What does the Bible say about disease?

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• Exodus 23:25

  You shall serve Yahweh your God, and he will bless your bread and your water, and I will take sickness away from your midst.

• Psalms 103:3

  Who forgives all your sins; Who heals all your diseases;

• Proverbs 17:22

  A cheerful heart makes good medicine, But a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

• Exodus 15:26

  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."

• Jeremiah 32:27

  Behold, I am Yahweh, the God of all flesh: is there anything too hard for me?

• Isaiah 38:1-8

  [1] In those days was Hezekiah sick to death. Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said to him, Thus says Yahweh, Set your house in order; for you shall die, and not live. [2] Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall, and prayed to Yahweh, [3] and said, Remember now, Yahweh, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight. Hezekiah wept sore. [4] Then came the word of Yahweh to Isaiah, saying, [5] Go, and tell Hezekiah, Thus says Yahweh, the God of David your father, I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears: behold, I will add to your days fifteen years. [6] I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria; and I will defend this city. [7] This shall be the sign to you from Yahweh, that Yahweh will do this thing that he has spoken: [8] behold, I will cause the shadow on the steps, which is gone down on the dial of Ahaz with the sun, to return backward ten steps. So the sun returned ten steps on the dial whereon it was gone down.

• Mark 5:26

  and had suffered many things by many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was no better, but rather grew worse,

• Deuteronomy 28:20-22

  [20] Yahweh will send on you cursing, confusion, and rebuke, in all that you put your hand to do, until you are destroyed, and until you perish quickly; because of the evil of your doings, by which you have forsaken me. [21] Yahweh will make the pestilence cleave to you, until he have consumed you from off the land, where you go in to possess it. [22] Yahweh will strike you with consumption, and with fever, and with inflammation, and with fiery heat, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue you until you perish.

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