Sickness
72 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
47 sections
- Christ Compassionate Those In
- Christ Healed by Imposition of Hands
- Christ Healed with a Touch
- Christ Healed with a Word
- Christ Healed: Being Present
- Christ Healed: Not Being Present
- Christ Healed: Through the Touch of his Garment
- Faith Required in Those Healed of, by Christ
- God: Abandons the Wicked To
- God: Comforts Saints In
- God: Exhibits his Love in Healing
- God: Exhibits his Mercy in Healing
- God: Exhibits his Power in Healing
- God: Heals
- God: Hears the Prayers of Those In
- God: Often Manifests Saving Grace to Sinners During
- God: Permits Saints to be Tried By
- God: Persecutes the Wicked By
- God: Preserves Saints in Time of
- God: Promises to Heal
- God: Strengthens Saints In
- God's Aid should be Sought In
- Healing of, Lawful on the Sabbath
- Illustrative of Sin
- Not Visiting Those In, an Evidence of not Belonging to Christ
- Often Brought on by Intemperance
- Often Incurable by Human Means
- Often Sent As a Punishment of Sin
- One of God's Four Sore Judgments on a Guilty Land
- Pray for Those Afflicted With
- Saints are Resigned Under
- Saints: Acknowledge That, Comes from God
- Saints: Ascribe Recovery From, to God
- Saints: Feel for Others In
- Saints: Mourn Under, with Prayer
- Saints: Praise God for Recovery From
- Saints: Pray for Recovery From
- Saints: Thank God Publicly for Recovery Form
- Saints: Visit Those In
- Sent by God
- The Apostles Were Endued with Power to Heal
- The Devil Sometimes Permitted to Inflict
- The Power of Healing: One of the Miraculous Gifts Bestowed on the Early Church
- The Wicked: Forsake Those In
- The Wicked: Have Much Sorrow, With
- The Wicked: Visit not Those In
- Visiting Those In, an Evidence of Belonging to Christ
Christ Compassionate Those In
- Isaiah 53:4 Surely He took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows; yet we considered Him stricken, struck down by God, and afflicted.
- Matthew 8:16–17 When evening came, many who were demon-possessed were brought to Jesus, and He drove out the spirits with a word and healed all the sick. …
Christ Healed by Imposition of Hands
- Mark 6:5 So He could not perform any miracles there, except to lay His hands on a few of the sick and heal them.
- Luke 13:13 Then He placed His hands on her, and immediately she straightened up and began to glorify God.
Christ Healed with a Touch
- Matthew 8:3 Jesus reached out His hand and touched the man. “I am willing,” He said. “Be clean!” And immediately his leprosy was cleansed.
Christ Healed with a Word
- Matthew 8:8 The centurion answered, “Lord, I am not worthy to have You come under my roof. But just say the word, and my servant will be healed.
- Matthew 8:13 Then Jesus said to the centurion, “Go! As you have believed, so will it be done for you.” And his servant was healed at that very hour.
Christ Healed: Being Present
- Mark 1:31 So He went to her, took her by the hand, and helped her up. The fever left her, and she began to serve them.
- Matthew 4:23 Jesus went throughout Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every disease and sickness among the people.
Christ Healed: Not Being Present
- Matthew 8:13 Then Jesus said to the centurion, “Go! As you have believed, so will it be done for you.” And his servant was healed at that very hour.
Christ Healed: Through the Touch of his Garment
- Matthew 14:35–36 And when the men of that place recognized Jesus, they sent word to all the surrounding region. People brought all the sick to Him …
- Mark 5:27–34 When the woman heard about Jesus, she came up through the crowd behind Him and touched His cloak. …
Faith Required in Those Healed of, by Christ
- Matthew 9:28–29 After Jesus had entered the house, the blind men came to Him. “Do you believe that I am able to do this?” He asked. “Yes, Lord,” they answered. …
- Mark 5:34 “Daughter,” said Jesus, “your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be free of your affliction.”
- Mark 10:52 “Go,” said Jesus, “your faith has healed you.” And immediately he received his sight and followed Jesus along the road.
