100 Bible Verses about The Great Physician

Mark 2:17 ESV / 194 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And when Jesus heard it, he said to them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.”

Psalm 103:3 ESV / 134 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases,

Exodus 15:26 ESV / 132 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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.”

Matthew 9:12 ESV / 121 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But when he heard it, he said, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick.

Luke 4:23 ESV / 106 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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 5:25-34 ESV / 98 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And there was a woman who had had a discharge of blood for twelve years, and who had suffered much under many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was no better but rather grew worse. She had heard the reports about Jesus and came up behind him in the crowd and touched his garment. For she said, “If I touch even his garments, I will be made well.” And immediately the flow of blood dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of her disease. ...

Isaiah 53:5 ESV / 98 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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.

Colossians 4:14 ESV / 97 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke the beloved physician greets you, as does Demas.

Luke 5:31 ESV / 87 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And Jesus answered them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick.

Jeremiah 17:14 ESV / 86 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

1 Peter 2:24 ESV / 84 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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.

Jeremiah 8:22 ESV / 82 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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?

Jeremiah 30:17 ESV / 72 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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!’

Psalm 107:19-21 ESV / 72 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble, and he delivered them from their distress. He sent out his word and healed them, and delivered them from their destruction. Let them thank the Lord for his steadfast love, for his wondrous works to the children of man!

Mark 5:26 ESV / 69 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Psalm 103:2-3 ESV / 66 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits, who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases,

Psalm 147:3 ESV / 65 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.

Mark 5:34 ESV / 59 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And he said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace, and be healed of your disease.”

Proverbs 17:22 ESV / 57 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

3 John 1:2 ESV / 54 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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.

John 14:27 ESV / 54 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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.

James 5:14-15 ESV / 53 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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.

Job 13:4 ESV / 52 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

As for you, you whitewash with lies; worthless physicians are you all.

Jeremiah 33:6 ESV / 50 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Behold, I will bring to it health and healing, and I will heal them and reveal to them abundance of prosperity and security.

Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 50 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. ...

2 Chronicles 16:12 ESV / 50 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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.

Luke 19:10 ESV / 48 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 47 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

Acts 4:12 ESV / 46 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”

Psalm 41:4 ESV / 45 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

As for me, I said, “O Lord, be gracious to me; heal me, for I have sinned against you!”

John 10:29 ESV / 44 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand.

Deuteronomy 32:39 ESV / 44 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“‘See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god beside me; I kill and I make alive; I wound and I heal; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand.

Psalm 41:3 ESV / 43 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The Lord sustains him on his sickbed; in his illness you restore him to full health.

Psalm 6:2 ESV / 42 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am languishing; heal me, O Lord, for my bones are troubled.

Matthew 9:35 ESV / 41 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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.

Exodus 23:25 ESV / 38 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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.

1 Timothy 5:23 ESV / 36 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Romans 3:23 ESV / 33 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

John 3:16 ESV / 33 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Matthew 9:13 ESV / 33 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice.’ For I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.”

Matthew 9:12-13 ESV / 32 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But when he heard it, he said, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. Go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice.’ For I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.”

Matthew 4:23-24 ESV / 32 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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. 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.

Revelation 21:4 ESV / 31 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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.”

Matthew 4:23 ESV / 31 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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 46:10 ESV / 31 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!”

Job 5:18 ESV / 31 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For he wounds, but he binds up; he shatters, but his hands heal.

Genesis 50:2 ESV / 31 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father. So the physicians embalmed Israel.

Hosea 6:1 ESV / 30 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Come, let us return to the Lord; for he has torn us, that he may heal us; he has struck us down, and he will bind us up.

James 3:5 ESV / 29 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

So also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great things. How great a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire!

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 29 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 29 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“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.

Luke 5:31-32 ESV / 29 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And Jesus answered them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance.”

Mark 2:5 ESV / 29 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And when Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven.”

Matthew 14:14 ESV / 29 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

When he went ashore he saw a great crowd, and he had compassion on them and healed their sick.

Isaiah 41:10 ESV / 29 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.

Revelation 18:21 ESV / 28 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Then a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone and threw it into the sea, saying, “So will Babylon the great city be thrown down with violence, and will be found no more;

James 5:14 ESV / 28 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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 4:6 ESV / 28 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

Luke 8:43 ESV / 27 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And there was a woman who had had a discharge of blood for twelve years, and though she had spent all her living on physicians, she could not be healed by anyone.

Luke 5:29 ESV / 27 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And Levi made him a great feast in his house, and there was a large company of tax collectors and others reclining at table with them.

Acts 10:37-38 ESV / 26 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

You yourselves know what happened throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee after the baptism that John proclaimed: 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.

Mark 1:40-45 ESV / 26 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And a leper came to him, imploring him, and kneeling said to him, “If you will, you can make me clean.” Moved with pity, he stretched out his hand and touched him and said to him, “I will; be clean.” And immediately the leprosy left him, and he was made clean. And Jesus sternly charged him and sent him away at once, and said to him, “See that you say nothing to anyone, but go, show yourself to the priest and offer for your cleansing what Moses commanded, for a proof to them.” ...

