot be cured.
After all these things, the Lord afflicted him in his intestines with an incurable disease.
Sickness » The apostles were endued with power to heal
Summoning His 12 disciples,
And they went out and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them and confirming the word by the accompanying signs.]
Sickness » God » Often manifests saving grace to sinners during
A person may be disciplined on his bed with pain and constant distress in his bones, so that he detests bread, and his soul [despises his] favorite food. His flesh wastes away to nothing, and his unseen bones stick out. read more.
He draws near the Pit, and his life to the executioners. If there is an angel on his side, one mediator out of a thousand, to tell a person what is right for him and to be gracious to him and say, "Spare him from going down to the Pit; I have found a ransom,"
Fools suffered affliction because of their rebellious ways and their sins. They loathed all food and came near the gates of death. Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble; He saved them from their distress. read more.
He sent His word and healed them; He rescued them from the Pit. Let them give thanks to the Lord for His faithful love and His wonderful works for the human race.
Sickness » Not visiting those in, an evidence of not belonging to Christ
Sickness » Christ compassionated those in
When evening came, they brought to Him many who were demon-possessed. He drove out the spirits with a word and healed all who were sick, so that what was spoken through the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled: He Himself took our weaknesses and carried our diseases.
and He carried our pains;
but we in turn regarded Him stricken,
struck down by God,
Sickness » God » Hears the prayers of those in
They loathed all food and came near the gates of death. Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble; He saved them from their distress. He sent His word and healed them; He rescued them from the Pit.
Sickness » God » Promises to heal
“Go back and tell Hezekiah, the leader
Worship the Lord your God, and He
Sickness » Christ healed » With a word
“Lord,” the centurion replied, “I am not worthy to have You come under my roof. But only say the word, and my servant will be cured.
Then Jesus told the centurion,
Sickness » Pray for those afflicted with
Publius’s father was in bed suffering from fever and dysentery. Paul went to him, and praying and laying his hands on him, he healed him.
Is anyone among you sick? He should call for the elders of the church, and they should pray over him after anointing him with olive oil in the name of the Lord. The prayer of faith will save the sick person, and the Lord will raise him up; and if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.
Sickness » Christ healed » Being present
Jesus was going all over Galilee,
So He went to her, took her by the hand, and raised her up.
Sickness » Saints » Thank God publicly for recovery from
So he jumped up, stood, and started to walk, and he entered the temple complex with them—walking, leaping, and praising God.
we will play stringed instruments
all the days of our lives
at the house of the Lord.
Sickness » Christ healed » By imposition of hands
So He was not able to do any miracles
Sickness » God's aid should be sought in
In the thirty-ninth year of his reign, Asa developed a disease in his feet, and his disease became increasingly severe. Yet even in his disease he didn’t seek the Lord but only the physicians.
Sickness » Illustrative of sin
"The person afflicted with an infectious skin disease is to have his clothes torn and his hair hanging loose, and he must cover his mouth and cry out, 'Unclean, unclean!' He will remain unclean as long as he has the infection; he is unclean. He must live alone in a place outside the camp.
Sickness » The wicked » A large amount » Sorrow
What is more, he eats in darkness all his days,
Sickness » Christ healed » Through the touch of his garment
When the men of that place recognized Him, they alerted the whole vicinity and brought to Him all who were sick. They were begging Him that they might only touch the tassel on His robe. And as many as touched it were made perfectly well.
Sickness » God » Exhibits his mercy in healing
Indeed, he was so sick that he nearly died. However, God had mercy on him, and not only on him but also on me, so that I would not have one grief on top of another.
Sickness » One of God's four sore judgments on a guilty land
"Or if I send a plague into that land and pour out My wrath on it with bloodshed to wipe out [both] man and animal from it, even [if] Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, as I live"-the declaration of the Lord God -"they could not deliver [their] son or daughter. They would deliver [only] themselves by their righteousness. "For this is what the Lord God says: How much worse will it be when I send My four devastating judgments against Jerusalem-sword, famine, dangerous animals, and plague-in order to wipe out [both] man and animal from it!
Sickness » Faith required in those healed of, by Christ
When He entered the house, the blind men approached Him, and Jesus said to them, "Do you believe that I can do this?" "Yes, Lord," they answered Him. Then He touched their eyes, saying, "Let it be done for you according to your faith!"
