The Bible and Healing

The Source of Sin, Sick­nesses, and Diseases

Bible Scrip­tures

The Bible teaches that Satan and demons are the source of sin and dis­ease. That is, they prop­a­gate sin and dis­ease and con­trol the law of sin and death in the human race (Mt. 4:23–24; 10:1–7Mt. 4:23–24; 10:1–7
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23 And Jesus went about all Galilee, teach­ing in their syn­a­gogues, and preach­ing the gospel of the king­dom, and heal­ing all man­ner of sick­ness and all man­ner of dis­ease among the peo­ple. ²⁴ And his fame went through­out all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick peo­ple that were taken with divers dis­eases and tor­ments, and those which were pos­sessed with dev­ils, and those which were lunatick, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them. ^{10 1} And when he had called unto him his twelve dis­ci­ples, he gave them power against unclean spir­its, to cast them out, and to heal all man­ner of sick­ness and all man­ner of dis­ease. against: or, over ² Now the names of the twelve apos­tles are these; The first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother; ³ Philip, and Bartholomew; Thomas, and Matthew the pub­li­can; James the son of Alphaeus, and Leb­baeus, whose sur­name was Thad­daeus; ⁴ Simon the Canaan­ite, and Judas Iscar­iot, who also betrayed him. ⁵ These twelve Jesus sent forth, and com­manded them, say­ing, Go not into the way of the Gen­tiles, and into any city of the Samar­i­tans enter ye not: ⁶ But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. ⁷ And as ye go, preach, say­ing, The king­dom of heaven is at hand.  

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10 ¹ After these things the Lord appointed other sev­enty also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place, whither he him­self would come. ² There­fore said he unto them, The har­vest truly is great, but the labour­ers are few: pray ye there­fore the Lord of the har­vest, that he would send forth labour­ers into his har­vest. ³ Go your ways: behold, I send you forth as lambs among wolves. ⁴ Carry nei­ther purse, nor scrip, nor shoes: and salute no man by the way. ⁵ And into what­so­ever house ye enter, first say, Peace be to this house. ⁶ And if the son of peace be there, your peace shall rest upon it: if not, it shall turn to you again. ⁷ And in the same house remain, eat­ing and drink­ing such things as they give: for the labourer is wor­thy of his hire. Go not from house to house. ⁸ And into what­so­ever city ye enter, and they receive you, eat such things as are set before you: ⁹ And heal the sick that are therein, and say unto them, The king­dom of God is come nigh unto you. ¹⁰ But into what­so­ever city ye enter, and they receive you not, go your ways out into the streets of the same, and say, ¹¹ Even the very dust of your city, which cleaveth on us, we do wipe off against you: notwith­stand­ing be ye sure of this, that the king­dom of God is come nigh unto you. ¹² But I say unto you, that it shall be more tol­er­a­ble in that day for Sodom, than for that city. ¹³ Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Beth­saida! for if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon, which have been done in you, they had a great while ago repented, sit­ting in sack­cloth and ashes. ¹⁴ But it shall be more tol­er­a­ble for Tyre and Sidon at the judg­ment, than for you. ¹⁵ And thou, Caper­naum, which art exalted to heaven, shalt be thrust down to hell. ¹⁶ He that heareth you heareth me; and he that despiseth you despiseth me; and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me. ¹⁷ And the sev­enty returned again with joy, say­ing, Lord, even the dev­ils are sub­ject unto us through thy name. ¹⁸ And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as light­ning fall from heaven. ¹⁹ Behold, I give unto you power to tread on ser­pents and scor­pi­ons, and over all the power of the enemy: and noth­ing shall by any means hurt you. ²⁰ Notwith­stand­ing in this rejoice not, that the spir­its are sub­ject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are writ­ten in heaven. ¹⁶ And ought not this woman, being a daugh­ter of Abra­ham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eigh­teen years, be loosed from this bond on the sab­bath day?  

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10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abun­dantly.  

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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.  

