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Bible verses about healing
Bible verses about healing
The Ultimate Collection: 150 Bible Verses for Healing, Restoration, and Strength
As believers, we know that God is Jehovah Rapha—the God who heals. Whether you are seeking physical recovery, emotional restoration, or spiritual renewal, the Word of God is a medicine that brings life. Below is a curated collection of 150 powerful scriptures to meditate on, pray over, and stand upon during seasons of sickness and pain.
I. God’s Promises of Physical Healing & Health
Foundational verses establishing God’s nature as the Healer.
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Exodus 15:26 – “I am the Lord who heals you.”
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Exodus 23:25 – “So you shall serve the Lord your God, and He will bless your bread and your water. And I will take sickness away from the midst of you.”
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Deuteronomy 7:15 – “And the Lord will take away from you all sickness.”
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Psalm 103:2-3 – “Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all His benefits: Who forgives all your iniquities, Who heals all your diseases.”
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Psalm 107:20 – “He sent His word and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.”
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Psalm 118:17 – “I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the Lord.”
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Proverbs 3:7-8 – “Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord and depart from evil. It will be health to your flesh and strength to your bones.”
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Proverbs 4:20-22 – “My son, give attention to my words… For they are life to those who find them, and health to all their flesh.”
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Isaiah 53:4 – “Surely He has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows.”
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Isaiah 53:5 – “But He was wounded for our transgressions… and by His stripes we are healed.”
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Isaiah 58:8 – “Then your light shall break forth like the morning, your healing shall spring forth speedily.”
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Jeremiah 17:14 – “Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved, for You are my praise.”
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Jeremiah 30:17 – “For I will restore health to you and heal you of your wounds,’ says the Lord.”
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Jeremiah 33:6 – “Behold, I will bring it health and healing; I will heal them and reveal to them the abundance of peace and truth.”
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Malachi 4:2 – “But to you who fear My name The Sun of Righteousness shall arise with healing in His wings.”
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Matthew 8:17 – “He Himself took our infirmities and bore our sicknesses.”
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1 Peter 2:24 – “Who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree… by whose stripes you were healed.”
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3 John 1:2 – “Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers.”
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Psalm 30:2 – “O Lord my God, I cried out to You, and You healed me.”
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Psalm 41:3 – “The Lord will strengthen him on his bed of illness; You will sustain him on his sickbed.”
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Psalm 91:3 – “Surely He shall deliver you… from the perilous pestilence.”
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Psalm 91:10 – “No evil shall befall you, nor shall any plague come near your dwelling.”
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Psalm 146:8 – “The Lord opens the eyes of the blind; The Lord raises those who are bowed down.”
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Isaiah 38:16 – “O Lord… You will restore me and make me live.”
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Isaiah 40:29 – “He gives power to the weak, and to those who have no might He increases strength.”
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Isaiah 40:31 – “But those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength.”
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Isaiah 41:10 – “Fear not, for I am with you… I will strengthen you, yes, I will help you.”
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Nahum 1:9 – “Affliction will not rise up a second time.”
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Matthew 4:23 – “And Jesus went about all Galilee… healing all kinds of sickness and all kinds of disease among the people.”
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Matthew 9:35 – “Jesus went about all the cities and villages… healing every sickness and every disease.”
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Matthew 14:14 – “And when Jesus went out He saw a great multitude; and He was moved with compassion for them, and healed their sick.”
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Luke 6:19 – “And the whole multitude sought to touch Him, for power went out from Him and healed them all.”
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Luke 9:11 – “He received them and spoke to them about the kingdom of God, and healed those who had need of healing.”
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Acts 10:38 – “God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil.”
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Romans 8:11 – “He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.”
II. Emotional Healing & Brokenness
Verses for the healing of the heart, mind, and spirit.
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Psalm 23:3 – “He restores my soul.”
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Psalm 34:18 – “The Lord is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves such as have a contrite spirit.”
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Psalm 147:3 – “He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.”
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Isaiah 61:1 – “He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives.”
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Matthew 11:28 – “Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.”
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John 14:27 – “Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you… Let not your heart be troubled.”
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Philippians 4:7 – “And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds.”
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2 Timothy 1:7 – “For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.”
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1 Peter 5:7 – “Casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you.”
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Psalm 42:11 – “Why are you cast down, O my soul? … Hope in God, for I shall yet praise Him, the help of my countenance and my God.”
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Psalm 94:19 – “In the multitude of my anxieties within me, Your comforts delight my soul.”
