Bible Verses About Medication
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for medication, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 1,849 votes, led by 1 Corinthians 6:19-20. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Medication
1 Corinthians 6:19-2071 votes
What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
1 Timothy 5:2354 votes
Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach’s sake and thine often infirmities.
Proverbs 20:148 votes
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
Galatians 5:19-2147 votes
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
Ephesians 5:1847 votes
And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
1 Peter 5:846 votes
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
James 5:1445 votes
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:
Proverbs 17:2243 votes
A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
1 Corinthians 10:1341 votes
There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
Colossians 4:1441 votes
Luke, the beloved physician, and Demas, greet you.
Romans 12:137 votes
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
1 Peter 4:734 votes
But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.
Romans 13:1332 votes
Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.
Mark 5:25-2630 votes
And a certain woman, which had an issue of blood twelve years,
1 Corinthians 6:1230 votes
All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.
Galatians 5:2130 votes
Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
1 Corinthians 15:3327 votes
Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
Revelation 22:226 votes
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.
Isaiah 5:1125 votes
Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!
1 Corinthians 6:9-1125 votes
Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
Titus 2:1225 votes
Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;
Revelation 18:2324 votes
And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.
Revelation 21:824 votes
But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
Ezekiel 47:1223 votes
And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side and on that side, shall grow all trees for meat, whose leaf shall not fade, neither shall the fruit thereof be consumed: it shall bring forth new fruit according to his months, because their waters they issued out of the sanctuary: and the fruit thereof shall be for meat, and the leaf thereof for medicine.
Matthew 6:1323 votes
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.
What does the Bible say about medication?
Readers most often cite 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 on the subject of medication. Across 1,849 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 1 Timothy 5:23, Proverbs 20:1, Galatians 5:19-21. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.