Healing -God – not Changed

Here is a broad collection of Bible passages about healing, grouped so you can use them for reading, prayer, or a message. Some describe physical healing, while others speak of forgiveness, comfort, or spiritual restoration.

God’s care and promises

• Exodus 15:26 — God says, “I am the LORD that healeth thee.”
• Exodus 23:25 — God promises to bless His people and take sickness away from among them.
• Psalm 30:2 — “O LORD my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me.”
• Psalm 41:3 — The Lord sustains the sick.
• Psalm 103:2–3 — Bless the Lord, who forgives iniquities and heals diseases.
• Psalm 107:19–20 — They cried to the Lord, and He sent His word and healed them.
• Psalm 147:3 — He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.
• Proverbs 4:20–22 — God’s words are life and health to those who find them.
• Jeremiah 17:14 — “Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed.”
• Jeremiah 30:17 — “I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds.”
• Jeremiah 33:6 — God speaks of bringing health, healing, and peace.

Jesus healing people

• Matthew 4:23–24 — Jesus taught, preached, and healed people with many kinds of illness.
• Matthew 8:1–3 — Jesus healed a man with leprosy.
• Matthew 8:5–13 — Jesus healed the centurion’s servant.
• Matthew 8:14–17 — Jesus healed Peter’s mother-in-law and many others.
• Matthew 9:20–22 — A woman who had suffered for twelve years was healed.
• Matthew 9:27–30 — Jesus gave sight to two blind men.
• Matthew 12:9–13 — Jesus restored a man’s withered hand.
• Matthew 14:34–36 — People brought the sick to Jesus, and those who touched His garment were healed.
• Mark 2:1–12 — Jesus forgave and healed a paralysed man.
• Mark 5:21–43 — Jesus healed a suffering woman and raised Jairus’s daughter.
• Mark 7:31–37 — Jesus healed a man who was deaf and had difficulty speaking.
• Mark 10:46–52 — Jesus restored Bartimaeus’s sight.
• Luke 13:10–17 — Jesus healed a woman who had been bent over for eighteen years.
• Luke 17:11–19 — Jesus cleansed ten men with leprosy.
• John 5:1–9 — Jesus healed a man at the pool of Bethesda.
• John 9:1–7 — Jesus gave sight to a man born blind.
• John 11:1–44 — Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead.

Prayer, the church, and healing

• Acts 3:1–10 — A man unable to walk was healed in Jesus’ name.
• Acts 9:32–35 — Aeneas was healed.
• Acts 9:36–42 — Peter prayed, and Tabitha was raised.
• Acts 28:7–9 — Paul prayed for Publius’s father, who was healed; others came for healing too.
• 1 Corinthians 12:9, 28–30 — Paul mentions gifts of healing among the gifts God gives.
• James 5:14–16 — Those who are sick are told to call for the elders of the church to pray over them.

Comfort and restoration

• Isaiah 53:4–5 and 1 Peter 2:24 — These passages speak of Christ bearing our sins and suffering; they are often read when praying for healing.
• Psalm 34:18 — The Lord is near to the brokenhearted.
• Isaiah 41:10 — God promises His presence and strength.
• 2 Corinthians 12:7–10 — Paul’s affliction remained despite his prayers, yet Christ told him, “My grace is sufficient for thee.”
• Revelation 21:4 — In God’s promised new creation, there will be no more death, sorrow, crying, or pain.
• Revelation 22:2 — The tree of life is described with leaves “for the healing of the nations.”

A good passage to begin with is James 5:14–16: it gives a clear invitation to pray for someone who is ill. The Bible also shows us how to trust God when healing does not come when we ask, as Paul did in 2 Corinthians 12:7–10.