Diseases
79 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
52 sections
- Abscess
- Ague
- Art of Curing, Defective
- Atrophy
- Blindness
- Boils and Blains
- Children Subject To
- Consumption
- Deafness
- Debility
- Demoniacal Possession
- Dropsy
- Dumbness
- Dysentery
- Emerods
- Fever
- Frequently: Complicated
- Frequently: Incurable
- Frequently: Loathsome
- Frequently: Painful
- Frequently: Tedious
- God often Entreated to Cure
- Illustrative of Sin
- Impediment Speech
- Inflammation
- Intemperance a Cause of
- Issue of Blood
- Itch
- Lameness
- Leprosy
- Loss of Appetite
- Lunacy
- Medicine Used for Curing
- Melancholy
- Not Looking to God In, Condemned
- Often Brought from Other Countries
- Often Sent As Punishment
- Often Through Satan
- Over-Excitement a Cause of
- Palsy
- Physicians Undertook the Cure of
- Plague
- Regarded As Visitations
- Scab
- Sins of Youth a Cause of
- Sunstroke
- Those Afflicted With: Anointed
- Those Afflicted With: Often Divinely Cured
- Those Afflicted With: Often Divinely Supported
- Those Afflicted With: Often Laid in the Streets to Receive Advice from Passers By
- Ulcers
- Worms
Abscess
- 2 Kings 20:7 Then Isaiah said, “Prepare a poultice of figs.” So they brought it and applied it to the boil, and Hezekiah recovered.
Ague
- Leviticus 26:16 then this is what I will do to you: I will bring upon you sudden terror, wasting disease, and fever that will destroy your sight and drain your life. You will sow your seed in vain, because your enemies will eat it.
Art of Curing, Defective
Atrophy
Blindness
- Job 29:15 I served as eyes to the blind and as feet to the lame.
- Matthew 9:27 As Jesus went on from there, two blind men followed Him, crying out, “Have mercy on us, Son of David!”
Boils and Blains
- Exodus 9:10 So they took soot from the furnace and stood before Pharaoh. Moses tossed it into the air, and festering boils broke out on man and beast.
Children Subject To
- 2 Samuel 12:15 After Nathan had gone home, the LORD struck the child that Uriah’s wife had borne to David, and he became ill.
- 1 Kings 17:17 Later, the son of the woman who owned the house became ill, and his sickness grew worse and worse, until no breath remained in him.
Consumption
- Leviticus 26:16 then this is what I will do to you: I will bring upon you sudden terror, wasting disease, and fever that will destroy your sight and drain your life. You will sow your seed in vain, because your enemies will eat it.
- Deuteronomy 28:22 The LORD will strike you with wasting disease, with fever and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought, and with blight and mildew; these will pursue you until you perish.
Deafness
- Psalm 38:13 But like a deaf man, I do not hear; and like a mute man, I do not open my mouth.
- Mark 7:32 Some people brought to Him a man who was deaf and hardly able to speak, and they begged Jesus to place His hand on him.
Debility
- Psalm 102:23 He has broken my strength on the way; He has cut short my days.
- Ezekiel 7:17 Every hand will go limp, and every knee will turn to water.
Demoniacal Possession
- Matthew 15:22 And a Canaanite woman from that region came to Him, crying out, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on me! My daughter is miserably possessed by a demon.”
- Mark 5:15 When they came to Jesus, they saw the man who had been possessed by the legion of demons sitting there, clothed and in his right mind; and they were afraid.
Dropsy
- Luke 14:2 Right there before Him was a man with dropsy.
Dumbness
- Proverbs 31:8 Open your mouth for those with no voice, for the cause of all the dispossessed.
- Matthew 9:32 As they were leaving, a demon-possessed man who was mute was brought to Jesus.
Dysentery
- 2 Chronicles 21:12–19 Then a letter came to Jehoram from Elijah the prophet, which stated: “This is what the LORD, the God of your father David, says: ‘You have not walked in the ways of your father Jehoshaphat or of Asa king of Judah, …
- Acts 28:8 The father of Publius was sick in bed, suffering from fever and dysentery. Paul went in to see him, and after praying and placing his hands on him, he healed the man.
Emerods
- Deuteronomy 28:27 The LORD will afflict you with the boils of Egypt, with tumors and scabs and itch from which you cannot be cured.
- 1 Samuel 5:6 Now the hand of the LORD was heavy on the people of Ashdod and its vicinity, ravaging them and afflicting them with tumors.
- 1 Samuel 5:12 Those who did not die were afflicted with tumors, and the outcry of the city went up to heaven.
Fever
- Deuteronomy 28:22 The LORD will strike you with wasting disease, with fever and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought, and with blight and mildew; these will pursue you until you perish.
- Matthew 8:14 When Jesus arrived at Peter’s house, He saw Peter’s mother-in-law sick in bed with a fever.
