“In Jesus’ Name You Will Be Healed”: 18 Verses to Speak Healing Over a Body in Faith

By Hayley Louisa Mark

It is the future tense that brings you here. Not the cry — heal me — and not the testimony — thou hast healed me — but the bravest, most exposed tense of all: you will be healed. You are standing over a body. Maybe it is your own, your hand laid on the side that aches, and you want to say a forward-facing word into the dark of not-knowing. Maybe it is another body — a child too hot in the night, a husband grey-faced after the appointment, a friend’s name you keep whispering into the steering wheel in the hospital car park — and what is rising in you is not a request but a declaration. You want to speak healing over them, in faith, in Jesus’ name. You want to say you will be healed and have it be more than a wish.

I understand the pull of that, and I am not going to shame it or flatten it. There is something biblical and good in speaking a forward word of faith over a body. But I am also going to be honest with you, more honest than some of the pages that taught you this language — because the future tense is exactly where this praying can curdle into a lever, and I love you too much to hand you a lever that will break in your hand. So here are eighteen future-tense verses to speak healing over a body in faith, gathered and held with both hands: spoken forward boldly, leaned on God and never on the force of your own saying, and never, ever weaponised against a body that has not yet caught up.

The short answer. A “you will be healed” bible verse is a future-tense healing word Scripture gives you to speak boldly over a body: “I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds” (Jeremiah 30:17); “then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily” (Isaiah 58:8); “they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover” (Mark 16:18). Speaking healing forward in faith is good — it is trust aimed at God, voiced aloud. But speak it as trust leaning on Him, not as a formula that obligates God or commands a disease to obey. God can heal and sometimes wonderfully does; He also does not heal every body in this life, and His nearness in the suffering is not a lesser answer. Speak it boldly, keep your doctors, and hold the outcome in His hands.

Please read this before the verses — on this page it matters more than almost anywhere. I am a writer who loves Scripture, not a doctor, and this is a reflection, not medical advice. Nothing here diagnoses, treats, or cures any illness, and a verse is not a substitute for care. If you or the person you are praying over is unwell, keep the doctors, take the medicine, go to the appointment — please do not let any sentence on this page stand between a sick body and a clinic. And because this is the future-tense page — the you will be healed, in Jesus’ name, speak it in faith page — I owe you a particular honesty. This is precisely the language that gets taught as a machine: say it with enough conviction, never let a doubt cross your lips, command the sickness in the right name, and the body must obey. I will not hand you that. Healing was never bought by the force of your declaration. God can heal, and sometimes does, gloriously — healing is real and good to ask for boldly. And He does not heal every body on this side of heaven, and His nearness inside the suffering is not the runner-up prize. If you have spoken you will be healed over someone and the body has not moved, you have not done it wrong, and they did not lack faith. There is no shame on this page. Let me show you how to speak these forward so they are trust voiced aloud — not a verdict you must enforce and be crushed by.

How to use this page: speaking forward without the pressure

The verses below are sorted not by chapter but by who you are speaking over and which kind of future word you most need to say in faith tonight. Jump to the room you are standing in:

Every verse below is quoted exactly from the King James Version, the old thee and thou and healeth kept intact — partly because the slow cadence settles the breath of whoever speaks it, and partly because a forward-facing word of faith is steadier on your tongue when the sentence itself is old and finished and not something you are improvising under fear. Where an ellipsis appears, it trims for length only and never bends the sense. And where a much-loved phrase is not literally in the Bible the way it gets said, I will tell you plainly and name the real verse, because faith spoken forward should be spoken on solid ground.

The honest difference: declaring vs. trusting out loud

Read this before any verse, because it is the hinge the whole page turns on. The future tense — you will be healed — can be spoken two ways that sound almost identical and could not be more different underneath.