Psalm 147:5 ESV / 26 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Great is our Lord, and abundant in power; his understanding is beyond measure.

Romans 6:23 ESV / 25 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 5:8 ESV / 25 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Revelation 21:10 ESV / 23 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great, high mountain, and showed me the holy city Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God,

1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 23 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

Matthew 9:9 ESV / 23 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

As Jesus passed on from there, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax booth, and he said to him, “Follow me.” And he rose and followed him.

2 Corinthians 7:4 ESV / 22 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

I am acting with great boldness toward you; I have great pride in you; I am filled with comfort. In all our affliction, I am overflowing with joy.

Acts 4:33 ESV / 22 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And with great power the apostles were giving their testimony to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and great grace was upon them all.

Luke 17:12-19 ESV / 22 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And as he entered a village, he was met by ten lepers, who stood at a distance and lifted up their voices, saying, “Jesus, Master, have mercy on us.” When he saw them he said to them, “Go and show yourselves to the priests.” And as they went they were cleansed. Then one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, praising God with a loud voice; and he fell on his face at Jesus' feet, giving him thanks. Now he was a Samaritan. ...

Revelation 22:2 ESV / 21 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Through the middle of the street of the city; also, on either side of the river, the tree of life with its twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit each month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.

Hebrews 9:22 ESV / 21 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.

Matthew 12:15 ESV / 21 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Jesus, aware of this, withdrew from there. And many followed him, and he healed them all

Matthew 11:28 ESV / 21 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

Matthew 8:16-17 ESV / 21 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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.”

Revelation 21:8 ESV / 20 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

Matthew 18:11 ESV / 20 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 38:21 ESV / 20 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Now Isaiah had said, “Let them take a cake of figs and apply it to the boil, that he may recover.”

Isaiah 1:6 ESV / 20 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

From the sole of the foot even to the head, there is no soundness in it, but bruises and sores and raw wounds; they are not pressed out or bound up or softened with oil.

James 5:15 ESV / 19 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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.

Philippians 4:19 ESV / 19 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

Romans 9:2 ESV / 19 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

That I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart.

John 20:30-31 ESV / 19 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book; but these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.

John 14:6 ESV / 19 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

John 10:10 ESV / 19 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Luke 21:11 ESV / 19 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

There will be great earthquakes, and in various places famines and pestilences. And there will be terrors and great signs from heaven.

James 5:16 ESV / 18 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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.

Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 18 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

John 6:2 ESV / 18 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And a large crowd was following him, because they saw the signs that he was doing on the sick.

John 1:1 ESV / 18 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Mark 1:1-45 ESV / 18 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. As it is written in Isaiah the prophet, “Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way, the voice of one crying in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight,’” John appeared, baptizing in the wilderness and proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. And all the country of Judea and all Jerusalem were going out to him and were being baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins. ...

Luke 4:1-44 ESV / 17 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness for forty days, being tempted by the devil. And he ate nothing during those days. And when they were ended, he was hungry. The devil said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread.” And Jesus answered him, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone.’” And the devil took him up and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time, ...

Mark 5:35-43 ESV / 16 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

While he was still speaking, there came from the ruler's house some who said, “Your daughter is dead. Why trouble the Teacher any further?” But overhearing what they said, Jesus said to the ruler of the synagogue, “Do not fear, only believe.” And he allowed no one to follow him except Peter and James and John the brother of James. They came to the house of the ruler of the synagogue, and Jesus saw a commotion, people weeping and wailing loudly. And when he had entered, he said to them, “Why are you making a commotion and weeping? The child is not dead but sleeping.” ...

1 Timothy 1:15 ESV / 15 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the foremost.

1 Thessalonians 5:2 ESV / 15 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For you yourselves are fully aware that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.

Mark 7:31-37 ESV / 15 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Then he returned from the region of Tyre and went through Sidon to the Sea of Galilee, in the region of the Decapolis. And they brought to him a man who was deaf and had a speech impediment, and they begged him to lay his hand on him. And taking him aside from the crowd privately, he put his fingers into his ears, and after spitting touched his tongue. And looking up to heaven, he sighed and said to him, “Ephphatha,” that is, “Be opened.” And his ears were opened, his tongue was released, and he spoke plainly. ...

Matthew 9:27-31 ESV / 15 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And as Jesus passed on from there, two blind men followed him, crying aloud, “Have mercy on us, Son of David.” When he entered the house, the blind men came to him, and Jesus said to them, “Do you believe that I am able to do this?” They said to him, “Yes, Lord.” Then he touched their eyes, saying, “According to your faith be it done to you.” And their eyes were opened. And Jesus sternly warned them, “See that no one knows about it.” But they went away and spread his fame through all that district.

Psalm 107:20 ESV / 15 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

John 5:1-9 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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?” ...