Bible Verses About Medicine
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for medicine, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 44,453 votes, led by Proverbs 17:22. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Medicine
Proverbs 17:221,685 votes
A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
1 Timothy 5:231,372 votes
Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach’s sake and thine often infirmities.
Revelation 22:21,296 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.
Ezekiel 47:121,216 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 9:121,214 votes
But when Jesus heard that, he said unto them, They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick.
Jeremiah 8:221,156 votes
Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?
Isaiah 38:211,123 votes
For Isaiah had said, Let them take a lump of figs, and lay it for a plaister upon the boil, and he shall recover.
Luke 10:341,026 votes
And went to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and set him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him.
Job 5:18983 votes
For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole.
Jeremiah 46:11849 votes
Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin, the daughter of Egypt: in vain shalt thou use many medicines; for thou shalt not be cured.
James 5:15820 votes
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.
Romans 12:2780 votes
And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
Jeremiah 30:13733 votes
There is none to plead thy cause, that thou mayest be bound up: thou hast no healing medicines.
Psalms 103:3667 votes
Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases;
Revelation 1:1662 votes
The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:
Colossians 4:14586 votes
Luke, the beloved physician, and Demas, greet you.
Jeremiah 51:8582 votes
Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: howl for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.
Isaiah 1:6576 votes
From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.
2 Kings 20:5-8559 votes
Turn again, and tell Hezekiah the captain of my people, Thus saith the Lord, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will heal thee: on the third day thou shalt go up unto the house of the Lord.
1 Corinthians 6:19-20516 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?
Proverbs 31:6488 votes
Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts.
3 John 1:2483 votes
Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.
2 Kings 20:7475 votes
And Isaiah said, Take a lump of figs. And they took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered.
Genesis 50:2458 votes
And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.
Revelation 21:8448 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.
What does the Bible say about medicine?
Readers most often cite Proverbs 17:22 on the subject of medicine. Across 44,453 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 1 Timothy 5:23, Revelation 22:2, Ezekiel 47:12. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.