Bible Verses for Healing & Recovery
World English Bible
Whether you are facing physical illness, emotional wounds, or spiritual brokenness, the Bible is full of hope for healing. God is described throughout Scripture as Jehovah Rapha โ "the God who heals." Jesus spent much of his ministry healing the sick, the blind, and the broken.
These Bible verses for healing span both the miraculous and the gradual โ the sudden restoration and the slow, painful recovery. They invite faith, persistence in prayer, and the trust that God's healing purposes are at work even when we cannot see them.
โDon't you be afraid, for I am with you. Don't be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.โ
โLove never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with.โ
โConfess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.โ
โWhen I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things.โ
โBut now faith, hope, and love remain--these three. The greatest of these is love.โ
โFor now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.โ
โbut when that which is complete has come, then that which is partial will be done away with.โ
โFor we know in part, and we prophesy in part;โ
โTherefore, put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and, having done all, to stand.โ
โHe has said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.โ
โHe heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.โ
โHaving gifts differing according to the grace that was given to us, if prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of our faith;โ
โWithout faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.โ
โAs each has received a gift, employ it in serving one another, as good managers of the grace of God in its various forms.โ
โLet all things be done decently and in order.โ
โJesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.โ
โBeloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be healthy, even as your soul prospers.โ
โwho his own self bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.โ
โIs 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,โ
โSo faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.โ
โA cheerful heart makes good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.โ
โif my people, who are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.โ
โlet your wives keep silent in the assemblies, for it has not been permitted for them to speak; but let them be in subjection, as the law also says.โ
โand the prayer of faith will heal him who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. If he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.โ
โfor God is not a God of confusion, but of peace. As in all the assemblies of the saints,โ
โBut he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought our peace was on him; and by his wounds we are healed.โ
โPraise Yahweh, my soul, and don't forget all his benefits;โ
โIf they desire to learn anything, let them ask their own husbands at home, for it is shameful for a woman to chatter in the assembly.โ
โwho forgives all your sins; who heals all your diseases;โ
โWhat is it then, brothers? When you come together, each one of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a revelation, has another language, has an interpretation. Let all things be done to build each other up.โ
