So when we read the Word of God over the sick or the dying, we are not just offering comfort, we are proclaiming divine truth. We are releasing Heaven’s medicine into earthly situations. We are calling on Jehovah Rapha, the Lord our Healer, to do what only He can do. God watches over His Word to perform it (Jeremiah 1:12), and when His promises are declared in faith, miracles can happen.
Let this truth stir your heart: God’s Word is active, alive, and full of power. Speak it boldly, believe it deeply, and expect divine intervention. Because when God speaks, sickness must bow, death must retreat, and healing flows like a river.
Every word written in the Holy Scriptures is the living, breathing Word of God. It is not mere ink on paper, it is Spirit and life. God Himself has declared that He honors His Word even above His own Name (Psalm 138:2). That means when He speaks, He stands behind it with all of Heaven’s authority. His promises are not suggestions or possibilities, they are guaranteed truths sealed by His character.
If the Word of God says healing is available for the sick, then healing is not just a hope, it is a covenant reality. If the Bible declares life to those who are dying, then even in the shadow of death, resurrection power can be released. The same God who raised Lazarus from the grave, who healed the woman with the issue of blood, and who opened blind eyes is still the same today, He has not changed.
Bible Verses for the Sick and Dying
So when we read the Word of God over the sick or the dying, we are not just offering comfort—we are proclaiming divine truth. We are releasing Heaven’s medicine into earthly situations. We are calling on Jehovah Rapha, the Lord our Healer, to do what only He can do. God watches over His Word to perform it (Jeremiah 1:12), and when His promises are declared in faith, miracles can happen.
Let this truth stir your heart. God’s Word is active, alive, and full of power. Speak it boldly, believe it deeply, and expect divine intervention. Because when God speaks, sickness must bow, death must retreat, and healing flows like a river.
John 14:1–3
“Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.
In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.”
Psalm 23:4
“Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.”
2 Corinthians 5:1
“For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.”
Isaiah 41:10
“Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.”
Romans 8:18
“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.”
Revelation 21:4|
“And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.”
Philippians 1:21
“For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.”
2 Timothy 4:7–8
“I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:
Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.”
Psalm 73:26
“My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.”
Romans 14:8
“For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord’s.”
Bible Verses for a Dying Patient (KJV)
Psalm 116:15
“Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints.”
John 11:25–26
“Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?”
Isaiah 57:1–2
“The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come.
He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness.”
2 Corinthians 4:16–18
“For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;
While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.”
Psalm 34:18
“The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.”
Job 19:25–26
“For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:
And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God.”
Ecclesiastes 3:1–2
“To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted.”
Luke 23:43
“And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise.”
Psalm 121:7–8
|“The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul.
The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.”
Bible Verses for the Sick and Weak (KJV)
Jeremiah 30:17
“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.”
James 5:14–15
“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.”
Isaiah 53:5
“But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.”
Matthew 11:28–30
“Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”
Psalm 41:3
“The Lord will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness.”
3 John 1:2
“Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.”
Exodus 15:26
“And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes,
I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the Lord that healeth thee.”
Isaiah 40:29–31
“He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength. Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall: But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.”
Psalm 103:2–4
“Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:
Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases;
Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies.”
Proverbs 4:20–22
“My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.
Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.
For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.”
Mark 5:34
“And he said unto her, Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace, and be whole of thy plague.”
Bible Verses Against Sickness and Death (KJV)
Psalm 118:17
“I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the Lord.”
Exodus 23:25
“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.”
Isaiah 38:16
“O Lord, by these things men live, and in all these things is the life of my spirit: so wilt thou recover me, and make me to live.”
Jeremiah 33:6
“Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them, and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth.”
Deuteronomy 7:15
“And the Lord will take away from thee all sickness, and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee; but will lay them upon all them that hate thee.”
2 Kings 20:5
“Turn again, and tell Hezekiah the captain of my people, Thus saith the Lord… I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will heal thee.”
Job 33:24–25
“Then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.
His flesh shall be fresher than a child’s: he shall return to the days of his youth.”
Bible Verses for the Sick Ones (KJV)
James 5:14–15
“Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church… And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up.”
Isaiah 53:5
“But he was wounded for our transgressions… and with his stripes we are healed.”
