Bible Verses About Healing
Healing, in Scripture, covers more than the physical. These verses speak to both the body and the heart.
These verses speak to both physical and emotional healing — a God described throughout Scripture as near to the brokenhearted. Below is a collection of verified King James Version verses about healing, offered alongside, not instead of, proper medical and professional care.
Bible Verses About Healing
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
It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.
Proverbs 3:8
A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
Ecclesiastes 3:3
O LORD my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me.
Psalms 30:2
He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.
Psalms 107:20
Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.
Isaiah 30:26
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
He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.
Psalms 147:3
And besought him greatly, saying, My little daughter lieth at the point of death: I pray thee, come and lay thy hands on her, that she may be healed; and she shall live.
Mark 5:23
And straightway the fountain of her blood was dried up; and she felt in her body that she was healed of that plague.
Mark 5:29
And a certain centurion’s servant, who was dear unto him, was sick, and ready to die.
Luke 7:2
And when he heard of Jesus, he sent unto him the elders of the Jews, beseeching him that he would come and heal his servant.
Luke 7:3
Wherefore neither thought I myself worthy to come unto thee: but say in a word, and my servant shall be healed.
Luke 7:7
And they that were sent, returning to the house, found the servant whole that had been sick.
Luke 7:10
And certain women, which had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities, Mary called Magdalene, out of whom went seven devils,
Luke 8:2
They also which saw it told them by what means he that was possessed of the devils was healed.
Luke 8:36
And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, which had spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed of any,
Luke 8:43
And when the woman saw that she was not hid, she came trembling, and falling down before him, she declared unto him before all the people for what cause she had touched him and how she was healed immediately.
Luke 8:47
And one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, and with a loud voice glorified God,
Luke 17:15
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
And as the lame man which was healed held Peter and John, all the people ran together unto them in the porch that is called Solomon’s, greatly wondering.
Acts 3:11
The same heard Paul speak: who stedfastly beholding him, and perceiving that he had faith to be healed,
Acts 14:9
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
Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.
Psalms 42:11
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 so much the more went there a fame abroad of him: and great multitudes came together to hear, and to be healed by him of their infirmities.
Luke 5:15
And it came to pass on a certain day, as he was teaching, that there were Pharisees and doctors of the law sitting by, which were come out of every town of Galilee, and Judaea, and Jerusalem: and the power of the Lord was present to heal them.
Luke 5:17
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 the scribes and Pharisees watched him, whether he would heal on the sabbath day; that they might find an accusation against him.
Luke 6:7
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
And they that were vexed with unclean spirits: and they were healed.
Luke 6:18
And the whole multitude sought to touch him: for there went virtue out of him, and healed them all.
Luke 6:19
And he sent them to preach the kingdom of God, and to heal the sick.
Luke 9:2
And they departed, and went through the towns, preaching the gospel, and healing every where.
Luke 9:6
And the people, when they knew it, followed him: and he received them, and spake unto them of the kingdom of God, and healed them that had need of healing.
Luke 9:11
And as he was yet a coming, the devil threw him down, and tare him. And Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, and healed the child, and delivered him again to his father.
Luke 9:42
And he that was healed wist not who it was: for Jesus had conveyed himself away, a multitude being in that place.
John 5:13
And there he found a certain man named Aeneas, which had kept his bed eight years, and was sick of the palsy.
Acts 9:33
And it came to pass in those days, that she was sick, and died: whom when they had washed, they laid her in an upper chamber.
Acts 9:37
And it came to pass, that the father of Publius lay sick of a fever and of a bloody flux: to whom Paul entered in, and prayed, and laid his hands on him, and healed him.
Acts 28:8
So when this was done, others also, which had diseases in the island, came, and were healed:
Acts 28:9
For the heart of this people is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes have they closed; lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.
Acts 28:27
But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom.
Psalms 35:13
Thou hast made the earth to tremble; thou hast broken it: heal the breaches thereof; for it shaketh.
Psalms 60:2
So Abraham prayed unto God: and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maidservants; and they bare children.
Genesis 20:17
See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.
Deuteronomy 32:39
But king Joram was returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Syrians had given him, when he fought with Hazael king of Syria.) And Jehu said, If it be your minds, then let none go forth nor escape out of the city to go to tell it in Jezreel.
2 Kings 9:15
Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.
Matthew 25:36
Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?
Matthew 25:39
I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
Matthew 25:43
Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?
Matthew 25:44
And they answered, Thy servant our father is in good health, he is yet alive. And they bowed down their heads, and made obeisance.