One way points the words at the sickness, and makes your saying the power: you declare wellness at a body the way you would push against a door, and if the door does not open you conclude you did not push hard enough — not enough faith, a doubt that leaked in, the wrong wording. That way ends in shame every time the body does not comply, and it quietly makes you responsible for an outcome that was never yours to manufacture. I will not teach you that, because it is not how Scripture’s own healed people prayed, and because it breaks the very people it claims to help.

The other way points the same words toward God and over the body as trust — you speak you will be healed as a hope leaned on Him, a forward-facing confidence in His goodness and His power, with the outcome held openly in His hands. “Whatsoever he saith” in Mark 11:23 is the language of a heart resting its whole weight on God, not a heart that has found the mechanism to make God comply. The father in Mark 9:24 prayed “Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief” — a faith with a visible crack in it — and Jesus healed his child anyway. That is the model. You may speak boldly forward and carry an honest doubt in the same breath, because the power was never in the flawlessness of your declaring. It was always in Him.

So when you speak you will be healed over a body tonight, speak it the second way. Say it like a person leaning hard on a strong arm — not like a person commanding a slave. The verses below are all written to be spoken that way.

“I will” — God’s own future promises to speak back to Him

The safest future-tense words to speak forward over a body are the ones where God is the one saying I will. You are not inventing a promise to chant; you are repeating one He already made, said back to Him in faith. The future is His to keep, and you are simply standing on it.

1. Jeremiah 30:17

“For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the LORD…”

God’s own future tense, twice — I will restore, I will heal — and it is the cleanest verse in Scripture to speak forward over a body, because the thee is already addressed to a battered, exiled people and through them to whoever is sick tonight. You are not declaring with your own authority; you are reading God His own word back. (The sibling page on saying verses over your own body leans on the I shall be healed half of this; here, lean on the I will half — His promise, spoken forward over the one you are praying for, not your confession of your own.) Body practice: lay your hand lightly on the body — yours or theirs — and say it in the second person, as God’s word over them: The LORD says, I will restore your health; I will heal you of your wounds. Speak it as His sentence, so the confidence rests on the One who said it and never tips into something you must force into being.

2. Exodus 23:25

“…and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee.”

Another divine I will, and notice its disposition: God describes Himself as one who removes sickness, not one who is indifferent to it. To speak this forward is to remind a frightened body which way God leans. Body practice: speak it forward over the person — the LORD will take this from the midst of you — and as you say take away, make one gesture of release on their behalf: open your closed hand, or lift it off the sore place and turn the palm up, letting your body act out the handing-over to God rather than the seizing of a result.

3. Jeremiah 33:6

“Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them, and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth.”

A future promise stacked high — health, cure, cure them again, and then abundance of peace. It belongs here because it refuses to separate the body’s cure from the soul’s peace; God’s I will reaches for both at once. Speak it when you long for a healing that goes deeper than the symptom. Body practice: say it forward slowly, and at abundance of peace and truth, let your own shoulders drop — the peace is part of the promise you are speaking, and it can begin in you, the one praying, before it is anything you can prove in the body.

4. Ezekiel 34:16

“…I will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick…”

God speaking as the shepherd who will go after the broken and the weak — future tense, deliberate, personal. The will strengthen that which was sick is a beautiful thing to speak forward over a body losing its strength. Body practice: speak it over the weakest part — the failing limb, the tired heart, the sick organ — naming it plainly to God: Lord, You said You will strengthen that which was sick; strengthen this. You are pointing His own promise at the exact place, as trust, not command.

“Thy health shall spring forth” — the verses that point at the morning

These verses are not God saying I will in the first person, but the shall of prophets and psalmists pointing forward at a healing that is coming. They are future-tense hope to lean your weight toward — said over a body still in the dark, with your face turned to the morning.

5. Isaiah 58:8

“Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily…”

Thine health shall spring forth — what a verb. Not crawl, not eventually limp back: spring forth, the way light breaks at dawn whether or not you have slept. To speak this forward is to declare which direction the day is moving, even from inside the night. (I will be honest, as this page must: in context this then follows a turning toward justice and mercy, not a guaranteed timetable for a cure — so speak it as the direction of God’s heart, the way He bends toward restoration, not as a clock you can hold Him to.) Body practice: turn physically toward the nearest window or the east, and say thine health shall spring forth facing the light, letting your body rehearse the hope of morning it cannot yet see.