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7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God for­bid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. lust: or, con­cu­pis­cence ⁸ But sin, tak­ing occa­sion by the com­mand­ment, wrought in me all man­ner of con­cu­pis­cence. For with­out the law sin was dead. ⁹ For I was alive with­out the law once: but when the com­mand­ment came, sin revived, and I died. ¹⁰ And the com­mand­ment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death. ¹¹ For sin, tak­ing occa­sion by the com­mand­ment, deceived me, and by it slew me. ¹² Where­fore the law is holy, and the com­mand­ment holy, and just, and good. ¹³ Was then that which is good made death unto me? God for­bid. But sin, that it might appear sin, work­ing death in me by that which is good; that sin by the com­mand­ment might become exceed­ing sin­ful. ¹⁴ For we know that the law is spir­i­tual: but I am car­nal, sold under sin. ¹⁵ For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I. allow: Gr. know ¹⁶ If then I do that which I would not, I con­sent unto the law that it is good. ¹⁷ Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. ¹⁸ For I know that in me dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to per­form that which is good I find not. ¹⁹ For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. ²⁰ Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. ²¹ I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. ²² For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: ²³ But I see another law in my mem­bers, war­ring against the law of my mind, and bring­ing me into cap­tiv­ity to the law of sin which is in my mem­bers. ²⁴ O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? the body…: or, this body of death ²⁵ I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin. ^{8 1} There is there­fore now no con­dem­na­tion to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. ² For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. ³ For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God send­ing his own Son in the like­ness of sin­ful flesh, and for sin, con­demned sin in the flesh: for sin: or, by a sac­ri­fice for sin ⁴ That the right­eous­ness of the law might be ful­filled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.  

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8 He that com­mit­teth sin is of the devil; for the devil sin­neth from the begin­ning. For this pur­pose the Son of God was man­i­fested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.  

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14 Foras­much then as the chil­dren are par­tak­ers of flesh and blood, he also him­self like­wise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; ¹⁵ And deliver them who through fear of death were all their life­time sub­ject to bondage.  

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21 And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his peo­ple from their sins. JESUS: that is, Sav­iour, Heb  

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7 In whom we have redemp­tion through his blood, the for­give­ness of sins, accord­ing to the riches of his grace;  

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7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fel­low­ship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. ⁸ If we say that we have no sin, we deceive our­selves, and the truth is not in us. ⁹ If we con­fess our sins, he is faith­ful and just to for­give us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unright­eous­ness.  

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5 And from Jesus Christ, who is the faith­ful wit­ness, and the first begot­ten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,  

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16 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: ¹⁷ That it might be ful­filled which was spo­ken by Esa­ias the prophet, say­ing, Him­self took our infir­mi­ties, and bare our sick­nesses.  

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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.  

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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. on: or, to The First Epis­tle Gen­eral of Peter ^{1 1} Peter, an apos­tle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scat­tered through­out Pon­tus, Gala­tia, Cap­pado­cia, Asia, and Bithy­nia, ² Elect accord­ing to the fore­knowl­edge of God the Father, through sanc­ti­fi­ca­tion of the Spirit, unto obe­di­ence and sprin­kling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be mul­ti­plied. ³ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which accord­ing to his abun­dant mercy hath begot­ten us again unto a lively hope by the res­ur­rec­tion of Jesus Christ from the dead, abun­dant: Gr. much ⁴ To an inher­i­tance incor­rupt­ible, and unde­filed, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, for you: or, for us ⁵ Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto sal­va­tion ready to be revealed in the last time. ⁶ Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a sea­son, if need be, ye are in heav­i­ness through man­i­fold temp­ta­tions: ⁷ That the trial of your faith, being much more pre­cious than of gold that per­isheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and hon­our and glory at the appear­ing of Jesus Christ: ⁸ Whom hav­ing not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believ­ing, ye rejoice with joy unspeak­able and full of glory: ⁹ Receiv­ing the end of your faith, even the sal­va­tion of your souls. ¹⁰ Of which sal­va­tion the prophets have enquired and searched dili­gently, who proph­e­sied of the grace that should come unto you: ¹¹ Search­ing what, or what man­ner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did sig­nify, when it tes­ti­fied before­hand the suf­fer­ings of Christ, and the glory that should fol­low. ¹² Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto them­selves, but unto us they did min­is­ter the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into. ¹³ Where­fore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the rev­e­la­tion of Jesus Christ; to the end: Gr. per­fectly ¹⁴ As obe­di­ent chil­dren, not fash­ion­ing your­selves accord­ing to the for­mer lusts in your igno­rance: ¹⁵ But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all man­ner of con­ver­sa­tion; ¹⁶ Because it is writ­ten, Be ye holy; for I am holy. ¹⁷ And if ye call on the Father, who with­out respect of per­sons jud­geth accord­ing to every man’s work, pass the time of your sojourn­ing here in fear: ¹⁸ Foras­much as ye know that ye were not redeemed with cor­rupt­ible things, as sil­ver and gold, from your vain con­ver­sa­tion received by tra­di­tion from your fathers; ¹⁹ But with the pre­cious blood of Christ, as of a lamb with­out blem­ish and with­out spot: ²⁰ Who ver­ily was fore­or­dained before the foun­da­tion of the world, but was man­i­fest in these last times for you, ²¹ Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God. ²² See­ing ye have puri­fied your souls in obey­ing the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fer­vently: ²³ Being born again, not of cor­rupt­ible seed, but of incor­rupt­ible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever. ²⁴ For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass with­ereth, and the flower thereof fal­l­eth away: For: or, For that ²⁵ But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.  

