Scripture by topic
Healing
For bodies and hearts that ache.
Reflection
Healing sometimes comes quickly, sometimes slowly, sometimes as a strength to keep going. Scripture never treats your pain as an inconvenience. Bring the real thing — the diagnosis, the grief, the tiredness — and ask plainly.
“He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.”
Psalm 147:3 · KJV“Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for thou art my praise.”
Jeremiah 17:14 · KJV“He was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: and with his stripes we are healed.”
Isaiah 53:5 · KJV“Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him... and the prayer of faith shall save the sick.”
James 5:14–15 · KJV“I will put none of these diseases upon thee... for I am the LORD that healeth thee.”
Exodus 15:26 · KJV“Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits: who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases.”
Psalm 103:2–3 · KJV“And Jesus went about all the cities and villages... healing every sickness and every disease among the people.”
Matthew 9:35 · KJV“Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.”
3 John 1:2 · KJV“O LORD my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me.”
Psalm 30:2 · KJV“A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.”
Proverbs 17:22 · KJV