Genesis 43:28
And David spake to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brethren to be the singers with instruments of musick, psalteries and harps and cymbals, sounding, by lifting up the voice with joy.
1 Chronicles 15:16
And thou shalt have great sickness by disease of thy bowels, until thy bowels fall out by reason of the sickness day by day.
2 Chronicles 21:15
And it came to pass, that in process of time, after the end of two years, his bowels fell out by reason of his sickness: so he died of sore diseases. And his people made no burning for him, like the burning of his fathers.
2 Chronicles 21:19
And he returned to be healed in Jezreel because of the wounds which were given him at Ramah, when he fought with Hazael king of Syria. And Azariah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Jehoram the son of Ahab at Jezreel, because he was sick.
2 Chronicles 22:6
When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah saw his wound, then went Ephraim to the Assyrian, and sent to king Jareb: yet could he not heal you, nor cure you of your wound.
Hosea 5:13
When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they commit falsehood; and the thief cometh in, and the troop of robbers spoileth without.
Hosea 7:1
In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners.
Hosea 7:5
Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness is great.
Joel 3:13
And if a man shall lie with a woman having her sickness, and shall uncover her nakedness; he hath discovered her fountain, and she hath uncovered the fountain of her blood: and both of them shall be cut off from among their people.
Leviticus 20:18
Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee: begin to number the seven weeks from such time as thou beginnest to put the sickle to the corn.
Deuteronomy 16:9
And Alammelech, and Amad, and Misheal; and reacheth to Carmel westward, and to Shihor-libnath;
Joshua 19:26
All verses are quoted from the King James Version (KJV), a public-domain translation.
Understanding Healing Through Scripture
Scripture treats healing broadly — physical restoration, but also emotional and spiritual repair. Psalm 34:18 pairs the two directly: “The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart.” Nearness, not just eventual fixing, is the promise.
Jeremiah 17:14 asks plainly, “Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed,” modeling a directness that Scripture consistently permits in approaching God with physical need.
This idea appears throughout Bible Verses About Healing.
This is one of the reasons Bible Verses About Healing continue to resonate with so many readers.
What the Bible Teaches About Healing
The Gospels record Jesus healing repeatedly and across categories — blindness, paralysis, chronic illness, fever — always in response to real, specific need brought to him directly, whether by the person themselves or by someone on their behalf.
It is worth noticing who initiates these healings in the Gospels: sometimes Jesus approaches someone directly, but often it is the sick person, or someone on their behalf, who pushes through a crowd or lowers a friend through a roof to reach him. Scripture seems to make room for persistence in seeking healing, not only passive waiting.
It is a theme found again in Bible Verses About Healing.
Healing for the Body
James 5:14-15 gives an actual practice: calling for the elders to pray, anointing with oil, praying “the prayer of faith.” Scripture treats physical healing as something to actively pray toward, not merely hope for passively.
It is a theme that runs through Bible Verses About Healing again and again.
Healing for the Heart
Isaiah 61:1 describes a calling “to bind up the brokenhearted” — language that treats emotional wounds as real injuries deserving real attention, not something to simply push past.
Healing and Community
James 5:14’s instruction is notably communal — calling for the elders, not managing the situation alone. Illness, especially prolonged illness, tends to isolate people; Scripture’s response to it is to bring more people in, not fewer.
If you are walking through a health difficulty right now, this is a fairly direct invitation to let others know and to let them pray with you, rather than carrying it privately.
You will notice this echoed in Bible Verses About Healing.
This pattern shows up throughout Bible Verses About Healing above.
Waiting on God's Healing
Not every biblical figure is healed immediately, or in the way they expect — Paul’s unanswered request in 2 Corinthians 12 to have his “thorn in the flesh” removed is a direct, honest example. Scripture does not promise every prayer for healing resolves the way we ask.
When Healing Doesn't Come the Way You Hoped
Paul’s “thorn in the flesh” in 2 Corinthians 12 is Scripture’s clearest example of a request for physical healing that was not granted as asked. What he receives instead is a specific word: “My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness.” This does not erase the difficulty of an unhealed condition, but it does suggest Scripture does not treat ongoing illness as evidence of failed faith or forgotten prayer.
Several of Bible Verses About Healing touch on this same idea from a slightly different angle.
Emotional and Spiritual Healing
Psalm 147:3 pairs two kinds of healing in a single verse: God “healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.” This is language of injury and repair applied to grief, trauma, and emotional pain — not only physical ailment. Isaiah 53:5’s familiar line, “with his stripes we are healed,” is traditionally read as pointing toward this fuller, spiritual sense of healing as well.
