44 Bible Verses for Healing and Why God Calls Himself Jehovah-Rapha

Do you need healing? Or do you know someone who does? Do you need some Bible Verses for Healing?

God has many names for Himself in the Bible, and each one was given at a time when His people needed to hear it. And if you're looking for Bible verses for healing, maybe you need to hear from Jehovah-Rapha.

Jehovah-Rapha has the power to heal you. Physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually.

And His Son Jesus came as a healer.  He didn't come to build an ark like Noah, or to build a temple like Solomon, or as a warrior like David. Not for the healthy, but for those who needed a Great Physician.

What is the meaning of Jehovah Rapha?

The Jewish people would have known immediately what God was calling Himself. God introduces Himself yet again to His people with a new name... the God who heals.

The God who heals had done just that. He delivered the Jewish people from the hands of their enslavers after the crossing of the Red Sea. That's when He revealed His new name to them in Exodus 15:26: “for I am the Lord, your healer”

It's God's desire to heal us and for our relationship with Him to be fully restored. Our sin separates. Separates us from Him as well as from others. Our sin gets us in so much trouble but God waits patiently for us to realize we need healing.

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The kind of faith that's sometimes uncomfortable.

When Jesus came to earth, He acted as Jehovah-Rapha in the flesh... healing countless people every day. Jesus healed once He saw incredible faith, or in some cases He asked the person to complete a task that would prove their faith.

Let’s open up our hearts to Him, read 44 Bible Verses on Healing and pray for healing with obedience.

God the Father heals Israel in the Old Testament
Old Testament Bible Verses on Healing

He said, “If you will diligently listen to the voice of the Lord your God, and do that which is right in his eyes, and give ear to his commandments and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you that I put on the Egyptians, for I am the Lord, your Healer.”
-Exodus 15:26

Worship the LORD your God, and His blessing will be on your food and water. I will take away sickness from among you.
-Exodus 23:25

The Lord will keep you free from every disease. He will not inflict on you the horrible diseases you knew in Egypt.
-Deuteronomy 7:15

For the LORD protects the bones of the righteous; not one of them is broken!
-Psalm 34:20

He sent out His word and healed them, and delivered them from their destruction.
-Psalm 107:20

‘I have seen what they do, but I will heal them anyway! I will lead them and comfort those who mourn, bringing words of praise to their lips. May they have abundant peace, both near and far,' says the Lord, who heals them.
-Isaiah 57: 18-19

Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved, for You are my praise.
-Jeremiah 17:14

For I will restore health to you, and your wounds I will heal, declares the Lord.
- Jeremiah 30:17

Behold, I will bring to it health and healing, and I will heal them and reveal to them abundance of prosperity and security.
- Jeremiah 33:6

God has the power of death and life in His hands.

And the Lord will strike Egypt, striking and healing, and they will return to the Lord, and He will listen to their pleas for mercy and heal them.
- Isaiah 19:22

“See now that I, even I, am He, and there is no god beside Me; I kill and I make alive; I wound and I heal; and there is none that can deliver out of My hand.
-Deuteronomy 32:39

Lord, your discipline is good, for it leads to life and health. You restore my health and allow me to live!
-Isaiah 38:16

For He wounds, but also binds; He strikes, but His hands also heal.
-Job 5:18

Bible verses for healing:
God the Father promises spiritual healing for Israel through the fulfilled prophecy of Jesus Christ.

But He was pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on Him, and by His wounds we are healed.
- Isaiah 53:5

If My people who are called by My name humble themselves, and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.
-2 Chronicles 7:14

Scriptural Prayers for Healing in the Bible

Have compassion on me, LORD, for I am weak. Heal me, LORD, for my bones are in agony.
-Psalm 6:2

As for me, I said, “O Lord, be gracious to me; heal me, for I have sinned against you!”
- Psalm 41:4

Praise the Lord, my soul; all my inmost being, praise His holy name. Praise the Lord, my soul, and forget not all His benefits—who forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit and crowns you with love and compassion, who satisfies your desires with good thing, so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's.
-Psalm 103:1-5

God heals our broken hearts.

He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.
- Psalm 147:3

The LORD is near to the brokenhearted; He saves the contrite in spirit.
-Psalm 34:18

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Our thoughts, actions, and spiritual state can affect our physical health.

Gracious words are like a honeycomb, sweetness to the soul and health to the body.
-Proverbs 16:24

Today I have given you the choice between life and death, between blessings and curses. Now I call on heaven and earth to witness the choice you make. Oh, that you would choose life, so that you and your descendants might live!
-Deuteronomy 30:19

A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
-Proverbs 17:22

Whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable — if anything is excellent or praiseworthy — think about such things.
-Philippians 4:8

See also: Encouraging New Testament Verses For The Hard Times

Bible verses for healing:
Listening to Biblical wisdom can bring physical healing and blessing.

My son, be attentive to my words; incline your ear to my sayings. Let them not escape from your sight; keep them within your heart. For they are life to those who find them, and healing to all their flesh.
- Proverbs 4:20-22

Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear it and take to heart what is written in it, because the time is near.
-Revelation 1:3

Sickness and disease can come and pass as seasons.

For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted, a time to kill, and a time to heal, a time to break down, and a time to build up.
-Ecclesiastes 3:1-3

Just as man is appointed to die once, and after that to face judgment, so also Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many; and He will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who eagerly await Him."
-Hebrews 9:27-28

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Bible Verses for Healing from the Gospel and New Testament

Jesus miraculously healed people during His earthly ministry. Jesus is the Great Physician.

‭‭And He went throughout all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom and healing every disease and every affliction among the people.
-Matthew 4:23

It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.
- Mark 2:17

He [Jesus] said to her, “Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be freed from your suffering.”
-Mark 5:34

And He laid His hands on her, and immediately she was made straight, and she glorified God.
-Luke 13:13

The Holy Spirit gave the apostles supernatural power to heal people through Jesus' name.

While you stretch out your hand to heal, and signs and wonders are performed through the name of your holy servant Jesus.
-Acts 4:30

And Peter said to him, “Aeneas, Jesus Christ heals you; rise and make your bed.” And immediately he rose.
- Acts 9:34

How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power. He went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.
-Acts 10:38

Physical healing on earth is a foreshadow of complete healing when we reach Heaven and we are physically, emotionally, and spiritually healed.

Our bodies are buried in brokenness, but they will be raised in glory. They are buried in weakness, but they will be raised in strength.
-1 Corinthians 15:43

He personally bore our sins in His [own] body on the tree [as on an altar and offered Himself on it], that we might die (cease to exist) to sin and live to righteousness. By His wounds you have been healed.
-1 Peter‬ ‭2:24‬

The same apostolic power to heal that was granted through the Holy Spirit is still active today.

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. 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. Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man has great power to prevail.
-James 5:14-16

See also: Prayers that God will always say YES to!

Bible Verses for healing:
While we wait for healing, we should encourage one another and serve one another. And keep asking God for healing.

Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, for to this you were called as members of one body. And be thankful.
-Colossians 3:15

Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God.
-Colossians 3:16

Is any one of you suffering? He should pray. Is anyone cheerful? He should sing praises.
-James 5:13

If you need wisdom, ask our generous God, and He will give it to you. He will not rebuke you for asking.
-James 1:5

See also: Bible Verses About Marriage and Love

Bible Verses for Healing
What about you?

Do you need healing? What do you need to trust God for?