Bible Verses About Healing
For comfort in suffering, see Comfort and Grief. For prayer for the sick, see Prayer. Text: World English Bible (public domain).
The Bible speaks of healing as God’s work for bodies, minds, and broken hearts. Psalm 147:3 says God heals the broken in heart and binds up their wounds; Psalm 103:2–3 blesses the Lord who heals all your diseases; and Isaiah 53:5 says by his wounds we are healed.
Verses
Psalm 147:3. He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.
Psalm 103:2–3. 2 Praise Yahweh, my soul, and don’t forget all his benefits, 3 who forgives all your sins, who heals all your diseases,
Isaiah 53:5. But he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought our peace was on him; and by his wounds we are healed.
1 Peter 2:24. He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness. You were healed by his wounds.
Jeremiah 17:14. Heal me, O Yahweh, and I will be healed. Save me, and I will be saved; for you are my praise.
Jeremiah 30:17. For I will restore health to you, and I will heal you of your wounds,” says Yahweh, “because they have called you an outcast, saying, ‘It is Zion, whom no man seeks after.’”
James 5:14–15. 14 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; 15 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.
Exodus 15:26. He said, “If you will diligently listen to Yahweh 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 Yahweh who heals you.”
Matthew 9:35. Jesus went about all the cities and the villages, teaching in their synagogues and preaching the Good News of the Kingdom, and healing every disease and every sickness among the people.
Proverbs 17:22. A cheerful heart makes good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
3 John 1:2. Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be healthy, even as your soul prospers.
Psalm 30:2. Yahweh my God, I cried to you, and you have healed me.
Malachi 4:2. But to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings. You will go out and leap like calves of the stall.
Mark 5:34. He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace, and be cured of your disease.”
Jeremiah 33:6. behold, I will bring it health and healing, and I will cure them; and I will reveal to them abundance of peace and truth.
Psalm 6:2. Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am faint. Yahweh, heal me, for my bones are troubled.
Isaiah 58:8. Then your light will break out as the morning, and your healing will appear quickly; then your righteousness shall go before you, and Yahweh’s glory will be your rear guard.