Bible Verses About Sickness: Often sent as a punishment of sin

But if you will not hear me, nor do all my commandments:

If you despise my laws, and contemn my judgments so as not to do those things which are appointed by me, and to make void my covenant:

I also will do these things to you. I will quickly visit you with poverty, and burning heat, which shall waste your eyes, and consume your lives. You shall sow your seed in vain, which shall be devoured by your enemies.

And there was a letter brought him from Eliseus the prophet, in which it was written: Thus saith the Lord the God of David thy father: Because thou hast not walked in the ways of Josaphat thy father nor in the ways of Asa king of Juda,

But hast walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and hast made Juda and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit fornication, imitating the fornication of the house of Achab, moreover also thou hast killed thy brethren, the house of thy father, better men than thyself,

Behold the Lord will strike thee with a great plague, with all thy people, and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy substance.

And thou shalt be sick of a very grievous disease of thy bowels, till thy vital parts come out by little and little every day.

Therefore are there many infirm and weak among you: and many sleep.