6. Malachi 4:2

“…the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.”

A future picture so tender it almost surprises you — ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall, the image of penned, sickly animals let out at last to leap in the open. Healing in his wings is Christ Himself, and the verse points forward to the morning of His rising over a body. Body practice: speak healing in his wings forward over the person, and picture, as you say ye shall go forth, not the cure itself but the after — the day they are out in the air again, moving freely. Let the hope have a picture; it gives the future tense something to lean on.

7. Isaiah 35:5–6

“Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. Then shall the lame man leap as an hart…”

The great prophecy of shall — eyes opened, ears unstopped, the lame leaping. It is the future God is bending the whole world toward, and Jesus pointed John the Baptist straight to it when the blind saw and the lame walked. Speak it as the direction of redemption — knowing, honestly, that its fullest then is the world made new, and that some of our bodies wait for that morning rather than this one. Body practice: speak the line that matches the specific need — the eyes of the blind shall be opened over failing sight, the lame man shall leap over a body that cannot move — and let it be a forward word that reaches all the way to the resurrection if it must, and is no less true for it.

8. Psalm 41:3

“The LORD will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou wilt make all his bed in sickness.”

A future word for a body that cannot get up — the LORD will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing. It does not promise the bed will be empty by morning; it promises God’s strength meeting the person in it. That honesty is exactly why it can be spoken forward without breaking. Body practice: if you are at someone’s sickbed, lay a hand on the edge of the mattress and speak the LORD will strengthen you upon this bed — letting the promise land where they actually are, not where you wish they were.

Speaking healing over someone else in faith

Maybe the body is not yours. You are interceding — speaking a forward word of faith over a child, a spouse, a friend, a parent. These verses are for that: said over another, in faith, in love. (For a fuller set of blessing-words to send someone hurting, the sibling page on “May God heal you” verses is built entirely for that; here are the future-tense ones to speak directly over them.)

9. James 5:14–15

“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…”

This shared anchor appears across the cluster — here, notice what it actually pictures: not a lone heroic declarer, but a community praying over a sick person together, with oil, in the Lord’s name. The prayer of faith shall save the sick is future tense, yes — but it is a prayer, leaned on God, prayed by ordinary elders, not a command issued by a spiritual expert. That is the honest model for praying over another. Body practice: if you can, do the small bodily thing the verse describes — touch a little oil to their forehead, or simply lay your hand on their shoulder — and pray over them rather than at the sickness: Lord, save this one; raise them up. And do not pray alone if you can help it — call someone to pray with you, the way the verse says.

10. Mark 16:18

“…they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.”

They shall recover — future tense, spoken by the risen Christ over those His followers would pray for. It is one of the most-quoted lines for laying hands on the sick, and rightly loved. Hold it honestly: it describes the general pattern of God working healing through His people, not a guarantee attached to every individual hand-laying — the same apostles who saw many recover also left a Trophimus sick at Miletus (2 Timothy 4:20). So lay your hands and speak it in real faith, and leave the they shall recover with the One who keeps it. Body practice: lay both hands gently on the sick person, say in the name of Jesus, may you recover, and then — this is the part that keeps it trust — take your hands away and open them upward, returning the outcome to God instead of gripping it.

11. Matthew 8:13

“And Jesus said unto the centurion, Go thy way; and as thou hast believed, so be it done unto thee. And his servant was healed in the selfsame hour.”

The centurion asked Jesus to heal a servant who was not even in the room — healing spoken at a distance, over a body elsewhere. This is the verse for praying over someone who is far from you: another city, another ward, the other end of a phone call. Body practice: if the person you are praying for is not with you, hold something that represents them — a photograph, a name written on paper, your phone with their message open — and speak the forward word over that small token: Lord, as far as they are from me, they are not far from You; heal them in this hour if it be Your will. Distance is nothing to the One you are speaking to.