God: Abandons the Wicked To
- Jeremiah 34:17 Therefore this is what the LORD says: You have not obeyed Me; you have not proclaimed freedom, each man for his brother and for his neighbor. So now I proclaim freedom for you, declares the LORD — freedom to fall by sword, by …
God: Comforts Saints In
- Psalm 41:3 The LORD will sustain him on his bed of illness and restore him from his bed of sickness.
God: Exhibits his Love in Healing
- Isaiah 38:17 Surely for my own welfare I had such great anguish; but Your love has delivered me from the pit of oblivion, for You have cast all my sins behind Your back.
God: Exhibits his Mercy in Healing
- Philippians 2:27 He was sick indeed, nearly unto death. But God had mercy on him, and not only on him but also on me, to spare me sorrow upon sorrow.
God: Exhibits his Power in Healing
- Luke 5:17 One day Jesus was teaching, and the Pharisees and teachers of the law were sitting there. People had come from Jerusalem and from every village of Galilee and Judea, and the power of the Lord was present for Him to heal the sick.
God: Heals
- Deuteronomy 32:39 See now that I am He; there is no God besides Me. I bring death and I give life; I wound and I heal, and there is no one who can deliver from My hand.
- Psalm 103:3 He who forgives all your iniquities and heals all your diseases,
- Isaiah 38:5 “Go and tell Hezekiah that this is what the LORD, the God of your father David, says: ‘I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add fifteen years to your life.
- Isaiah 38:9 This is a writing by Hezekiah king of Judah after his illness and recovery:
God: Hears the Prayers of Those In
- Psalm 30:2 O LORD my God, I cried to You for help, and You healed me.
- Psalm 107:18–20 They loathed all food and drew near to the gates of death. …
God: Often Manifests Saving Grace to Sinners During
- Job 33:19–24 A man is also chastened on his bed with pain and constant distress in his bones, …
- Psalm 107:17–21 Fools, in their rebellious ways, and through their iniquities, suffered affliction. …
God: Permits Saints to be Tried By
- Job 2:5–6 But stretch out Your hand and strike his flesh and bones, and he will surely curse You to Your face.” …
God: Persecutes the Wicked By
- Jeremiah 29:18 I will pursue them with sword and famine and plague. I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth— a curse, a desolation, and an object of scorn and reproach among all the nations to which I banish them.
God: Preserves Saints in Time of
- Psalm 91:3–7 Surely He will deliver you from the snare of the fowler, and from the deadly plague. …
God: Promises to Heal
- Exodus 23:25 So you shall serve the LORD your God, and He will bless your bread and your water. And I will take away sickness from among you.
- 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 …
God: Strengthens Saints In
- Psalm 41:3 The LORD will sustain him on his bed of illness and restore him from his bed of sickness.
God's Aid should be Sought In
- 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.
Healing of, Lawful on the Sabbath
- Luke 13:14–16 But the synagogue leader was indignant that Jesus had healed on the Sabbath. “There are six days for work,” he told the crowd. “So come and be healed on those days and not on the Sabbath.” …
Illustrative of Sin
- Leviticus 13:45–46 A diseased person must wear torn clothes and let his hair hang loose, and he must cover his mouth and cry out, ‘Unclean, unclean!’ …
- 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.
- 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.
Not Visiting Those In, an Evidence of not Belonging to Christ
- Matthew 25:43 I was a stranger and you did not take Me in, I was naked and you did not clothe Me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after Me.’
- Matthew 25:45 Then the King will answer, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for Me.’
Often Brought on by Intemperance
- Hosea 7:5 The princes are inflamed with wine on the day of our king; so he joins hands with those who mock him.
Often Incurable by Human Means
- 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.
- 2 Chronicles 21:18 After all this, the LORD afflicted Jehoram with an incurable disease of the bowels.
Often Sent As a Punishment of Sin
- Leviticus 26:14–16 If, however, you fail to obey Me and to carry out all these commandments, …
- 2 Chronicles 21:12–15 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, …
- 1 Corinthians 11:30 That is why many among you are weak and sick, and a number of you have fallen asleep.
One of God's Four Sore Judgments on a Guilty Land
- Ezekiel 14:19–21 Or if I send a plague into that land and pour out My wrath upon it through bloodshed, cutting off from it both man and beast, …
Pray for Those Afflicted With
- 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.
- James 5:14–15 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. …
Saints are Resigned Under
- Job 2:10 “You speak as a foolish woman speaks,” he told her. “Should we accept from God only good and not adversity?” In all this, Job did not sin in what he said.