Frequently: Complicated
- Deuteronomy 28:60–61 He will afflict you again with all the diseases you dreaded in Egypt, and they will cling to you. …
- Acts 28:8 The father of Publius was sick in bed, suffering from fever and dysentery. Paul went in to see him, and after praying and placing his hands on him, he healed the man.
Frequently: Incurable
- 2 Chronicles 21:18 After all this, the LORD afflicted Jehoram with an incurable disease of the bowels.
- Jeremiah 14:19 Have You rejected Judah completely? Do You despise Zion? Why have You stricken us so that we are beyond healing? We hoped for peace, but no good has come, and for the time of healing, but there was only terror.
Frequently: Loathsome
- Psalm 38:7 For my loins are full of burning pain, and no soundness remains in my body.
- Psalm 41:8 “A vile disease has been poured into him; he will never get up from where he lies!”
Frequently: Painful
- 2 Chronicles 21:15 And day after day you yourself will suffer from a severe illness, a disease of your bowels, until it causes your bowels to come out.’”
- Job 33:19 A man is also chastened on his bed with pain and constant distress in his bones,
Frequently: Tedious
- Deuteronomy 28:59 He will bring upon you and your descendants extraordinary disasters, severe and lasting plagues, and terrible and chronic sicknesses.
- John 5:5 One man there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.
- Luke 13:16 Then should not this daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has kept bound for eighteen long years, be released from her bondage on the Sabbath day?”
God often Entreated to Cure
- 2 Samuel 12:16 David pleaded with God for the boy. He fasted and went into his house and spent the night lying in sackcloth on the ground.
- 2 Kings 20:1–3 In those days Hezekiah became mortally ill. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz came to him and said, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Put your house in order, for you are about to die; you will not recover.’” …
- Psalm 6:2 Be merciful to me, O LORD, for I am frail; heal me, O LORD, for my bones are in agony.
- James 5:14 Is any one of you sick? He should call the elders of the church to pray over him and anoint him with oil in the name of the Lord.
Illustrative of Sin
- Isaiah 1:5 Why do you want more beatings? Why do you keep rebelling? Your head has a massive wound, and your whole heart is afflicted.
Impediment Speech
- Mark 7:32 Some people brought to Him a man who was deaf and hardly able to speak, and they begged Jesus to place His hand on him.
Inflammation
- Deuteronomy 28:22 The LORD will strike you with wasting disease, with fever and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought, and with blight and mildew; these will pursue you until you perish.
Intemperance a Cause of
- Hosea 7:5 The princes are inflamed with wine on the day of our king; so he joins hands with those who mock him.
Issue of Blood
- Matthew 9:20 Suddenly a woman who had suffered from bleeding for twelve years came up behind Him and touched the fringe of His cloak.
Itch
- Deuteronomy 28:27 The LORD will afflict you with the boils of Egypt, with tumors and scabs and itch from which you cannot be cured.
Lameness
- 2 Samuel 4:4 And Jonathan son of Saul had a son who was lame in his feet. He was five years old when the report about Saul and Jonathan came from Jezreel. His nurse picked him up and fled, but as she was hurrying to escape, he fell and became …
- 2 Chronicles 16:12 In the thirty-ninth year of his reign, Asa became diseased in his feet, and his disease became increasingly severe. Yet even in his illness he did not seek the LORD, but only the physicians.
Leprosy
- Leviticus 13:2 “When someone has a swelling or rash or bright spot on his skin that may be an infectious skin disease, he must be brought to Aaron the priest or to one of his sons who is a priest.
- 2 Kings 5:1 Now Naaman, the commander of the army of the king of Aram, was a great man in his master’s sight and highly regarded, for through him the LORD had given victory to Aram. And he was a mighty man of valor, but he was a leper.
Loss of Appetite
- Job 33:20 so that he detests his bread, and his soul loathes his favorite food.
- Psalm 107:18 They loathed all food and drew near to the gates of death.
Lunacy
- Matthew 4:24 News about Him spread all over Syria, and people brought to Him all who were ill with various diseases, those suffering acute pain, the demon-possessed, those having seizures, and the paralyzed, and He healed them.
- Matthew 17:15 “Lord, have mercy on my son,” he said. “He has seizures and is suffering terribly. He often falls into the fire or into the water.
Medicine Used for Curing
- Proverbs 17:22 A joyful heart is good medicine, but a broken spirit dries up the bones.
- Isaiah 1:6 From the sole of your foot to the top of your head, there is no soundness— only wounds and welts and festering sores neither cleansed nor bandaged nor soothed with oil.
Melancholy
- 1 Samuel 16:14 Now the Spirit of the LORD departed from Saul, and a spirit of distress from the LORD began to torment him.
Not Looking to God In, Condemned
- 2 Chronicles 16:12 In the thirty-ninth year of his reign, Asa became diseased in his feet, and his disease became increasingly severe. Yet even in his illness he did not seek the LORD, but only the physicians.