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Psalm 55:22 – “Cast your burden on the Lord, and He shall sustain you.”
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Proverbs 17:22 – “A merry heart does good, like medicine, but a broken spirit dries the bones.”
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Isaiah 26:3 – “You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on You.”
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Isaiah 43:2 – “When you pass through the waters, I will be with you.”
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Lamentations 3:31-33 – “For the Lord will not cast off forever. Though He causes grief, yet He will show compassion.”
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Ezekiel 34:16 – “I will seek what was lost and bring back what was driven away, bind up the broken and strengthen what was sick.”
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Hosea 6:1 – “Come, and let us return to the Lord; For He has torn, but He will heal us; He has stricken, but He will bind us up.”
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Joel 2:25 – “So I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten.”
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Zephaniah 3:17 – “The Lord your God in your midst, The Mighty One, will save… He will quiet you with His love.”
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2 Corinthians 1:3-4 – “The God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our tribulation.”
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Revelation 21:4 – “And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying.”
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Psalm 119:50 – “This is my comfort in my affliction, for Your word has given me life.”
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Psalm 119:165 – “Great peace have those who love Your law, and nothing causes them to stumble.”
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Psalm 27:13 – “I would have lost heart, unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.”
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Psalm 30:5 – “Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning.”
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Psalm 126:5 – “Those who sow in tears shall reap in joy.”
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Isaiah 35:4 – “Say to those who are fearful-hearted, ‘Be strong, do not fear!'”
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Isaiah 41:13 – “For I, the Lord your God, will hold your right hand, saying to you, ‘Fear not, I will help you.’”
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Isaiah 54:10 – “For the mountains shall depart… but My kindness shall not depart from you.”
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Romans 15:13 – “Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing.”
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Hebrews 4:16 – “Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.”
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Psalm 28:7 – “The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in Him, and I am helped.”
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Psalm 73:26 – “My flesh and my heart fail; but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.”
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Psalm 138:3 – “In the day when I cried out, You answered me, and made me bold with strength in my soul.”
III. The Power of Faith & Prayer in Healing
Scriptures highlighting the role of the believer’s faith and authority.
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James 5:15 – “And the prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up.”
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James 5:16 – “Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed.”
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Mark 11:24 – “Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them.”
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Mark 5:34 – “Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace, and be healed of your affliction.”
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Mark 9:23 – “Jesus said to him, ‘If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes.'”
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Mark 16:17-18 – “They will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.”
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Matthew 8:13 – “Go your way; and as you have believed, so let it be done for you.”
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Matthew 9:22 – “Be of good cheer, daughter; your faith has made you well.”
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Matthew 9:29 – “According to your faith let it be to you.”
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Matthew 15:28 – “O woman, great is your faith! Let it be to you as you desire.”
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Matthew 21:22 – “And whatever things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.”
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Luke 8:48 – “Daughter, be of good cheer; your faith has made you well. Go in peace.”
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Luke 17:19 – “Arise, go your way. Your faith has made you well.”
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Luke 18:42 – “Receive your sight; your faith has made you well.”
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Acts 3:16 – “And His name, through faith in His name, has made this man strong.”
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Acts 14:9-10 – “Paul, observing him… and seeing that he had faith to be healed, said… ‘Stand up straight on your feet!'”
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Romans 10:17 – “So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.”
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Hebrews 11:1 – “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.”
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Hebrews 11:6 – “But without faith it is impossible to please Him.”
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1 John 5:14-15 – “Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us.”
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John 15:7 – “If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you.”
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John 14:13-14 – “And whatever you ask in My name, that I will do… If you ask anything in My name, I will do it.”
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Psalm 116:10 – “I believed, therefore I spoke.”
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2 Corinthians 4:13 – “We also believe and therefore speak.”
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Galatians 3:5 – “Therefore He who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you, does He do it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?”
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Proverbs 18:21 – “Death and life are in the power of the tongue.”
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Isaiah 55:11 – “So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; It shall not return to Me void.”
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Psalm 107:19 – “Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble, and He saved them out of their distresses.”
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Psalm 34:17 – “The righteous cry out, and the Lord hears, and delivers them out of all their troubles.”
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Psalm 145:18 – “The Lord is near to all who call upon Him.”
IV. Miracles & Stories of Healing
Biblical accounts of God’s healing power in action.
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Genesis 20:17 – “So Abraham prayed to God; and God healed Abimelech.”
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Numbers 12:13 – “So Moses cried out to the Lord, saying, ‘Please heal her, O God, I pray!'” (Healing of Miriam).
