What Does the Bible Say About Heart Diseases?

Exodus 15:26 ESV / 20 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.”

Exodus 23:25 ESV / 18 helpful votes

You shall serve the Lord your God, and he will bless your bread and your water, and I will take sickness away from among you.

Mark 16:18 ESV / 14 helpful votes

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.”

3 John 1:2 ESV / 13 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.

Romans 8:28 ESV / 12 helpful votes

And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.

Proverbs 17:22 ESV / 12 helpful votes

A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

James 5:14 ESV / 11 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.

Psalm 103:1-5 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Of David. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name! 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.

Deuteronomy 7:15 ESV / 11 helpful votes

And the Lord will take away from you all sickness, and none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which you knew, will he inflict on you, but he will lay them on all who hate you.

Luke 7:21 ESV / 10 helpful votes

In that hour he healed many people of diseases and plagues and evil spirits, and on many who were blind he bestowed sight.

Isaiah 53:5 ESV / 10 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.

Proverbs 4:20-22 ESV / 10 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.

Psalm 107:20 ESV / 10 helpful votes

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

Colossians 3:5 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

Revelation 21:4 ESV / 8 helpful votes

He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.”

Ephesians 6:13 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand firm.

John 14:27 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.

Hebrews 13:4 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

John 10:10 ESV / 7 helpful votes

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.

John 5:1-10:42 ESV / 7 helpful votes

After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Aramaic called Bethesda, which has five roofed colonnades. In these lay a multitude of invalids—blind, lame, and paralyzed. One man was there who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to be healed?” ...

Luke 4:40 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Now when the sun was setting, all those who had any who were sick with various diseases brought them to him, and he laid his hands on every one of them and healed them.

Matthew 4:23 ESV / 6 helpful votes

And he went throughout all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom and healing every disease and every affliction among the people.

Psalm 147:3 ESV / 6 helpful votes

He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.

Psalm 38:7 ESV / 6 helpful votes

For my sides are filled with burning, and there is no soundness in my flesh.

James 5:16 ESV / 5 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.

Romans 12:2 ESV / 5 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.

Acts 28:8 ESV / 5 helpful votes

It happened that the father of Publius lay sick with fever and dysentery. And Paul visited him and prayed, and putting his hands on him, healed him.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 5 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Galatians 5:19-21 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

1 Corinthians 6:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food”—and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

Acts 19:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

So that even handkerchiefs or aprons that had touched his skin were carried away to the sick, and their diseases left them and the evil spirits came out of them.

Luke 13:11-13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And behold, there was a woman who had had a disabling spirit for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not fully straighten herself. When Jesus saw her, he called her over and said to her, “Woman, you are freed from your disability.” And he laid his hands on her, and immediately she was made straight, and she glorified God.

Luke 9:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And he called the twelve together and gave them power and authority over all demons and to cure diseases,

Matthew 9:35 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And Jesus went throughout all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom and healing every disease and every affliction.

Matthew 8:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And when Jesus entered Peter's house, he saw his mother-in-law lying sick with a fever.

Isaiah 53:4-5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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.

Joshua 1:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”

Leviticus 26:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Then I will do this to you: I will visit you with panic, with wasting disease and fever that consume the eyes and make the heart ache. And you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.

Ephesians 5:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.

Ephesians 5:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For you may be sure of this, that everyone who is sexually immoral or impure, or who is covetous (that is, an idolater), has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.

Romans 12:1-2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. 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.

Luke 9:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes

When the crowds learned it, they followed him, and he welcomed them and spoke to them of the kingdom of God and cured those who had need of healing.

Luke 4:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And he said to them, “Doubtless you will quote to me this proverb, ‘“Physician, heal yourself.” What we have heard you did at Capernaum, do here in your hometown as well.’”

Mark 6:56 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And wherever he came, in villages, cities, or countryside, they laid the sick in the marketplaces and implored him that they might touch even the fringe of his garment. And as many as touched it were made well.

Mark 5:26 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And who had suffered much under many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was no better but rather grew worse.

Matthew 10:1 ESV / 3 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.

Matthew 9:32 ESV / 3 helpful votes

As they were going away, behold, a demon-oppressed man who was mute was brought to him.

Jeremiah 30:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For I will restore health to you, and your wounds I will heal, declares the Lord, because they have called you an outcast: ‘It is Zion, for whom no one cares!’

Proverbs 16:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Gracious words are like a honeycomb, sweetness to the soul and health to the body.

Psalm 30:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

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

2 Chronicles 16:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes

In the thirty-ninth year of his reign Asa was diseased in his feet, and his disease became severe. Yet even in his disease he did not seek the Lord, but sought help from physicians.

2 Kings 20:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And Isaiah said, “Bring a cake of figs. And let them take and lay it on the boil, that he may recover.”

Deuteronomy 28:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes

The Lord will strike you with wasting disease and with fever, inflammation and fiery heat, and with drought and with blight and with mildew. They shall pursue you until you perish.

Matthew 4:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

So his fame spread throughout all Syria, and they brought him all the sick, those afflicted with various diseases and pains, those oppressed by demons, those having seizures, and paralytics, and he healed them.

Jeremiah 8:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then has the health of the daughter of my people not been restored?

2 Chronicles 21:12-19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And a letter came to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, “Thus says the Lord, the God of David your father, ‘Because you have not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat your father, or in the ways of Asa king of Judah, but have walked in the way of the kings of Israel and have enticed Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem into whoredom, as the house of Ahab led Israel into whoredom, and also you have killed your brothers, of your father's house, who were better than you, behold, the Lord will bring a great plague on your people, your children, your wives, and all your possessions, and you yourself will have a severe sickness with a disease of your bowels, until your bowels come out because of the disease, day by day.’” And the Lord stirred up against Jehoram the anger of the Philistines and of the Arabians who are near the Ethiopians. ...

2 Samuel 12:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Then Nathan went to his house. And the Lord afflicted the child that Uriah's wife bore to David, and he became sick.

58 Bible Verses about Heart Diseases

Exodus 15:26 ESV / 20 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Exodus 23:25 ESV / 18 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Mark 16:18 ESV / 14 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

3 John 1:2 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 8:28 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 17:22 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

James 5:14 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 103:1-5 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Deuteronomy 7:15 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 7:21 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 53:5 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 4:20-22 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 107:20 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Colossians 3:5 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 21:4 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 6:13 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 14:27 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Hebrews 13:4 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 10:10 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 5:1-10:42 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 4:40 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 4:23 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 147:3 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 38:7 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Romans 12:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Acts 28:8 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 3:16-17 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Galatians 5:19-21 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 6:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Acts 19:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 13:11-13 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 9:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 9:35 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 8:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 53:4-5 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Joshua 1:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Leviticus 26:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 5:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 5:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 12:1-2 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 9:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 4:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Mark 6:56 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Mark 5:26 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 10:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 9:32 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Jeremiah 30:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 16:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 30:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Chronicles 16:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Kings 20:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Deuteronomy 28:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 4:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Jeremiah 8:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Chronicles 21:12-19 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Samuel 12:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Suggest a Verse

Enter a Verse Reference (e.g., John 3:16-17)