12. 3 John 1:2

“Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.”

This anchor shows up across the cluster, and here is its true shape: it is a wish spoken over a beloved person — a blessing John sends his friend, not a verdict he enforces. That is the gentlest and truest form of speaking healing over another: not you must be well, but I wish, above all, that you would be well. Body practice: say it over the person in the second person, the way a loving friend would — Beloved, I wish above all things that you may be in health — and notice you are blessing them, not commanding their body. A blessing can be spoken in full faith and still leave God free.

“In Jesus’ name” — what the name actually means when you pray it

You almost certainly searched the exact phrase in Jesus’ name you will be healed, so let me hold those four words honestly, because they are precious and they are also badly misused.

To pray in Jesus’ name is not to add a password that triggers a result. It is to pray on His authority and according to His character and will — to ask as one who belongs to Him, in line with who He is. When Peter said to the lame man “In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk” (Acts 3:6), the power was not in Peter’s volume or technique; it was Christ Himself, healing through a man who knew he had nothing of his own — “his name… hath made this man strong” (Acts 3:16), Peter is at pains to say. The name is not a lever you pull. It is a Person you defer to.

So you may absolutely pray in Jesus’ name over a body — gladly, boldly. But praying in His name includes praying as He prayed: “not my will, but thine, be done” (Luke 22:42). To use His name rightly is to want what He wants more than to bind Him to what you want. That is not weaker faith. It is the only kind of faith that can survive an unhealed body without shattering.

13. Acts 3:6

“…In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk.”

Spoken over a man lame from birth, and he walked — a real, bodily, future-into-present healing in the name. Speak it in faith; just remember Peter’s own insistence that the name, not the speaker, did it. Body practice: if you speak rise up over a body, say it gently and then physically help — reach out a hand the way Peter took the lame man by the right hand (Acts 3:7). Faith spoken in the name and a hand actually offered belong together.

14. John 14:13

“And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.”

The promise behind the phrase — whatsoever ye shall ask in my name. But read the clause He attaches: that the Father may be glorified. Praying in His name means asking for what would glorify the Father, which keeps it from being a blank cheque for whatever we demand. Speak it as bold, surrendered asking. Body practice: end your prayer over the body the way the verse ends — that the Father may be glorified — out loud, every time. It re-aims the whole prayer at God’s glory instead of only at the outcome, and that small habit keeps the asking honest.

15. Philippians 2:10

“That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow…”

The name before which everything bows — sickness included, ultimately. It is right to speak healing under that authority. But the verse is about His exaltation, not a technique you wield, and the every knee finds its completion at His return, not always at our bedside tonight. Body practice: before you speak any healing word, say this verse first, as a kind of bowing — at the name of Jesus every knee shall bow — and let it put you, the one praying, on your knees first. You speak the name best from underneath it.

The both/and: future words that keep their honesty

These last verses are the ones I most want in your mouth if you are afraid the future tense might be a lie — because they speak forward and stay honest, holding the real both/and that this whole house is built on. They are for when you have spoken you will be healed and the body has not caught up, and you need a forward word that will not break.

16. Psalm 27:13–14

“I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living. Wait on the LORD… and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.”

A future word with a wait built into it — he shall strengthen thine heart, but the path there runs through waiting, not instant resolution. This is the verse for the long forward-leaning trust that does not yet have its answer. Body practice: speak he shall strengthen thine heart forward, and then do the hard thing the verse commands — wait — by simply staying, hand on the body, for one more slow minute without demanding the outcome arrive. The waiting is part of the faith, not a failure of it.

17. 2 Corinthians 4:16

“…though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.”