Psalm 41:3
“The Lord will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness.”
Matthew 8:16–17
“…and he cast out the spirits with his word, and healed all that were sick:
That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses.”
Mark 1:40–41
“And there came a leper to him, beseeching him… And Jesus, moved with compassion, put forth his hand, and touched him, and saith unto him, I will; be thou clean.”
Proverbs 17:22
“A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.”
3 John 1:2
“Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.”
Psalm 107:20
“He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.”
Luke 6:19
“And the whole multitude sought to touch him: for there went virtue out of him, and healed them all.”
Bible Verses on Sickness and Diseases (KJV)
Deuteronomy 28:60
“Moreover he will bring upon thee all the diseases of Egypt, which thou wast afraid of; and they shall cleave unto thee.”
(Context: disobedience brings sickness — a warning)
Matthew 4:24
“And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people… and he healed them.”
Luke 13:11–13
“And, behold, there was a woman which had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years… and he laid his hands on her: and immediately she was made straight, and glorified God.”
Psalm 103:2–3
“Bless the Lord, O my soul… Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases.”
Mark 5:34
“And he said unto her, Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace, and be whole of thy plague.”
Isaiah 58:8
“Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily…”
Malachi 4:2
“But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings…”
Acts 10:38
“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…”
Encouraging Bible Verses for the Sick and Dying (KJV)
Psalm 73:26
“My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.”
John 14:1–3
“Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.
In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself.”
Romans 8:18
“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.”
2 Corinthians 5:1
“For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.”
Isaiah 41:10
“Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God:
I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.”
Revelation 21:4
“And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.”
2 Timothy 4:7–8
“I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:
Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness…”
Psalm 116:15
“Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints.”
Bible Verses for a Sick Person (KJV)
James 5:14–15
“Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church…
And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up…”
Isaiah 53:5
“But he was wounded for our transgressions… and with his stripes we are healed.”
Psalm 41:3
“The Lord will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness.”
Jeremiah 30:17
“For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the Lord…”
Psalm 103:2–3
“Bless the Lord, O my soul… Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases.”
Matthew 8:16–17
“…he cast out the spirits with his word, and healed all that were sick:
That it might be fulfilled which was spoken… Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses.”
Mark 5:34
“And he said unto her, Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace, and be whole of thy plague.”
3 John 1:2
“Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.”
Exodus 15:26
“…for I am the Lord that healeth thee.”
Bible Verses Against Sickness and Diseases (KJV)
Exodus 23:25
“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.”
Deuteronomy 7:15
“And the Lord will take away from thee all sickness, and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt… upon thee.”
Jeremiah 33:6
“Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them, and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth.”
Psalm 91:9–10
“Because thou hast made the Lord… thy habitation;
There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.”
Isaiah 58:8
“Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily…”
Malachi 4:2
“But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings…”
Mark 16:17–18
“…they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.”
Acts 10:38
“How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth… who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil…”
Proverbs 4:20–22
“My son, attend to my words… For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.”
Bible Verses to Read for a Sick Person (KJV)
These verses strengthen faith and remind the sick that healing and peace come from the Lord.
James 5:14–15
“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.”
Isaiah 53:5
“But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities:
the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.”
Jeremiah 30:17
“For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the Lord…”
Psalm 41:3
“The Lord will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness.”
3 John 1:2
“Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.”
Matthew 8:16–17
“When the even was come, they brought unto him many that were possessed with devils:
and he cast out the spirits with his word, and healed all that were sick:
That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying,
Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses.”
Psalm 103:2–3
“Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:
Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases.”
Exodus 15:26
“…for I am the Lord that healeth thee.”
Bible Verses to Comfort the Sick and Dying (KJV)
These verses bring peace, hope, and the assurance of eternal life for those nearing the end of life.
John 14:1–3
“Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.”
2 Corinthians 5:1
“For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved,
we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.”
Psalm 23:4
“Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil:
for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.”
Philippians 1:21
“For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.”
Romans 8:18
“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.”
Revelation 21:4
“And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death,
neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.”
Isaiah 41:10
“Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God:
I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.”
Psalm 116:15
“Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints.”
2 Timothy 4:7–8
“I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:
Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness,
which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day…”