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Numbers 21:8 – “Make a fiery serpent, and set it on a pole; and it shall be that everyone who is bitten, when he looks at it, shall live.”
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2 Kings 5:14 – “So he [Naaman] went down and dipped seven times in the Jordan… and his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child.”
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2 Kings 20:5 – “I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; surely I will heal you.” (Hezekiah).
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Job 42:10 – “And the Lord restored Job’s losses when he prayed for his friends.”
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Psalm 105:37 – “He also brought them out with silver and gold, and there was none feeble among His tribes.”
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Matthew 8:3 – “Then Jesus put out His hand and touched him, saying, ‘I am willing; be cleansed.’ Immediately his leprosy was cleansed.”
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Matthew 8:15 – “He touched her hand, and the fever left her.”
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Matthew 12:13 – “Then He said to the man, ‘Stretch out your hand.’ And he stretched it out, and it was restored as whole as the other.”
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Matthew 15:30 – “Then great multitudes came to Him, having with them the lame, blind, mute, maimed… and He healed them.”
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Matthew 20:34 – “So Jesus had compassion and touched their eyes. And immediately their eyes received sight.”
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Mark 1:34 – “Then He healed many who were sick with various diseases, and cast out many demons.”
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Mark 7:34-35 – “He said to him, ‘Ephphatha,’ that is, ‘Be opened.’ Immediately his ears were opened.”
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Mark 10:52 – “Immediately he received his sight and followed Jesus on the road.”
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Luke 5:17 – “And the power of the Lord was present to heal them.”
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Luke 7:10 – “And those who were sent, returning to the house, found the servant well who had been sick.”
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Luke 8:44 – “Came from behind and touched the border of His garment. And immediately her flow of blood stopped.”
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Luke 13:13 – “And He laid His hands on her, and immediately she was made straight, and glorified God.”
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Luke 14:4 – “He took him and healed him, and let him go.”
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Luke 17:14 – “And so it was that as they went, they were cleansed.”
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Luke 22:51 – “And He touched his ear and healed him.”
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John 4:50 – “Jesus said to him, ‘Go your way; your son lives.’ So the man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him.”
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John 5:8-9 – “Jesus said to him, ‘Rise, take up your bed and walk.’ And immediately the man was made well.”
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John 9:6-7 – “He anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay… and he went and washed, and came back seeing.”
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Acts 5:16 – “Also a multitude gathered from the surrounding cities… bringing sick people… and they were all healed.”
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Acts 8:7 – “For unclean spirits… came out of many… and many who were paralyzed and lame were healed.”
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Acts 9:34 – “And Peter said to him, ‘Aeneas, Jesus the Christ heals you. Arise and make your bed.’ Then he arose immediately.”
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Acts 28:8 – “Paul went in to him and prayed, and he laid his hands on him and healed him.”
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Acts 19:11-12 – “Now God worked unusual miracles by the hands of Paul… so that… diseases left them.”
V. Spiritual Restoration & Eternal Healing
The ultimate healing of the soul and the promise of heaven.
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2 Chronicles 30:20 – “And the Lord listened to Hezekiah and healed the people.”
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Psalm 6:2 – “Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am weak; O Lord, heal me, for my bones are troubled.”
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Psalm 103:4 – “Who redeems your life from destruction.”
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Psalm 119:107 – “I am afflicted very much; Revive me, O Lord, according to Your word.”
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Psalm 119:93 – “I will never forget Your precepts, For by them You have given me life.”
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Isaiah 6:10 – “Understand with their hearts, and return and be healed.”
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Isaiah 19:22 – “They will return to the Lord, and He will be entreated by them and heal them.”
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Isaiah 57:18 – “I have seen his ways, and will heal him; I will also lead him.”
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Isaiah 57:19 – “‘Peace, peace to him who is far off and to him who is near,’ Says the Lord, ‘And I will heal him.'”
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Lamentations 5:21 – “Turn us back to You, O Lord, and we will be restored; Renew our days as of old.”
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Hosea 14:4 – “I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely.”
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Hebrews 12:13 – “Make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.”
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1 Thessalonians 5:23 – “Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely; and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless.”
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1 Peter 5:10 – “May the God of all grace… perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.”
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Revelation 22:2 – “The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.”
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Psalm 23:4 – “Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; For You are with me.”
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Romans 8:18 – “For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.”
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2 Corinthians 4:16 – “Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day.”
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2 Corinthians 5:17 – “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.”
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Revelation 21:5 – “Then He who sat on the throne said, ‘Behold, I make all things new.'”