Often Brought from Other Countries
- Deuteronomy 7:15 And the LORD will remove from you all sickness. He will not lay upon you any of the terrible diseases you knew in Egypt, but He will inflict them on all who hate you.
Often Sent As Punishment
- Deuteronomy 28:21 The LORD will make the plague cling to you until He has exterminated you from the land that you are entering to possess.
- John 5:14 Afterward, Jesus found the man at the temple and said to him, “See, you have been made well. Stop sinning, or something worse may happen to you.”
Often Through Satan
- 1 Samuel 16:14–16 Now the Spirit of the LORD departed from Saul, and a spirit of distress from the LORD began to torment him. …
- Job 2:7 So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD and infected Job with terrible boils from the soles of his feet to the crown of his head.
Over-Excitement a Cause of
- Daniel 8:27 I, Daniel, was exhausted and lay ill for days. Then I got up and went about the king’s business. I was confounded by the vision; it was beyond understanding.
Palsy
- Matthew 8:6 “Lord, my servant lies at home, paralyzed and in terrible agony.”
- Matthew 9:2 Just then some men brought to Him a paralytic lying on a mat. When Jesus saw their faith, He said to the paralytic, “Take courage, son; your sins are forgiven.”
Physicians Undertook the Cure of
- Jeremiah 8:22 Is there no balm in Gilead? Is no physician there? Why then has the health of the daughter of my people not been restored?
- Matthew 9:12 On hearing this, Jesus said, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick.
- Luke 4:23 Jesus said to them, “Surely you will quote this proverb to Me: ‘Physician, heal yourself! Do here in Your hometown what we have heard that You did in Capernaum.’”
Plague
- Numbers 11:33 But while the meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, the anger of the LORD burned against the people, and the LORD struck them with a severe plague.
- 2 Samuel 24:15 So the LORD sent a plague upon Israel from that morning until the appointed time, and seventy thousand of the people from Dan to Beersheba died.
- 2 Samuel 24:21 “Why has my lord the king come to his servant?” Araunah said. “To buy your threshing floor,” David replied, “that I may build an altar to the LORD, so that the plague upon the people may be halted.”
- 2 Samuel 24:25 And there he built an altar to the LORD and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. Then the LORD answered the prayers on behalf of the land, and the plague upon Israel was halted.
Regarded As Visitations
- Job 2:7–10 So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD and infected Job with terrible boils from the soles of his feet to the crown of his head. …
- Psalm 38:2 For Your arrows have pierced me deeply, and Your hand has pressed down on me.
- Psalm 38:7 For my loins are full of burning pain, and no soundness remains in my body.
Scab
- Deuteronomy 28:27 The LORD will afflict you with the boils of Egypt, with tumors and scabs and itch from which you cannot be cured.
Sins of Youth a Cause of
- Job 20:11 The youthful vigor that fills his bones will lie down with him in the dust.
Sunstroke
- 2 Kings 4:18–20 And the child grew, and one day he went out to his father, who was with the harvesters. …
- Isaiah 49:10 They will not hunger or thirst, nor will scorching heat or sun beat down on them. For He who has compassion on them will guide them and lead them beside springs of water.
Those Afflicted With: Anointed
- Mark 6:13 They also drove out many demons and healed many of the sick, anointing them with oil.
- James 5:14 Is any one of you sick? He should call the elders of the church to pray over him and anoint him with oil in the name of the Lord.
Those Afflicted With: Often Divinely Cured
- 2 Kings 20:5 “Go back and tell Hezekiah the leader of My people that this is what the LORD, the God of your father David, says: ‘I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. I will surely heal you. On the third day from now you will go …
- James 5:15 And the prayer offered in faith will restore the one who is sick. The Lord will raise him up. If he has sinned, he will be forgiven.
Those Afflicted With: Often Divinely Supported
- Psalm 41:3 The LORD will sustain him on his bed of illness and restore him from his bed of sickness.
Those Afflicted With: Often Laid in the Streets to Receive Advice from Passers By
- Mark 6:56 And wherever He went — villages and towns and countrysides — they laid the sick in the marketplaces and begged Him just to let them touch the fringe of His cloak. And all who touched Him were healed.
- Acts 5:15 As a result, people brought the sick into the streets and laid them on cots and mats, so that at least Peter’s shadow might fall on some of them as he passed by.
Ulcers
- Isaiah 1:6 From the sole of your foot to the top of your head, there is no soundness— only wounds and welts and festering sores neither cleansed nor bandaged nor soothed with oil.
- Luke 16:20 And a beggar named Lazarus lay at his gate, covered with sores
Worms
- Acts 12:23 Immediately, because Herod did not give glory to God, an angel of the Lord struck him down, and he was eaten by worms and died.
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Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.