What Does the Bible Say About Diseases?
Here are 10 Bible verses about diseases, ordered by how relevant readers found them, with the King James Version and the modern Berean Standard Bible side by side.
- #1Exodus 15:26
And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the Lord that healeth thee.
BSBsaying, “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.”
- #2Exodus 23:25
And ye shall serve the Lord your God, and he shall bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee.
BSBSo you shall serve the LORD your God, and He will bless your bread and your water. And I will take away sickness from among you.
- #3Jeremiah 33:6
Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them, and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth.
BSBNevertheless, I will bring to it health and healing, and I will heal its people and reveal to them the abundance of peace and truth.
- #4Psalms 103:3
Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases;
BSBHe who forgives all your iniquities and heals all your diseases,
- #5Proverbs 17:22
A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
BSBA joyful heart is good medicine, but a broken spirit dries up the bones.
- #6Psalms 107:20
He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.
BSBHe sent forth His word and healed them; He rescued them from the Pit.
- #72 Chronicles 7:14
If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
BSBand if My people who are called by My name humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land.
- #8Psalms 103:2-4
Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits: Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases; Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies;
BSBBless 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,
- #92 Corinthians 12:7-10
And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure. For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me. And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ’s sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.
BSBor 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.
- #10Mark 5:26
And had suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse,
BSBShe 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.
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Diseases in Torrey's Topical Textbook
- Often sent as punishment: De 28:21; Joh 5:14
- Often brought from other countries: De 7:15
- Often through Satan: 1Sa 16:14-16; Job 2:7
- Regarded as visitations: Job 2:7-10; Ps 38:2,7
- Intemperance a cause of: Ho 7:5
- Sins of youth a cause of: Job 20:11
- Over-excitement a cause of: Da 8:27
- Were many and divers: Mt 4:24
- MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE
- Ague: Le 26:16
- Abscess: 2Ki 20:7
- Atrophy: Job 16:8; 19:20
- Blindness: Job 29:15; Mt 9:27
- Boils and blains: Ex 9:10
- Consumption: Le 26:16; De 28:22
- Demoniacal possession: Mt 15:22; Mr 5:15
- Deafness: Ps 38:13; Mr 7:32
- Debility: Ps 102:23; Eze 7:17
- Dropsy: Lu 14:2
- Dumbness: Pr 31:8; Mt 9:32
- Dysentery: 2Ch 21:12-19; Ac 28:8
- Emerods: De 28:27; 1Sa 5:6,12
- Fever: De 28:22; Mt 8:14
- Impediment speech: Mr 7:32
- Itch: De 28:27
- Inflammation: De 28:22
- Issue of blood: Mt 9:20
- Lameness: 2Sa 4:4; 2Ch 16:12
- Leprosy: Le 13:2; 2Ki 5:1
- Loss of appetite: Job 33:20; Ps 107:18
- Lunacy: Mt 4:24; 17:15
- Melancholy: 1Sa 16:14
- Palsy: Mt 8:6; 9:2
- Plague: Nu 11:33; 2Sa 24:15,21,25
- Scab: De 28:27
- Sunstroke: 2Ki 4:18-20; Isa 49:10
- Ulcers: Isa 1:6; Lu 16:20
- Worms: Ac 12:23
- Children subject to: 2Sa 12:15; 1Ki 17:17
- FREQUENTLY
- Loathsome: Ps 38:7; 41:8
- Painful: 2Ch 21:15; Job 33:19
- Tedious: De 28:59; Joh 5:5; Lu 13:16
- Complicated: De 28:60,61; Ac 28:8
- Incurable: 2Ch 21:18; Jer 14:19
- Physicians undertook the cure of: Jer 8:22; Mt 9:12; Lu 4:23
- Medicine used for curing: Pr 17:22; Isa 1:6
- Art of curing, defective: Job 13:4; Mr 5:26
- God often entreated to cure: 2Sa 12:16; 2Ki 20:1-3; Ps 6:2; Jas 5:14
- Not looking to God in, condemned: 2Ch 16:12
- THOSE AFFLICTED WITH
- Anointed: Mr 6:13; Jas 5:14
- Often laid in the streets to receive advice from passers by: Mr 6:56; Ac 5:15
- Often divinely supported: Ps 41:3
- Often divinely cured: 2Ki 20:5; Jas 5:15
- Illustrative of sin: Isa 1:5