Saints: Acknowledge That, Comes from God
- Psalm 31:1–8 In You, O LORD, I have taken refuge; let me never be put to shame; save me by Your righteousness. …
- Isaiah 38:12 My dwelling has been picked up and removed from me like a shepherd’s tent. I have rolled up my life like a weaver; He cuts me off from the loom; from day until night You make an end of me.
- Isaiah 38:15 What can I say? He has spoken to me, and He Himself has done this. I will walk slowly all my years because of the anguish of my soul.
Saints: Ascribe Recovery From, to God
- Isaiah 38:20 The LORD will save me; we will play songs on stringed instruments all the days of our lives in the house of the LORD.
Saints: Feel for Others In
- Psalm 35:13 Yet when they were ill, I put on sackcloth; I humbled myself with fasting, but my prayers returned unanswered.
Saints: Mourn Under, with Prayer
- Isaiah 38:14 I chirp like a swallow or crane; I moan like a dove. My eyes grow weak as I look upward. O Lord, I am oppressed; be my security.”
Saints: Praise God for Recovery From
- Psalm 103:1–3 Bless the LORD, O my soul; all that is within me, bless His holy name. …
- Isaiah 38:19 The living, only the living, can thank You, as I do today; fathers will tell their children about Your faithfulness.
- Luke 17:15 When one of them saw that he was healed, he came back, praising God in a loud voice.
Saints: Pray for Recovery From
- Isaiah 38:2–3 Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the LORD, …
Saints: Thank God Publicly for Recovery Form
- Isaiah 38:20 The LORD will save me; we will play songs on stringed instruments all the days of our lives in the house of the LORD.
- Acts 3:8 He sprang to his feet and began to walk. Then he went with them into the temple courts, walking and leaping and praising God.
Saints: Visit Those In
- Matthew 25:36 I was naked and you clothed Me, I was sick and you looked after Me, I was in prison and you visited Me.’
Sent by God
- Deuteronomy 28:59–61 He will bring upon you and your descendants extraordinary disasters, severe and lasting plagues, and terrible and chronic sicknesses. …
- Deuteronomy 32:39 See now that I am He; there is no God besides Me. I bring death and I give life; I wound and I heal, and there is no one who can deliver from My hand.
- 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.
- 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.
The Apostles Were Endued with Power to Heal
- Matthew 10:1 And calling His twelve disciples to Him, Jesus gave them authority over unclean spirits, so that they could drive them out and heal every disease and sickness.
- Mark 16:18 they will pick up snakes with their hands, and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not harm them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will be made well.”
- Mark 16:20 And they went out and preached everywhere, and the Lord worked through them, confirming His word by the signs that accompanied it.
The Devil Sometimes Permitted to Inflict
- Job 2:6–7 “Very well,” said the LORD to Satan. “He is in your hands, but you must spare his life.” …
- Luke 9:39 A spirit keeps seizing him, and he screams abruptly. It throws him into convulsions so that he foams at the mouth. It keeps mauling him and rarely departs from him.
- 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?”
The Power of Healing: One of the Miraculous Gifts Bestowed on the Early Church
- 1 Corinthians 12:9 to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by that one Spirit,
- 1 Corinthians 12:30 Do all have gifts of healing? Do all speak in tongues? Do all interpret?
- James 5:14–15 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. …
The Wicked: Forsake Those In
- 1 Samuel 30:13 Then David asked him, “To whom do you belong, and where are you from?” “I am an Egyptian,” he replied, “the slave of an Amalekite. My master abandoned me three days ago when I fell ill.
The Wicked: Have Much Sorrow, With
- Ecclesiastes 5:17 Moreover, all his days he eats in darkness, with much sorrow, sickness, and anger.
The Wicked: Visit not Those In
- Matthew 25:43 I was a stranger and you did not take Me in, I was naked and you did not clothe Me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after Me.’
Visiting Those In, an Evidence of Belonging to Christ
- Matthew 25:34 Then the King will say to those on His right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.
- Matthew 25:36 I was naked and you clothed Me, I was sick and you looked after Me, I was in prison and you visited Me.’
- Matthew 25:40 And the King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of Mine, you did for Me.’
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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.