The most honest future tense on the page. It does not pretend the outward man — the body — always recovers; sometimes it perishes, and the verse says so without flinching. And it points to a renewing that is happening anyway, day by day, in the inward person, that no diagnosis can touch. Speak it when the body’s future is uncertain and you still need a true forward word. Body practice: lay one hand on the body and one over the heart, and speak both halves honestly — though this outward body is failing, the inward person is being renewed day by day — letting the second hand carry a hope the first one cannot guarantee.

18. Revelation 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…”

The furthest and surest future tense of all — there shall be… no more pain. I end here on purpose. Every healing we ask for in this life is a small foretaste of this, the morning God is bending the whole creation toward. Some bodies are healed before it; every body that belongs to Him is healed at it. To speak this over a suffering person is to declare a future that is certain — no if, no enough faith, no clause — and on the night a nearer healing is in doubt, it may be the truest forward word your mouth can say. Body practice: speak there shall be no more pain slowly over the body, and let it be the one you will be healed you can promise without flinching: maybe not by morning, but surely, finally, by His own hand, with no tears left over.

How to speak “you will be healed” forward over a body

This is the part with your breath and your hands in it, because speaking a forward word over a body is something the lungs and the voice and the loosened jaw do, not only the mind. Do it gently. None of these steps is a technique that obligates a cure; they are simply how you speak faith forward over a frightened body — yours or another’s — without it tightening into a demand.

  1. Choose one verse — the one that matches who you’re speaking over and what kind of future word you need. God’s I will for standing on a promise; thy health shall spring forth for turning toward morning; James 5 for praying over someone with others; Revelation 21:4 for the night a nearer healing is in doubt. One verse, spoken in faith, is plenty.
  2. Exhale first, long and slow, before a single word. Make the out-breath longer than the in-breath. You cannot speak a steady forward word on a panicked breath, and a clenched body cannot bless gently.
  3. Lay a hand on the body — yours or theirs. Not as a charge you are sending in. Just kindness in the skin, the oldest human sign of I am here, and so is God.
  4. Speak it aloud, slowly, in the second person. You will be healed… the LORD will restore your health. Saying it aloud does work that silent reading does not — and if you are praying over yourself, you become the one who hears the promise, which is half of why it helps.
  5. Speak it toward God and over the body — never at the sickness. This is the whole hinge. You are not commanding cells or pushing on a door with your voice. You are entrusting a body to a Father and steadying a frightened soul with a true forward word. Let an honest doubt come if it comes; pray straight through it, the way the father in Mark 9:24 did.
  6. End it in His name and His will — and keep the appointment. Close with in Jesus’ name and, like John 14:13, that the Father may be glorified — and then leave the outcome with Him. Speaking the verse boldly and taking the medicine belong in the same pair of hands. Pray, and go to the doctor. Both.

A note on the science

There is a measurable reason that speaking a calm sentence aloud, slowly, over a frightened body — your own or someone else’s — does more than reading it silently. Fear for the body recruits the sympathetic “fight-or-flight” branch of the nervous system: the breath quickens and shallows, the jaw and throat tighten, the internal alarm keeps ringing. Speaking slowly and deliberately requires a longer, controlled exhale — you cannot articulate a measured sentence on a shallow, panicked breath — and that lengthened out-breath stimulates the vagus nerve, nudging the body from the sympathetic toward the parasympathetic, “rest-and-restore” state; the heart rate eases on the exhale, and unclenching the jaw to form the words feeds the same calming signal back the other way. There is also a documented social dimension: a calm, low, steady voice spoken over an anxious person can help settle their nervous system too, through the same parasympathetic channels — which is part of why a frightened child quiets when a parent speaks slowly and gently nearby. Now the boundary, stated exactly. This calms the nervous system — the speaker’s, and to some degree the listener’s. It does not cure a disease, command cells, or shorten an illness, and nothing here should be read as a claim that speaking a verse over a body treats a condition or replaces medical care. Keep the doctors and the medicine. What the slow, spoken, forward word does is quiet the alarm enough that the person can be present to the One being prayed to, instead of drowned out by fear. The breath settles the body; the prayer reaches past it. I am only describing the first of those two rooms.