This point is reinforced across Bible Verses About Healing.
A Few More Verses Worth Knowing
Exodus 15:26 introduces God with a name that is itself a promise: “I am the LORD that healeth thee.” Psalm 30:2’s simple testimony — “O LORD my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me” — and Matthew 9:22’s account of a woman healed after years of illness both model bringing physical need honestly and directly before God.
This is a thread that connects more than one of Bible Verses About Healing already covered.
Healing and Patience
Many healings recorded in Scripture happen instantly, which can set an expectation that all healing should. But Scripture also records slower processes — the woman with the issue of blood suffered for twelve years before her healing; Naaman was told to wash in the Jordan seven times, not once, before his leprosy cleared. Healing, biblically, is not always instant, and a slower timeline does not necessarily mean prayer has failed.
Caring for Others Who Are Unwell
Matthew 25’s account of the final judgment includes visiting the sick among the concrete acts commended — “I was sick, and ye visited me.” Scripture treats caring for someone who is unwell as a direct, tangible expression of faith, not merely a kind but optional gesture.
It surfaces more than once in Bible Verses About Healing.
Reading back through Bible Verses About Healing, this theme is hard to miss.
Healing and Faith
Several Gospel healings note the presence of faith explicitly — “thy faith hath made thee whole.” This has sometimes been misapplied to suggest a lack of healing means a lack of faith, which Scripture as a whole does not support; Paul’s own unhealed “thorn” makes that reading untenable. Faith, in these accounts, seems to describe the posture of bringing the need to Jesus honestly, not a guaranteed formula for a specific outcome.
A Few More Verses Worth Knowing
Psalm 41:3 promises the Lord will “strengthen him upon the bed of languishing” — comfort specifically for prolonged illness, not just sudden recovery. 3 John 1:2’s greeting, wishing health “even as thy soul prospereth,” and Matthew 8:17’s connection of Jesus’ healing ministry to Isaiah’s prophecy both reinforce healing as a consistent thread running through both Testaments.
It is a small detail, but one Bible Verses About Healing return to more than once.
Healing the Whole Person
3 John 1:2’s wish for health that matches how “thy soul prospereth” suggests Scripture does not neatly separate physical, emotional, and spiritual health the way modern categories sometimes do. A person can be physically well and spiritually depleted, or physically unwell and spiritually steady — Scripture seems interested in the whole picture, not one category in isolation.
This is consistent with the rest of Bible Verses About Healing.
Supporting Someone Else's Healing
Galatians 6:2’s instruction to bear one another’s burdens applies directly here. Practically, this might mean showing up with a meal, sitting through a hospital wait, or simply checking in consistently over a long recovery rather than only in the first difficult week. Scripture treats sustained, unglamorous support as a genuine form of care, not a lesser substitute for prayer.
This connects directly to why Bible Verses About Healing matter in the first place.
Healing Through Community Prayer
James 5’s instruction to call the elders for prayer and anointing describes a specific, communal process rather than a private, solitary one. There is something significant in the instruction to call others in — illness, especially prolonged illness, can push a person toward isolation exactly when connection matters most. Scripture’s response to sickness consistently involves gathering people closer, not pulling away.
Healing and Gratitude
Luke 17’s account of ten lepers healed, only one of whom returns to give thanks, is a quiet but pointed story. Gratitude for healing already received — even partial healing, even healing of something small — is treated as its own act of faith, not merely a polite afterthought once the bigger need has passed.
It lines up with what Bible Verses About Healing teach elsewhere.
Bringing Your Specific Need to God
Throughout the Gospels, people bring very specific needs to Jesus — not vague requests for “help,” but named conditions: blindness, a specific fever, a particular kind of suffering carried for a specific number of years. This specificity is worth imitating in prayer. Naming exactly what hurts, and exactly what you are hoping for, tends to be a more honest and complete prayer than a general request for things to improve.
Several of Bible Verses About Healing echo this same idea in their own words.
A Closing Word on Healing
Whether you are praying for your own body, your own heart, or someone you love, these verses are offered as companions for that prayer — not a guarantee of a specific timeline, but a reminder of a God who is consistently described, across both Testaments, as near to those who are hurting.
Healing as Part of a Larger Story
Every healing recorded in Scripture happens within a larger story — a person’s specific circumstances, relationships, and faith, not an isolated medical event. This is a helpful reminder that your own healing, whatever form it takes, is not separate from the rest of your life either. Prayer for healing can reasonably include prayer for everything the illness has touched — finances, relationships, fear — not only the physical symptom itself.
This detail matters when reading Bible Verses About Healing as a whole.