Sickness » The wicked » Forsake those in
Then David said to him, “Who do you belong to? Where are you from?”
“I’m an Egyptian, the slave of an Amalekite man,” he said. “My master abandoned me when I got sick three days ago.
Sickness » God » Persecutes the wicked by
I will pursue them with sword, famine, and plague. I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth—a curse and a desolation, an object of scorn and a disgrace among all the nations where I have banished them.
Sickness » God » Abandons the wicked to
“Therefore, this is what the Lord says: You have not obeyed Me by proclaiming freedom, each man for his brother and for his neighbor. I hereby proclaim freedom for you”
Sickness » The wicked » Visit not those in
Sickness » Saints » Pray for recovery from
Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the Lord. He said, "Please, Lord, remember how I have walked before You faithfully and wholeheartedly, and have done what is good in Your sight." And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
Sickness » Saints » Visit those in
Sickness » Healing of, lawful on the sabbath
But the leader of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, responded by telling the crowd, "There are six days when work should be done; therefore come on those days and be healed and not on the Sabbath day." But the Lord answered him and said, "Hypocrites! Doesn't each one of you untie his ox or donkey from the feeding trough on the Sabbath and lead it to water? Satan has bound this woman, a daughter of Abraham, for 18 years-shouldn't she be untied from this bondage on the Sabbath day?"
Sickness » Christ healed » Not being present
Then Jesus told the centurion,
Sickness » Saints » Ascribe recovery from, to God
we will play stringed instruments
all the days of our lives
at the house of the Lord.
Sickness » Saints » Mourn under, with prayer
I moan like a dove.
My eyes grow weak looking upward.
Lord, I am oppressed; support me.
Sickness » God » Exhibits his love in healing
that I had such great bitterness;
but Your love has delivered me
from the Pit of destruction,
for You have thrown all my sins behind Your back.
Sickness » God » Preserves saints in time of
He Himself will deliver you from the hunter's net, from the destructive plague. He will cover you with His feathers; you will take refuge under His wings. His faithfulness will be a protective shield. You will not fear the terror of the night, the arrow that flies by day, read more.
the plague that stalks in darkness, or the pestilence that ravages at noon. Though a thousand fall at your side and ten thousand at your right hand, the pestilence will not reach you.
Sickness » Christ healed » With a touch
Reaching out His hand He touched him, saying,
Sickness » Saints » Feel for others in
my clothing was sackcloth;
I humbled myself with fasting,
and my prayer was genuine.
Sickness » God » Strengthens saints in
Sickness » God » Comforts saints in
Sickness » God » Permits saints to be tried by
But stretch out Your hand and strike his flesh and bones, and he will surely curse You to Your face." "Very well," the Lord told Satan, "he is in your power; only spare his life."
Sickness » God » Exhibits his power in healing
On one of those days while He was teaching, Pharisees and teachers of the law
Sickness » The devil sometimes permitted to inflict
"Very well," the Lord told Satan, "he is in your power; only spare his life." So Satan left the Lord's presence and infected Job with incurable boils from the sole of his foot to the top of his head.
Sickness » Often brought on by intemperance
the princes are sick with the heat of wine
there is a conspiracy with traitors.
Sickness » Saints » Are resigned under
“You speak as a foolish woman speaks,” he told her. “Should we accept only good from God and not adversity?” Throughout all this Job did not sin in what he said.
Sleeplessness » Common causes of loss of sleep » Sickness
When I lie down I think: When will I get up? But the evening drags on endlessly, and I toss and turn until dawn. My flesh is clothed with maggots and encrusted with dirt. My skin forms scabs and then oozes.
Topics on Sickness
Agony, Sickness
Jeremiah 15:18
my wound incurable,
refusing to be healed?
You truly have become like a mirage to me—
water that is not reliable.
Christ's Authority Over Sickness
Matthew 8:14-15When Jesus went into Peter’s house,
Divine Care In Sickness
Psalm 41:3
You will heal him on the bed where he lies.
Healing Sickness
Matthew 9:35Then Jesus went to all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the good news of the kingdom,
Sin Brings Sickness
Ezekiel 4:17So they will lack bread and water; everyone will be devastated and waste away because of their iniquity.