BY HIS STRIPES WE ARE HEALED

The claim that it is not God’s will for his followers to be sick, but to have perfect health is based on Isaiah 53:4–6: 4.
“Yet it was our infirmities that he bore, our sufferings that he endured, While we thought of him as stricken, as one smitten by God and afflicted.
But he was pierced for our offenses, crushed for our sins, Upon him was the chastisement that makes us whole, by his stripes we were healed.
We had all gone astray like sheep, each following his own way; But the LORD laid upon him the guilt of us all.”
Except "by his stripes we are healed" is not a reference to bodily healing. This passage simply alludes to the nature of our redemption: the Savior will suffer and die. So here the word “healed” means redeemed.
