Bible Verses About Healing
Scripture speaks of healing on at least three levels — physical, emotional, and relational — and does not promise that every prayer for it is answered the way the person asking hopes.
Healing verses are among the most quoted and most misused in the Bible; they are collected here with their contexts intact, including the passages that sit alongside unanswered prayer and ongoing suffering, not just the accounts where healing came quickly.
Featured verses
“He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.”
Psalm 147:3 · WEB
“Heal me, O Yahweh, and I will be healed. Save me, and I will be saved; for you are my praise.”
Jeremiah 17:14 · WEB
“Is any among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the assembly, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord.”
James 5:14-15 · WEB
“for I am Yahweh who heals you.”
Exodus 15:26 · WEB
“Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be healthy, even as your soul prospers.”
3 John 1:2 · WEB
More verses
“Praise Yahweh, my soul, and don't forget all his benefits, who forgives all your sins, who heals all your diseases.”
Psalm 103:2-3 · WEB“My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.”
2 Corinthians 12:9 · WEB
Questions about healing
Does the Bible promise physical healing to everyone who prays for it?
No — passages like 2 Corinthians 12:9, where Paul's own request for healing is answered with sustaining grace rather than removal of the affliction, sit alongside healing accounts and are usually read together rather than in isolation.