People look up healing verses when they or someone they love is ill, recovering from surgery, or grieving. The Bible’s healing passages cover all three: prayers to be made well, promises that God binds up the broken-hearted, and the hope of a time with no more pain at all.
Below are short prayers you can pray as they are, verses about a broken heart, and promises of recovery. They come word for word from the public-domain World English Bible, so you can send one in a message, print it for a hospital room or turn it into a card.
27 verses and passages · World English Bible (public domain) · each one opens in the maker as a video or a phone wallpaper
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Verses written as requests, to pray for yourself or someone else.
Heal me, O Yahweh, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for you are my praise.
Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am faint. Yahweh, heal me, for my bones are troubled.
Yahweh my God, I cried to you, and you have healed me.
Yahweh will sustain him on his sickbed, and restore him from his bed of illness.
Is any among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the assembly, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord, and the prayer of faith will heal him who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. If he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.
Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.
Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be healthy, even as your soul prospers.
Praise Yahweh, my soul, and don’t forget all his benefits; who forgives all your sins; who heals all your diseases; who redeems your life from destruction; who crowns you with loving kindness and tender mercies; who satisfies your desire with good things, so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.
And he said, “If you will diligently listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, and will do that which is right in his eyes, and will pay attention to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you, which I have put on the Egyptians; for I am Yahweh who heals you.”
For grief, betrayal and the kind of pain no scan shows.
He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.
Yahweh is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves those who have a crushed spirit.
The Spirit of the Lord Yahweh is on me; because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble; he has sent me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound…
“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.”
My flesh and my heart fails, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
He will wipe away from them every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more. The first things have passed away.
A cheerful heart makes good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
Verses about recovery, renewed health and being made whole.
For I will restore health to you, and I will heal you of your wounds, says Yahweh; because they have called you an outcast, saying, It is Zion, whom no man seeks after.
Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them; and I will reveal to them abundance of peace and truth.
But he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought our peace was on him; and by his wounds we are healed.
Who his own self bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.
Then shall your light break forth as the morning, and your healing shall spring forth speedily; and your righteousness shall go before you; the glory of Yahweh shall be your rear guard.
But to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings. You will go out, and leap like calves of the stall.
Then they cry to Yahweh in their trouble, he saves them out of their distresses. He sends his word, and heals them, and delivers them from their graves.
My son, attend to my words. Turn your ear to my sayings. Let them not depart from your eyes. Keep them in the midst of your heart. For they are life to those who find them, and health to their whole body.
He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace, and be cured of your disease.”
If my people, who are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
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Yahweh my God, I cried to you, and you have healed me.
He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.
Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
A cheerful heart makes good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
Yahweh will sustain him on his sickbed, and restore him from his bed of illness.
Make a video opens the Bible verse video maker with the verse and its reference already in place: pick a template, add a hymn or calm music you have the rights to, and export a 9:16 MP4 for Reels, TikTok or Shorts, or 16:9 for a church screen. Wallpaper opens the Bible verse wallpaper maker at the size of a phone screen, with the text kept clear of the clock; export it as a PNG and set it as your lock screen.
Everything happens in your browser, nothing is uploaded, and there is no watermark. Copy puts the verse and its reference on your clipboard for a message or a card.
Jeremiah 17:14 is a short prayer in itself: “Heal me, O Yahweh, and I shall be healed.” Psalm 6:2 and Psalm 30:2 are also written as prayers, and James 5:14-15 describes praying for someone who is sick.
Psalm 147:3: “He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.” Psalm 34:18 says he is near to those with a broken heart.
3 John 1:2 is a natural fit, because it is itself a greeting wishing someone good health. Numbers 6:24-26 (“Yahweh bless you, and keep you”) also works well at the end of a card.
Every verse is quoted from the World English Bible, a modern English translation its editors have placed in the public domain, as published by Project Gutenberg (ebook #8294). Only the typography is changed: curly quotation marks, psalm titles and musical notes left out, and an ellipsis where a passage stops mid-sentence. American spellings (honor, neighbor) are the translation’s own. You are free to copy, print and share it. More about the choice of translation is on the Bible verses page.