—The body-science here reflects established neuroscience of the nervous system. What the science actually says about a settled body → · the research behind these pages

Take the words with you

When you are standing over a body at three in the morning, you will not remember which verse pointed which direction. So I made you something small to keep within reach.

Speak It Forward is a free one-page printable — twelve of the future-tense healing verses from this page, the I will restore health unto thee, thine health shall spring forth, they shall recover, there shall be no more pain lines — set in type large enough to read aloud by a low lamp, over your own body or over someone you love. It is meant to live where you actually pray it: inside a Bible, folded into a hospital bag, taped beside a sickbed, held over a phone with their name on the screen.

→ Get the free printable, Speak It Forward — no cost, yours to keep.

And if you want somewhere to walk this season one quiet page at a time — to write down the verse you spoke today, the small mercy, the date the news changed, the prayer you could only whisper forward in faith — our Stilling Waves devotional journal for seasons of healing was made for exactly the hour you are in. It speaks boldly and surrenders gently, and it will not rush you toward an answer you do not have yet.

→ See the Stilling Waves journal

Where to go from here

If speaking these forward steadied something, here are the nearest rooms in the house:

FAQ

Is “in Jesus’ name you will be healed” an actual Bible verse?
Not as a single sentence — that exact phrase is a way people combine biblical language, not a verse you can look up. But every part of it is rooted in Scripture: praying and healing “in the name of Jesus” (Acts 3:6; 4:30), and God’s future-tense promises to heal (“I will restore health unto thee,” Jeremiah 30:17; “they shall recover,” Mark 16:18). The honest way to pray it is in Jesus’ name meaning on His authority and according to His will (Luke 22:42; John 14:13) — not as a password that forces a result. Speak it boldly as trust; hold the outcome in His hands.

What’s the difference between “you will be healed” and “being healed” verses?
Mostly tense and posture, and it matters. The being healed / heal me, I shall be healed verses (Jeremiah 17:14; Psalm 30:2) are present and first-person — words to cry or confess over your own body now. The you will be healed verses are future-tense and often spoken over a body, your own or someone else’s, leaning forward in faith toward a healing that has not come yet (Jeremiah 30:17; Isaiah 58:8; Mark 16:18). Both are good; this page is the forward-facing one. The sibling page on “being healed” carries the present-tense cries.

Can I speak healing over someone else, or only over myself?
You can absolutely speak it over someone else — that is intercession, and Scripture is full of it. James 5:14–15 has elders praying over the sick; the centurion’s servant was healed at a distance (Matthew 8:13); 3 John 1:2 is a healing wish spoken over a beloved friend. Lay a hand on them or hold something that represents them if they are far away, and speak the verse as a blessing and a trusting prayer over them — not a verdict you enforce on their body. And pray with others where you can, rather than carrying it alone.

What if I speak “you will be healed” in faith and the person isn’t healed?
Then you have not failed, and neither did they, and there is no shame here. Healing was never bought by the force or flawlessness of your declaring. God can heal and sometimes does, gloriously — but the Bible shows, honestly, that He does not heal every body in this life: Paul carried a thorn God chose not to remove (2 Corinthians 12:9), and the apostles left a faithful man sick at Miletus (2 Timothy 4:20). An unhealed body is never proof of too little faith. Keep asking boldly, keep the doctors, and let “there shall be no more pain” (Revelation 21:4) be the you will be healed that is finally, certainly true.

Should I speak these verses instead of getting medical treatment?
No — never instead. Speaking Scripture in faith over a body and pursuing good medical care belong in the same pair of hands. Take the medicine, keep the appointment, follow the treatment, and pray boldly alongside all of it. Nothing on this page is medical advice, and a verse is not a substitute for care. If you or the person you are praying over is seriously unwell, please contact a qualified medical professional today.

This article is a reflection on Scripture and prayer. It is not medical advice and does not diagnose, treat, or cure any condition. If you are unwell, please see a qualified medical professional and continue any treatment they have given you.