This is exactly the kind of thing Bible Verses About Healing are meant to speak into.
Healing and Honest Lament
Many of the Psalms that mention sickness or physical suffering do not end with a tidy resolution — they simply record the honest cry itself. This matters for anyone whose prayer for healing feels more like ongoing lament than triumphant testimony right now. Scripture makes clear room for that stage too, not only for the eventual recovery.
Healing and the Long Road of Recovery
Recovery, physical or otherwise, is rarely a straight line. Scripture’s honesty about slow, uneven healing — the woman with the issue of blood suffering for over a decade before her healing, Naaman needing seven full dips in the Jordan rather than one — gives real permission for your own healing process to look uneven too, without that unevenness meaning something has gone wrong.
It is worth pausing here, since Bible Verses About Healing circle back to this often.
A Closing Word on Healing
These verses do not promise a specific timeline or a guaranteed outcome. They describe a God who is consistently near to the sick and the brokenhearted, worth bringing your specific need to honestly, whatever stage of healing you currently find yourself in.
It is worth noticing across Bible Verses About Healing.
Healing and Hope Together
Healing and hope are closely linked throughout Scripture — the hope that recovery is possible is often what sustains someone through a long, difficult treatment or illness. If you are walking through an unhealed condition today, know that hope and an unresolved diagnosis are not contradictory; Scripture repeatedly holds both together without treating either as a betrayal of the other.
This idea sits close to the center of Bible Verses About Healing as a whole.
One Final Word on Healing
Whatever you are hoping to see healed — in your body, your heart, or someone you love — bring it honestly to God today. Scripture makes no promise about the exact timeline, but it is remarkably consistent about the nearness of a God who notices.
Healing and the Whole Community of Faith
The early church in Acts is repeatedly shown praying together for healing, sharing resources to care for the sick, and treating physical wellbeing as a shared responsibility rather than a private burden. This communal thread runs through the entire New Testament picture of healing — rarely a solitary transaction between one person and God alone.
This shows up again later in Bible Verses About Healing.
Carrying Hope Into the Waiting Room
Waiting rooms, test results, and follow-up appointments make up much of what illness actually feels like day to day — far more than dramatic turning points. These ordinary, anxious waiting periods are exactly where these verses are meant to be carried, not only into the moments of crisis or celebration.
Healing for Those Who Care for the Sick
Caregivers themselves often need as much prayer as the person they are caring for, though they rarely ask for it. If you are caring for someone else through illness right now, these verses are for you as well — for your own strength, patience, and rest, not only for the person you are looking after.
This is part of what makes Bible Verses About Healing worth reading slowly, not just once.
Healing and Mental Health
Scripture’s language of healing extends naturally to mental and emotional health, even though modern categories for this did not yet exist when it was written. Elijah’s despair, David’s anxiety recorded openly in the Psalms, and Job’s depression are all treated with the same seriousness as physical ailment — met with rest, presence, and honest lament rather than dismissal.
It is echoed again in Bible Verses About Healing.
Healing and Gratitude for Small Progress
Recovery rarely arrives all at once. Noticing and giving thanks for small, incremental improvement — a better night’s sleep, a little more strength, one good day among difficult ones — keeps gratitude present throughout a long healing process, rather than reserving it only for a final, complete resolution.
This is one of the reasons Bible Verses About Healing continue to resonate with so many readers.
One Final Word on Healing
Bring your specific need honestly to God today, whatever stage of healing you are currently in — waiting, recovering, or still hurting. Scripture makes no promise about the exact timeline, but it is remarkably consistent about the nearness of a God who notices and cares.
A Simple Prayer for Healing
If it helps, try praying simply: “Lord, you know exactly what hurts right now. I ask for your healing, and I ask for your peace while I wait for it.” Short, honest prayers like this one are entirely sufficient — nothing more elaborate is required.
This holds true across Bible Verses About Healing.
This collection draws on the King James Version, a public-domain translation available in full at Blue Letter Bible, for anyone who wants to study the wider context of any verse above.
Final Thoughts
If you are walking through illness or a wound that has not closed, these verses are not a substitute for medical or professional care, but a reminder that you are not asking God to notice something he is unfamiliar with. Healing, in every sense Scripture describes it, is something God is described as actively near to.
Come back to this page as often as you need to — it will still be here the next time healing feels far away.
This idea appears throughout Bible Verses About Healing.
And if you know someone else walking through illness right now, consider sending them one verse from this page today — a small act that can mean more than it seems to from the outside.
Thank you for reading this far. We hope these one hundred verses on healing serve you well, today and in whatever comes next.