20 Bible Verses About Sickness

  • Psalms 6, 30 and 41 are prayers of sick people, and two of them (Psalm 6:5 and Psalm 30:9) ask for healing on the ground that the dead cannot praise God.
  • Hezekiah’s healing in 2 Kings 20 came in answer to his prayer and with a poultice of figs applied to his boil.
  • In John 9:3 Jesus denies that a man’s blindness from birth was punishment for his own or his parents’ sin, while in Psalm 41:4 a sick man ties his own illness to his sin.
  • James 5:14 tells the sick person to call the elders to pray and anoint with oil; its Greek word for sick, astheneo, also describes Epaphroditus (Philippians 2:26) and Trophimus (2 Timothy 4:20).
  • Paul left Trophimus sick in Miletus, and when he pleaded three times for his thorn to be removed he was told, “My grace is sufficient for you.”

The Bible says God heals the sick and tells the sick to pray and to call the church’s elders to pray over them. It also records faithful people who stayed sick for a time or were not relieved, and it promises a raised body with no more pain. At Marah God names himself “the LORD, who heals you” (Exodus 15:26). James 5:14-15 gives the church its instructions, and Revelation 21:4 promises a world without pain. The psalms of the sickbed…

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