The word in Scripture

Healing in the Bible

The word healing appears 14 times in the King James Version of the Bible. Healing is the restoring of body and soul that God gives. And like every true word of Scripture, it finds its fullness in Jesus Christ.

What healing means in the Bible

Healing is the restoring of body and soul that God gives.

Where the word healing appears

Here are 8 of the passages where the word healing appears, chosen from across the Scriptures, in the words of the King James Bible:

“Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul lothed Zion? why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? we looked for peace, and there is no good; and for the time of healing, and behold trouble!”Jeremiah 14:19

“There is none to plead thy cause, that thou mayest be bound up: thou hast no healing medicines.”Jeremiah 30:13

“And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people.”Matthew 4:23

“And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people.”Matthew 9:35

“And they departed, and went through the towns, preaching the gospel, and healing every where.”Luke 9:6

“For the man was above forty years old, on whom this miracle of healing was shewed.”Acts 4:22

“How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.”Acts 10:38

“In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.”Revelation 22:2