Finding the right words to tell a friend who’s sick isn’t easy. I can only imagine who you feel right now looking at your friend and wishing you can do something more to help them recover their health.
While you may not be able to make your friend regain their health, I know someone who can, you know Him too, He is the Lord our healer.
So today we want to provide whatever assistance we can. We want to bring a smile to your friend’s face in the midst of a difficult time by sharing with you a few wonderful healing scriptures you can share with your friend.
You would be doing your friend a world of good, you will help them to build their faith, trust God, and expect to be healed.
Relax; you have done enough, now let the Lord take over this situation as you read through these warm, hopeful, encouraging, and wonderful bible verses that you will eventually share with your sick friend.
Healing Scriptures for a Sick Friend
Exodus 23:25
You shall serve the Lord your God, and he will bless your bread and your water, and I will take sickness away from among you.
James 5:13-16
Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms. 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 has committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.
Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
Deuteronomy 7:15
And the Lord will take away from you all sickness, and none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which you knew, will he inflict on you, but he will lay them on all who hate you.
Psalms 34:19
Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all.
Psalms 105:37 (KJV)
He brought them forth also with silver and gold: and there was not one feeble person among their tribes.
Psalms 107:20
He sent out his word and healed them, and delivered them from their destruction.
Jeremiah 30:17
For I will restore health to you, and your wounds I will heal, declares the Lord, because they have called you an outcast:‘It is Zion, for whom no one cares!’
Matthew 12:15
Jesus, aware of this, withdrew from there. And many followed him, and he healed them all
Matthew 14:14
When he went ashore he saw a great crowd, and he had compassion on them and healed their sick.
Acts 10:37-38
That word, I say, ye know, which was published throughout all Judaea, and began from Galilee, after the baptism which John preached;
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; for God was with him.
Psalm 147:3
He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.
Revelations 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.
1 Peter 2:24
Who his own self bare our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
Exodus 15:26
If you diligently heed the voice of the Lord your God and do what is right in His sight, give ear to His commandments and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have brought on the Egyptians. For I am the Lord who heals you.
Exodus 23:25-26
So you shall serve the Lord your God, and He will bless your bread and your water. And I will take sickness away from the midst of you. No one shall suffer miscarriage or be barren in your land; I will fulfill the number of your days.
Deuteronomy 7:15
And the Lord will take away from you all sickness, and will afflict you with none of the terrible diseases of Egypt which you have known, but will lay them on all those who hate you.
Deuteronomy 28:1-2
Now it shall come to pass, if you diligently obey the voice of the Lord your God, to observe carefully all His commandments which I command you today, that the Lord your God will set you high above all nations of the earth. And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you because you obey the voice of the Lord your God.
1 Kings 8:56
There has not failed one word of all His good promise, which He promised through His servant Moses.
Isaiah 53:5
But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, and by His stripes, we are healed.
Jeremiah 1:12
Then the Lord said to me, “You have seen well, for I am ready to perform My word.
Jeremiah 30:17
For I will restore health to you and heal you of your wounds, says the Lord.
Hosea 4:6
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.
Joel 3:10
Let the weak say, ‘I am strong.’
Nahum 1:7
The Lord is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; And He knows those who trust in Him.
Nahum 1:9
He will make an utter end of it. Affliction will not rise up a second time.
Final Thoughts
Seeing someone we care about become ill, whether mentally or physically, is one of life’s most difficult experiences.
But God’s Word is true, and everything will be fine if you share these encouraging scriptures with your friend and encourage him or her to pray, trust God, and believe in healing.
There’s nothing God can’t do, so why not put your faith in me today?