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8 The wind bloweth where it lis­teth, and thou hear­est the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.  

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7 Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: ⁸ For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh find­eth; and to him that knock­eth it shall be opened. ⁹ Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? ¹⁰ Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a ser­pent? ¹¹ If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your chil­dren, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him? ¹⁹ Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touch­ing any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven. ²⁰ For where two or three are gath­ered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them. ²⁰ And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbe­lief: for ver­ily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mus­tard seed, ye shall say unto this moun­tain, Remove hence to yon­der place; and it shall remove; and noth­ing shall be impos­si­ble unto you. ²¹ Jesus answered and said unto them, Ver­ily I say unto you, If ye have faith, and doubt not, ye shall not only do this which is done to the fig tree, but also if ye shall say unto this moun­tain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; it shall be done. ²² And all things, what­so­ever ye shall ask in prayer, believ­ing, ye shall receive.  

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22 And Jesus answer­ing saith unto them, Have faith in God. Have…: or, Have the faith of God ²³ For ver­ily I say unto you, That whoso­ever shall say unto this moun­tain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have what­so­ever he saith. ²⁴ There­fore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.  

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12 Ver­ily, ver­ily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father. ¹³ And what­so­ever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glo­ri­fied in the Son. ¹⁴ If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it. ¹⁵ If ye love me, keep my com­mand­ments. ¹⁶ And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Com­forter, that he may abide with you for ever; ¹⁷ Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world can­not receive, because it seeth him not, nei­ther knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. ¹⁸ I will not leave you com­fort­less: I will come to you. com­fort­less: or, orphans ¹⁹ Yet a lit­tle while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also. ²⁰ At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you. ²¹ He that hath my com­mand­ments, and keep­eth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will man­i­fest myself to him. ²² Judas saith unto him, not Iscar­iot, Lord, how is it that thou wilt man­i­fest thy­self unto us, and not unto the world? ²³ Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him. ²⁴ He that loveth me not keep­eth not my say­ings: and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father’s which sent me. ²⁵ These things have I spo­ken unto you, being yet present with you. ²⁶ But the Com­forter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remem­brance, what­so­ever I have said unto you. ²⁷ Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be trou­bled, nei­ther let it be afraid. ²⁸ Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I. ²⁹ And now I have told you before it come to pass, that, when it is come to pass, ye might believe. ³⁰ Here­after I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and hath noth­ing in me. ³¹ But that the world may know that I love the Father; and as the Father gave me com­mand­ment, even so I do. Arise, let us go hence. ^{15 1} I am the true vine, and my Father is the hus­band­man. ² Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he pur­geth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. ³ Now ye are clean through the word which I have spo­ken unto you. ⁴ Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch can­not bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. ⁵ I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for with­out me ye can do noth­ing. with­out me: or, sev­ered from me ⁶ If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is with­ered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned. ⁷ If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. ⁸ Herein is my Father glo­ri­fied, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my dis­ci­ples. ⁹ As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: con­tinue ye in my love. ¹⁰ If ye keep my com­mand­ments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s com­mand­ments, and abide in his love. ¹¹ These things have I spo­ken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full. ¹² This is my com­mand­ment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. ¹³ Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. ¹⁴ Ye are my friends, if ye do what­so­ever I com­mand you. ¹⁵ Hence­forth I call you not ser­vants; for the ser­vant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you. ¹⁶ Ye have not cho­sen me, but I have cho­sen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that what­so­ever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you. ¹⁷ These things I com­mand you, that ye love one another. ¹⁸ If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. ¹⁹ If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have cho­sen you out of the world, there­fore the world hateth you. ²⁰ Remem­ber the word that I said unto you, The ser­vant is not greater than his lord. If they have per­se­cuted me, they will also per­se­cute you; if they have kept my say­ing, they will keep yours also. ²¹ But all these things will they do unto you for my name’s sake, because they know not him that sent me. ²² If I had not come and spo­ken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloke for their sin. cloke: or, excuse ²³ He that hateth me hateth my Father also. ²⁴ If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father. ²⁵ But this cometh to pass, that the word might be ful­filled that is writ­ten in their law, They hated me with­out a cause. ²⁶ But when the Com­forter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which pro­ceedeth from the Father, he shall tes­tify of me: ²⁷ And ye also shall bear wit­ness, because ye have been with me from the begin­ning. ²³ And in that day ye shall ask me noth­ing. Ver­ily, ver­ily, I say unto you, What­so­ever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you. ²⁴ Hith­erto have ye asked noth­ing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full. ²⁵ These things have I spo­ken unto you in proverbs: but the time cometh, when I shall no more speak unto you in proverbs, but I shall shew you plainly of the Father. proverbs: or, para­bles ²⁶ At that day ye shall ask in my name: and I say not unto you, that I will pray the Father for you:  

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