5 Life-Changing Bible Verses on Healing in Romans

Healing, whether from physical wounds, emotional scars, or spiritual burdens, can often feel overwhelming. Through the Book of Romans, Paul addresses both the human struggle and the hope we have in Christ. Through passages like Romans 5 and 8, we find promises of God’s peace, reassurance of His transforming power, and guidance on enduring life’s harsh realities. Let’s explore how these verses offer a pathway to deeper healing and wholeness, one that invites us to lean on Christ’s example.


1. Romans 5:1–2 (NLT)

“Therefore, since we have been made right in God’s sight by faith, we have peace with God because of what Jesus Christ our Lord has done for us. Because of our Faith, Christ has brought us into this place of undeserved privilege where we now stand, and we confidently and joyfully look forward to sharing God’s glory.”

Questions We Can Ask?

  • How can faith help sustain us when healing isn’t instantaneous or seems delayed?
  • How does the promise of future restoration with God reshape our view of today’s hardships?
  • In what ways can peace with God transform emotional turmoil or stress into a pathway for greater wholeness?

Thoughts:

I have often thought about where my life would be now without guidance from others. Where would it be without guidance from people throughout history who wrote down the lessons from their experiences. Without this guidance I would be starting from scratch. In addition I have a pretty strong awareness that I don’t always make the best decisions. Sometimes I do, but sometimes I don’t.

If I only make the right decision 50% of the time, or even 80%, or 95% of the time how can I expect my life to be lived out to its fullest. How can I possibly hold up to the challenges that life throws at me? How could I properly heal from trauma or suffering if I don’t know how. Personally I can’t. I believe what Paul is saying is that we have Jesus to lean on as our own abilities fall short. We have the evidence of his actions and the example he set to guide us through hardship and into healing.

We would still have hardship and trauma without Jesus, that’s just how it goes. Life can be brutal, people can be harsh, but thankfully we have someone who we can look to for peace.


These verses remind us that we are set free (justified) through Christ, bringing peace to our hearts and minds. This peace is a crucial part of the healing process for our soul and spirit.


2. Romans 5:3–5 (NLT)

“We can rejoice, too, when we run into problems and trials, for we know that they help us develop endurance. And endurance develops strength of character, and character strengthens our confident hope of salvation. And this hope will not lead to disappointment. For we know how dearly God loves us, because he has given us the Holy Spirit to fill our hearts with his love.”

Questions To Ask:

  • What would it look like practically to “rejoice” in the midst of hardship?
  • How does enduring hardship shape our character in ways that comfort and ease cannot?

Thoughts:

Everyone likes being comfortable, and it’s tempting to stay there. Getting outside of what we are comfortable with requires us to take risks, be vulnerable, and susceptible to pain. However, most of the things we have in life that we are grateful for required risk. Even basic things like walking, at one point required us to take a chance of falling, of injury. We did it though, and we fell a lot. We eventually learned to not fall as much and look at us now.

It’s hard to recognize this in our lives sometimes when we are experiencing something difficult we don’t understand. However, when we take risks, get injured, and then heal from that injured we are stronger. We have the ability to carry more weight than we could before. We can impact more people, and we can rejoice in the journey of hardship that gave us that ability.


3. Romans 8:1–2 (NLT)

“So now there is no condemnation for those who belong to Christ Jesus. And because you belong to him, the power of the life-giving Spirit has freed you from the power of sin that leads to death.”

Questions to Ask:

  • What does “no condemnation” look like when we apply it to our everyday life?
  • How does this promise change the way we view our past and the way we heal?

Thoughts:

It’s easy for our past to have a since of finality to it. After all, the past is unchangeable. Whether it’s healing from something we did or something that was done to us the consequences can sometimes seem overwhelming. However, the idea of not being condemned by our past takes away that finality. It removes the finality of those consequences.

