The Gospels repeatedly show Jesus healing the sick directly, establishing a consistent pattern of compassion toward physical suffering. This page gathers verified verses on healing the sick.
Every verse below is drawn from a verified King James Version text.
Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases;
Psalms 103:3
Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting: neither were instruments of musick brought before him: and his sleep went from him.
Daniel 6:18
And a certain centurion’s servant, who was dear unto him, was sick, and ready to die.
Luke 7:2
And they that were sent, returning to the house, found the servant whole that had been sick.
Luke 7:10
And a great multitude followed him, because they saw his miracles which he did on them that were diseased.
John 6:2
Now a certain man was sick, named Lazarus, of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha.
John 11:1
(It was that Mary which anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.)
John 11:2
Therefore his sisters sent unto him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick.
John 11:3
When Jesus heard that, he said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby.
John 11:4
When he had heard therefore that he was sick, he abode two days still in the same place where he was.
John 11:6
They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.
Proverbs 23:35
And the LORD will take away from thee all sickness, and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee; but will lay them upon all them that hate thee.
Deuteronomy 7:15
And he could there do no mighty work, save that he laid his hands upon a few sick folk, and healed them.
Mark 6:5
And they cast out many devils, and anointed with oil many that were sick, and healed them.
Mark 6:13
And ran through that whole region round about, and began to carry about in beds those that were sick, where they heard he was.
Mark 6:55
And whithersoever he entered, into villages, or cities, or country, they laid the sick in the streets, and besought him that they might touch if it were but the border of his garment: and as many as touched him were made whole.
Mark 6:56
They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.
Mark 16:18
But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power upon earth to forgive sins, (he said unto the sick of the palsy,) I say unto thee, Arise, and take up thy couch, and go into thine house.
Luke 5:24
And Jesus answering said unto them, They that are whole need not a physician; but they that are sick.
Luke 5:31
And he came down with them, and stood in the plain, and the company of his disciples, and a great multitude of people out of all Judaea and Jerusalem, and from the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, which came to hear him, and to be healed of their diseases;
Luke 6:17
All verses are quoted from the King James Version (KJV), a public-domain translation.
Matthew 4:23’s summary that Jesus went about “healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people” establishes healing as a consistent, repeated pattern in his ministry.
This is one of the reasons Bible Verses About Healing the Sick continue to matter to readers.
If this speaks to your current situation, you may also want to read Bible Verses For Physical Healing or Bible Verses For God's Plan, both of which touch on related ground.
Every verse on this page is drawn from the King James Version, a public-domain translation available in full at Blue Letter Bible for anyone who wants to study the wider context.
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Every verse gathered in Bible Verses About Healing the Sick was originally written as part of a larger passage, letter, or narrative. Reading a single verse on its own is genuinely useful, but if one particular verse stands out to you, it is worth taking a few extra minutes to read the surrounding chapter. Context rarely changes what a verse means, but it often deepens it.
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Every verse in Bible Verses About Healing the Sick is drawn from the King James Version specifically, a translation completed in 1611 that remains one of the most widely quoted English versions of Scripture. Its language is more formal than modern translations, which some readers find adds a certain weight to familiar passages.
The twenty verses in Bible Verses About Healing the Sick were selected specifically because they speak directly to this subject, rather than only mentioning it in passing. Some are well known; others are easy to overlook on a first read through Scripture. Both kinds are included here because familiarity is not the same as relevance — a lesser-known verse can sometimes say exactly what a well-known one does not.
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Scripture collections like Bible Verses About Healing the Sick work best as a returning place, not a one-time stop. The verses here will still be accurate and still be relevant the next time you need them, whether that is tomorrow or a year from now, which is precisely the point of gathering them together in one place rather than leaving you to search for each one individually.
A handful of verses in Bible Verses About Healing the Sick tend to stand out more than the rest on repeated reading, though which ones stand out often differs from person to person. There is no wrong choice here — the verse that matters most is usually the one that speaks directly to whatever you are carrying at the time you read it.
Twenty verses is enough to give a genuine sense of how often Scripture returns to this subject, without becoming so long that no single verse gets the attention it deserves. Shorter lists risk missing important passages; much longer ones risk turning into a list nobody actually reads all the way through.
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Healing the sick is shown throughout the Gospels as a direct, repeated expression of compassion, not an isolated or rare event.