What Does the Bible Say About Healing Prayer?

1 Peter 2:24 ESV / 53 helpful votes

He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.

James 5:16 ESV / 42 helpful votes

Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.

James 5:14 ESV / 39 helpful votes

Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord.

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 35 helpful votes

I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

Proverbs 4:20-22 ESV / 34 helpful votes

My son, be attentive to my words; incline your ear to my sayings. Let them not escape from your sight; keep them within your heart. For they are life to those who find them, and healing to all their flesh.

Matthew 10:1 ESV / 29 helpful votes

And he called to him his twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every affliction.

Hebrews 11:6 ESV / 27 helpful votes

And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.

Mark 16:17-18 ESV / 22 helpful votes

And these signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues; they will pick up serpents with their hands; and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will recover.”

Matthew 10:8 ESV / 22 helpful votes

Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse lepers, cast out demons. You received without paying; give without pay.

3 John 1:2 ESV / 20 helpful votes

Beloved, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in good health, as it goes well with your soul.

James 5:14-15 ESV / 18 helpful votes

Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer of faith will save the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.

Matthew 8:16-17 ESV / 17 helpful votes

That evening they brought to him many who were oppressed by demons, and he cast out the spirits with a word and healed all who were sick. This was to fulfill what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah: “He took our illnesses and bore our diseases.”

Isaiah 53:5 ESV / 17 helpful votes

But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed.

Matthew 8:17 ESV / 16 helpful votes

This was to fulfill what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah: “He took our illnesses and bore our diseases.”

Psalm 30:2 ESV / 16 helpful votes

O Lord my God, I cried to you for help, and you have healed me.

1 John 5:14-15 ESV / 14 helpful votes

And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us. And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him.

Hebrews 13:8 ESV / 14 helpful votes

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

Acts 14:8-10 ESV / 14 helpful votes

Now at Lystra there was a man sitting who could not use his feet. He was crippled from birth and had never walked. He listened to Paul speaking. And Paul, looking intently at him and seeing that he had faith to be made well, said in a loud voice, “Stand upright on your feet.” And he sprang up and began walking.

Acts 10:38 ESV / 14 helpful votes

How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power. He went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.

Jeremiah 17:14 ESV / 13 helpful votes

Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved, for you are my praise.

Isaiah 53:1-12 ESV / 13 helpful votes

Who has believed what he has heard from us? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? For he grew up before him like a young plant, and like a root out of dry ground; he had no form or majesty that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed. ...

Psalm 41:1-3 ESV / 13 helpful votes

To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. Blessed is the one who considers the poor! In the day of trouble the Lord delivers him; the Lord protects him and keeps him alive; he is called blessed in the land; you do not give him up to the will of his enemies. The Lord sustains him on his sickbed; in his illness you restore him to full health.

Psalm 19:1-14 ESV / 12 helpful votes

To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork. Day to day pours out speech, and night to night reveals knowledge. There is no speech, nor are there words, whose voice is not heard. Their voice goes out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them he has set a tent for the sun, which comes out like a bridegroom leaving his chamber, and, like a strong man, runs its course with joy. ...

Exodus 15:26 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Saying, “If you will diligently listen to the voice of the Lord your God, and do that which is right in his eyes, and give ear to his commandments and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you that I put on the Egyptians, for I am the Lord, your healer.”

Philippians 1:2 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Romans 12:2 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Hebrews 12:12-13 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Therefore lift your drooping hands and strengthen your weak knees, and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be put out of joint but rather be healed.

1 Timothy 5:23 ESV / 9 helpful votes

(No longer drink only water, but use a little wine for the sake of your stomach and your frequent ailments.)

Luke 10:8-9 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Whenever you enter a town and they receive you, eat what is set before you. Heal the sick in it and say to them, ‘The kingdom of God has come near to you.’

Isaiah 59:19 ESV / 9 helpful votes

So they shall fear the name of the Lord from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun; for he will come like a rushing stream, which the wind of the Lord drives.

Psalm 107:20 ESV / 9 helpful votes

He sent out his word and healed them, and delivered them from their destruction.

Psalm 103:2-5 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits, who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit, who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy, who satisfies you with good so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's.

Philippians 1:7 ESV / 6 helpful votes

It is right for me to feel this way about you all, because I hold you in my heart, for you are all partakers with me of grace, both in my imprisonment and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel.

Luke 10:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes

After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them on ahead of him, two by two, into every town and place where he himself was about to go.

Matthew 6:9-10 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Pray then like this: “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.

James 5:1-20 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Come now, you rich, weep and howl for the miseries that are coming upon you. Your riches have rotted and your garments are moth-eaten. Your gold and silver have corroded, and their corrosion will be evidence against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up treasure in the last days. Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, are crying out against you, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts. You have lived on the earth in luxury and in self-indulgence. You have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter. ...

John 14:12 ESV / 5 helpful votes

“Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I am going to the Father.

Job 33:23-26 ESV / 4 helpful votes

If there be for him an angel, a mediator, one of the thousand, to declare to man what is right for him, and he is merciful to him, and says, ‘Deliver him from going down into the pit; I have found a ransom; let his flesh become fresh with youth; let him return to the days of his youthful vigor’; then man prays to God, and he accepts him; he sees his face with a shout of joy, and he restores to man his righteousness.

Proverbs 23:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

When your eyes light on it, it is gone, for suddenly it sprouts wings, flying like an eagle toward heaven.

39 Bible Verses about Healing Prayer

1 Peter 2:24 ESV / 53 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

James 5:16 ESV / 42 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

James 5:14 ESV / 39 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 35 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 4:20-22 ESV / 34 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 10:1 ESV / 29 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Hebrews 11:6 ESV / 27 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Mark 16:17-18 ESV / 22 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 10:8 ESV / 22 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

3 John 1:2 ESV / 20 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

James 5:14-15 ESV / 18 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 8:16-17 ESV / 17 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 53:5 ESV / 17 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 8:17 ESV / 16 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 30:2 ESV / 16 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 John 5:14-15 ESV / 14 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Hebrews 13:8 ESV / 14 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Acts 14:8-10 ESV / 14 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Acts 10:38 ESV / 14 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Jeremiah 17:14 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 53:1-12 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 41:1-3 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 19:1-14 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Exodus 15:26 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Philippians 1:2 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 12:2 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Hebrews 12:12-13 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Timothy 5:23 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 10:8-9 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 59:19 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 107:20 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 103:2-5 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Philippians 1:7 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 10:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 6:9-10 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

James 5:1-20 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 14:12 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Job 33:23-26 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 23:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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