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Psalm 103:3
who forgives all your sins, who heals all your diseases,
1By David. Praise the LORD, my soul! All that is within me, praise his holy name!
2Praise the LORD, my soul, and don’t forget all his benefits,
3who forgives all your sins, who heals all your diseases,
4who redeems your life from destruction, who crowns you with loving kindness and tender mercies,
5who satisfies your desire with good things, so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.
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The repeated “all” gives this praise a breadth that can bring both gratitude for forgiveness and hard questions about illness that remains.
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Exodus 15:26He said, “If you will diligently listen to the LORD your God’s voice, and will do that which is right in his eyes, and will pay attention to his commandments, …Both passages name the LORD as the one who heals diseases; Exodus places that declaration within commands to Israel.
Isaiah 53:5But 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.Both passages speak of sin and healing; Isaiah describes the suffering of one wounded for the transgressions of others.
Jeremiah 17:14Heal me, O LORD, and I will be healed. Save me, and I will be saved; for you are my praise.Jeremiah asks the LORD for healing and names him as his praise, while the psalm praises God for healing.
Psalm 30:2LORD my God, I cried to you, and you have healed me.Psalm 30 recounts a cry to God followed by healing, a specific instance of the healing praised in Psalm 103.
Jeremiah 30:17For I will restore health to you, and I will heal you of your wounds,” says the LORD, “because they have called you an outcast, saying, ‘It is Zion, whom no …Both passages attribute healing to the LORD; Jeremiah addresses that promise to Zion, whom others have called an outcast.
Psalm 41:3–4The LORD will sustain him on his sickbed, and restore him from his bed of illness.Both psalms describe the LORD's care for bodily illness, with Psalm 41 naming the sickbed as the place of his help.
Psalm 147:3He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.Both psalms praise God as healer; Psalm 103 names diseases, while Psalm 147 names broken hearts and wounds.
Mark 2:10–11But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”—he said to the paralytic—Forgiveness of sins is the shared thread: the psalm praises God for it, and Jesus declares the Son of Man's authority to forgive.
Exodus 23:25You shall serve the LORD your God, and he will bless your bread and your water, and I will take sickness away from among you.Both passages name relief from sickness among God's benefits; Exodus connects that promise with Israel's service to the LORD.
James 5:15and 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.Both passages speak of healing and forgiveness; James describes prayer for the sick and forgiveness if sins have been committed.
Exodus 34:7keeping loving kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and disobedience and sin; and who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the …Both passages name God's forgiveness of sin, while Exodus also declares that he will by no means clear the guilty.
Psalm 41:4I said, “LORD, have mercy on me! Heal me, for I have sinned against you.”Psalm 41 joins a plea for healing with confession of sin, sharing Psalm 103's concern with both healing and forgiveness.
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These words praise God as the source of forgiveness and healing. They give no timetable for recovery, and they do not make illness a measure of your faith.
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