16 Bible Verses About Sickness

And ye shall serve the Lord your God, and he shall bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee.

Exodus 23:25KJV

If a man or woman have a plague upon the head or the beard;

Leviticus 13:29KJV

And of her that is sick of her flowers, and of him that hath an issue, of the man, and of the woman, and of him that lieth with her that is unclean.

Leviticus 15:33KJV

And if a man shall lie with a woman having her sickness, and shall uncover her nakedness; he hath discovered her fountain, and she hath uncovered the fountain of her blood: and both of them shall be cut off from among their people.

Leviticus 20:18KJV

Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, them will the Lord bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed.

Deuteronomy 28:61KJV

Then the Lord will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance.

Deuteronomy 28:59KJV

And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, He is sick.

1 Samuel 19:14KJV

And David said unto him, To whom belongest thou? and whence art thou? And he said, I am a young man of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite; and my master left me, because three days agone I fell sick.

1 Samuel 30:13KJV

And Nathan departed unto his house. And the Lord struck the child that Uriah’s wife bare unto David, and it was very sick.

2 Samuel 12:15KJV

David therefore besought God for the child; and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night upon the earth.

2 Samuel 12:16KJV

And Amnon was so vexed, that he fell sick for his sister Tamar; for she was a virgin; and Amnon thought it hard for him to do any thing to her.

2 Samuel 13:2KJV

And Jonadab said unto him, Lay thee down on thy bed, and make thyself sick: and when thy father cometh to see thee, say unto him, I pray thee, let my sister Tamar come, and give me meat, and dress the meat in my sight, that I may see it, and eat it at her hand.

2 Samuel 13:5KJV

So Amnon lay down, and made himself sick: and when the king was come to see him, Amnon said unto the king, I pray thee, let Tamar my sister come, and make me a couple of cakes in my sight, that I may eat at her hand.

2 Samuel 13:6KJV

If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust, or if there be caterpiller; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness there be;

1 Kings 8:37KJV

And the Lord said unto Ahijah, Behold, the wife of Jeroboam cometh to ask a thing of thee for her son; for he is sick: thus and thus shalt thou say unto her: for it shall be, when she cometh in, that she shall feign herself to be another woman.

1 Kings 14:5KJV

And it came to pass after these things, that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick; and his sickness was so sore, that there was no breath left in him.

1 Kings 17:17KJV
Sickness, as scripture reveals, is woven into the fabric of mortal existence. It is not merely a physical burden but a summons – a call to surrender, a test of resilience, a stark reminder of our frailty and dependence upon the Eternal. These passages do not promise an easy escape but offer light for the journey through the shadows. They urge us toward patience amidst pain, trust when strength fails, and a deeper reliance on the divine physician who ministers not just to the body, but to the soul. Let us receive these scriptural truths not as simple comforts, but as profound invitations to find grace and purpose even in our weakened state, looking beyond the immediate affliction to the eternal hope that sustains us.