Bible Verses About Healing

“Bless the LORD, O my soul, and do not forget all His kind deeds— He who forgives all your iniquities and heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the Pit and crowns you with loving devotion and compassion, who satisfies you with good things, so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.”

David tells his own soul not to forget God's benefits, including forgiveness and healing. It is a call to gratitude that takes in both body and spirit.

“He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.”

This verse describes God as the one who heals the brokenhearted and bandages their wounds. It shows his care reaching emotional pain as well as physical.

“Surely He took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows; yet we considered Him stricken, struck down by God, and afflicted. But He was pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed.”

The prophet describes a suffering servant who carries our sorrows, and Christians see Jesus in this passage. It teaches that God does not stand at a distance from human pain.

“saying, “If you will listen carefully to the voice of the LORD your God, and do what is right in His eyes, and pay attention to His commands, and keep all His statutes, then I will not bring on you any of the diseases I inflicted on the Egyptians. For I am the LORD who heals you.””

After the Israelites leave Egypt, God identifies himself as the one who heals them and calls them to listen to him. It links his care with a relationship of trust.

“Is any one of you sick? He should call the elders of the church to pray over him and anoint him with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer offered in faith will restore the one who is sick. The Lord will raise him up. If he has sinned, he will be forgiven. Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man has great power to prevail.”

James tells the sick to call the church elders to pray and anoint them, and encourages believers to confess and pray for one another. Healing is pictured as something done in community, not alone.

“And a woman was there who had suffered from bleeding for twelve years. She had borne much agony under the care of many physicians and had spent all she had, but to no avail. Instead, her condition had only grown worse. When the woman heard about Jesus, she came up through the crowd behind Him and touched His cloak. For she kept saying, “If only I touch His garments, I will be healed.” Immediately her bleeding stopped, and she sensed in her body that she was healed of her affliction. At once Jesus was aware that power had gone out from Him. Turning to the crowd, He asked, “Who touched My garments?” His disciples answered, “You can see the crowd pressing in on You, and yet You ask, ‘Who touched Me?’” But He kept looking around to see who had done this. Then the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell down before Him trembling in fear, and she told Him the whole truth. “Daughter,” said Jesus, “your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be free of your affliction.””

A woman suffering for twelve years reaches out to touch Jesus, and he stops to speak with her personally. He sees her as a whole person and not only a case to be fixed.

“Suddenly a leper came and knelt before Him, saying, “Lord, if You are willing, You can make me clean.” Jesus reached out His hand and touched the man. “I am willing,” He said. “Be clean!” And immediately his leprosy was cleansed.”

A man with a skin disease, an outcast, kneels and asks if Jesus is willing, and Jesus reaches out and touches him. It shows his compassion toward the isolated and unwell.

“O LORD my God, I cried to You for help, and You healed me.”

The psalmist recalls crying out to God and being restored, and he turns that memory into thanks. It is a model for honest prayer in illness and gratitude afterward.

“or because of these surpassingly great revelations. So to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is perfected in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly in my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest on me. That is why, for the sake of Christ, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.”

Paul asked God three times to remove a painful struggle and instead heard that grace would be enough. It shows that a prayer can go unanswered as we hoped without meaning God is absent.

“My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.”

When flesh and heart fail, the psalmist says, God remains the strength of his heart. It is a verse for people living with lasting weakness or illness.

“In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know how we ought to pray, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groans too deep for words. And He who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.”

Paul says the Spirit helps us in our weakness and prays for us when we do not have words. It comforts people who are too worn out or confused to pray well.

“‘He will wipe away every tear from their eyes,’ and there will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the former things have passed away.””

John describes a future in which God removes pain and death altogether. Christians hold this as the complete healing that all partial healing points toward.