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Bible Verses for Sickness and Healing
When you’re ill, life can shrink very fast — down to one set of test results, the next appointment, and the thoughts that surface at 3 a.m. Sometimes what’s hardest isn’t the body; it’s the fear of not knowing, and the guilt of leaning on other people.
Here are eight passages from the Bible about sickness, healing, and weakness. They don’t promise the illness will pass, and they don’t tell you to be strong. They just keep you company through a hard stretch, one verse at a time.
What the Bible Says About Sickness and Healing
Is any among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the assembly, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord; and the prayer of faith will heal him who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. If he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.
James 5:14-15
The LORD will sustain him on his sickbed, and restore him from his bed of illness.
Psalm 41:3
Praise the LORD, my soul, and don’t forget all his benefits, who forgives all your sins, who heals all your diseases,
Psalm 103:2-3
He said, “If you will diligently listen to the LORD your God’s voice, and will do that which is right in his eyes, and will pay attention to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have put on the Egyptians; for I am the LORD who heals you.”
Exodus 15:26
For I will restore health to you, and I will heal you of your wounds,” says the LORD, “because they have called you an outcast, saying, ‘It is Zion, whom no man seeks after.’”
Jeremiah 30:17
He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.
Psalm 147:3
“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.
Matthew 11:28
My flesh and my heart fails, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
Psalm 73:26