If we’ve gone through hard seasons in life, I think this can be hard to trust. How can we know this is true? For me the answer to this is that there is a lot of evidence of it as we read through the Bible. It’s full of stories of people who have had terrible things done to them, and who have done terrible things. The best examples, I believe are both Jesus and Paul, the author of Romans.

Jesus obviously had a lot done to him that he didn’t deserve. He was sentenced to torture and ultimately to a brutal death. It’s hard to get much worse than that. Even in the climax of his suffering he said “Father, forgive them, for they don’t know what they are doing” (Luke 23:34). Jesus wasn’t bound by the circumstances surrounding him, he had the perspective to rise above his physical and emotional pain. We now have the advantage of seeing how that perspective, and the life of Jesus changed history. We have to ability to follow that example.

Paul in many ways was on the opposite end of the spectrum. He persecuted people who believed in Jesus. He mistreated people, he made mistakes of which we was very deserving of experiencing consequences for. However, he changed course and the mistakes he made from his past no longer defined who he was. In fact they made is story unique, and it’s through him that we have the book of Romans.

Christ showed us a way to heal from our past and our circumstances in a new way. Paul and so many other people throughout history have seen the power that this new way provides. It’s different than how we would approach healing on our own strength and knowledge, but it has changed the lives and the stories of so many people.


4. Romans 8:11 (NLT)

“The Spirit of God, who raised Jesus from the dead, lives in you. And just as God raised Christ Jesus from the dead, he will give life to your mortal bodies by this same Spirit living within you.”

Questions to Ask:

  • How does hearing that “the Spirit of God…lives in you” change our perspective of healing?
  • What fears can we place under the authority of God’s resurrection power?

Thoughts:

Often the aspects of Christ’s resurrection that resonates with me the most through challenges, is the perfect discipline Christ embodied. We have the benefit, now, thousand of years later, to see the historical significance of that level of discipline. It’s one thing to have a concept of what we think perfection should look like in our life, but having the wisdom of how to put the right disciplines in place I believe is entirely different.

I think healing has to be met with discipline, it requires seeing the good things that are in our life, and removing the things that shouldn’t be there. Those disciplines are easier said than done. However, knowing that we have the ability to look at how Christ did it, and then apply Christ to our own life provides a hope for healing that wasn’t available before.


5. Romans 8:26–27 (NLT)

“And the Holy Spirit helps us in our weakness. For example, we don’t know what God wants us to pray for. But the Holy Spirit prays for us with groanings that cannot be expressed in words. And the Father who knows all hearts knows what the Spirit is saying, for the Spirit pleads for us believers in harmony with God’s own will.”

Questions to Ask:

  • How is “The Father who knows all hearts” both comforting and challenging to us?
  • What difference should this make in our decision-making, relationships, and day-to-day challenges?

Thoughts:

Vulnerability can be a frightening thing, but it can also be extremely freeing. For me thinking through the concept of me being completely known, but yet completely loved is life changing. I think many people can come to this with an experience of limited love, which if we’re being honest is most human relationships. Very, very, few relationships with other people involve true unconditional love.

To think that my creator, who know not only past weaknesses, but also future weaknesses chooses to love me fully gives me a new ability to invest in people in a new way. It inspires me to at least try to invest in relationships unconditionally, even though I fall short. When that is my goal is changes the daily activities I choose to participate in, it has to. If it didn’t have a true impact on the daily choices I made it wouldn’t actually be a goal, it would be a dream. It would be a dream that I would have no hopes of actually realizing. However, because of the example that Christ set I have a great path of how to take daily steps toward the goal I’m aiming for.


Final Thoughts on Healing in Romans

Throughout Romans, we see that healing—whether physical, emotional, or spiritual—centers on our relationship with Jesus. His peace frees us from condemnation, His Spirit empowers us, and His example guides us through hardship into hope. We can rejoice in trials, knowing they foster growth and endurance. Our past no longer defines us, and our future is secure in God’s love. Ultimately, these truths invite us to trust Christ fully, allowing His Spirit to transform our weaknesses into renewed strength and wholeness.

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