Bible Verses About Healing from Sickness

Is any sick among you? 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 shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.

The instruction is communal — bring the sick person into community, into prayer. Illness is not meant to be faced alone.

The Lord will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness.

The bed of languishing — scripture names the long, exhausting sickness. God strengthens there, in it, not only after it.

For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the Lord; because they called thee an Outcast, saying, This is Zion, whom no man seeketh after.

A direct promise — spoken to a people in a specific situation, and echoed across all of scripture as God's character.

And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

Paul prayed three times for his illness to be removed. The answer was not healing — it was this. Sufficient grace, even in the weakness.

For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.

The suffering is real. And it is not the end of the story. Both are true at the same time.