Bible Verses Against Witchcraft, Sorcery And Occult Practices
Below are 50 Bible verses that speak out against witchcraft, sorcery, and other forms of occult practices, and warn the Israelites to stay away from the evils associated with them:
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1. Exodus 22:18
"You shall not permit a sorceress to live."
2. Leviticus 19:26
"You shall not eat anything with the blood, nor shall you practice divination or soothsaying."
3. Leviticus 20:6
"And the person who turns to mediums and familiar spirits, to prostitute himself with them, I will set My face against that person and cut him off from his people."
4. Leviticus 20:27
"A man or a woman who is a medium or a spiritist among you must be put to death. You are to stone them; their blood will be on their own heads."
5. Deuteronomy 18:10-12
"There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, one who practices witchcraft, or a soothsayer, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer, or one who casts a spell, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead. For whoever does these things is detestable to the LORD."
6. Deuteronomy 18:14
"For these nations which you will dispossess, listen to soothsayers and diviners; but as for you, the LORD your God has not appointed such for you."
7. 1 Samuel 28:7
"Then Saul said to his servants, 'Find me a woman who is a medium, that I may go to her and inquire of her.' And his servants said to him, 'In fact, there is a woman who is a medium at Endor.'"
8. 1 Samuel 28:9
"But the woman said to him, 'Look, you know what Saul has done, how he has cut off the mediums and the spiritists from the land. Why then do you lay a snare for my life, to cause me to die?'"
9. 2 Kings 21:6
"He made his son pass through the fire, practiced soothsaying, used witchcraft and consulted spiritists and mediums. He did much evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke Him to anger."
10. 2 Kings 23:24
"Moreover, Josiah put away those who consulted mediums and the spiritists, the household gods and idols, and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, that he might perform the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the LORD."
11. 2 Chronicles 33:6
"And he caused his sons to pass through the fire in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom; he practiced soothsaying, used witchcraft and sorcery, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did much evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke Him to anger."
12. 2 Chronicles 34:33
"And Josiah removed all the abominations from all the country that belonged to the children of Israel, and made all who were present in Israel diligently serve the LORD their God. All his days they did not depart from following the LORD God of their fathers."
13. Isaiah 8:19
"And when they say to you, 'Seek those who are mediums and wizards, who whisper and mutter,' should not a people seek their God? Should they seek the dead on behalf of the living?"
14. Isaiah 47:9
"But these two things shall come to you in a moment, in one day: the loss of children and widowhood; they shall come upon you in their fullness, because of the multitude of your sorceries, for the great abundance of your enchantments."
15. Isaiah 47:12
"Stand now with your enchantments and the multitude of your sorceries, in which you have labored from your youth; perhaps you will be able to profit, perhaps you will prevail."
16. Isaiah 47:13
"You are wearied in the multitude of your counsels; let now the astrologers, the stargazers, and the monthly prognosticators stand up and save you from what shall come upon you."
17. Jeremiah 27:9
"Therefore do not listen to your prophets, your diviners, your dreamers, your soothsayers, or your sorcerers, who speak to you, saying, 'You shall not serve the king of Babylon.'"
18. Jeremiah 29:8
"For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: 'Do not let your prophets and your diviners who are in your midst deceive you, nor listen to your dreams which you cause to be dreamed.'"
19. Ezekiel 13:18
"Thus says the Lord GOD: 'Woe to the women who sew magic charms on their sleeves and make veils for the heads of people of all ages to hunt souls! Will you hunt the souls of My people and keep yourselves alive?"
20. Ezekiel 13:20
"Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: 'Behold, I am against your magic charms by which you hunt souls there like birds. I will tear them from your arms, and let the souls go, the souls you hunt like birds.'"
21. Daniel 2:2
"Then the king commanded that the magicians, the astrologers, the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans be called to tell the king his dreams. So they came and stood before the king."
22. Daniel 2:27
"Daniel answered in the presence of the king, and said, 'The secret which the king has demanded, the wise men, the astrologers, the magicians, and the soothsayers cannot declare to the king.'"
23. Daniel 4:7
"Then the magicians, the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers came in, and I told them the dream; but they did not make known to me its interpretation."
24. Daniel 5:7
"The king cried aloud to bring in the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. The king spoke, saying to the wise men of Babylon, 'Whoever reads this writing and tells me its interpretation, shall be clothed with purple and have a chain of gold around his neck; and he shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.'"
25. Micah 5:12
"I will cut off sorceries from your hand, and you shall have no soothsayers."
26. Nahum 3:4
"Because of the multitude of harlotries of the seductive harlot, the mistress of sorceries, who sells nations through her harlotries, and families through her sorceries."
27. Malachi 3:5
"And I will come near you for judgment; I will be a swift witness against sorcerers, against adulterers, against perjurers, against those who exploit wage earners and widows and orphans, and against those who turn away an alien—because they do not fear Me,' says the LORD of hosts."
28. 1 Chronicles 10:13
"So Saul died for his unfaithfulness which he had committed against the LORD, because he did not keep the word of the LORD, and also because he consulted a medium for guidance."
29. 2 Kings 17:17
"And they caused their sons and daughters to pass through the fire, practiced witchcraft and soothsaying, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke Him to anger."
30. 2 Kings 21:6
"He made his son pass through the fire, practiced soothsaying, used witchcraft and consulted spiritists and mediums. He did much evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke Him to anger."
31. Isaiah 19:3
"The spirit of Egypt will fail in its midst; I will destroy their counsel, and they will consult the idols and the charmers, the mediums and the sorcerers."
32. Leviticus 26:30
"I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and cast your carcasses on the lifeless forms of your idols; and My soul shall abhor you."
33. Isaiah 44:25
"Who frustrates the signs of the babblers, and drives diviners mad; who turns wise men backward, and makes their knowledge foolishness."
34. Isaiah 47:1-3
"Come down and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground without a throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans; for you shall no longer be called tender and delicate. Take the millstones and grind flour; remove your veil, take off the skirt, uncover the thigh, pass through the rivers. Your nakedness shall be uncovered, yes, your shame will be seen; I will take vengeance, and I will not arbitrate with a man."
35. Isaiah 8:19
"And when they say to you, 'Seek those who are mediums and wizards, who whisper and mutter,' should not a people seek their God? Should they seek the dead on behalf of the living?"
36. 2 Kings 17:16
"So they left all the commandments of the LORD their God, made for themselves a molded image and two calves, made a wooden image and worshiped all the host of heaven, and served Baal."
37. Isaiah 47:8
"Therefore hear this now, you who are given to pleasures, who dwell securely, who say in your heart, 'I am, and there is no one else besides me; I shall not sit as a widow, nor shall I know the loss of children.'"
38. Micah 3:6
"Therefore night shall be unto you, that ye shall not have a vision; and it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not divine; and the sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them."
39. Zephaniah 1:4-5
"I will stretch out My hand against Judah, and against all the inhabitants of Jerusalem. I will cut off every trace of Baal from this place, the names of the idolatrous priests with the pagan priests—those who worship the host of heaven on the housetops, those who worship and swear oaths by the LORD, but who also swear by Milcom."
40. Jeremiah 10:2
"Thus says the LORD: 'Do not learn the way of the Gentiles; do not be dismayed at the signs of heaven, for the Gentiles are dismayed at them.'"
41. Jeremiah 14:14
"And the LORD said to me, 'The prophets prophesy lies in My name. I have not sent them, I have not commanded them, nor spoken to them; they prophesy to you a false vision, divination, a worthless thing, and the deceit of their heart.'"
42. Jeremiah 23:14
"Also I have seen a horrible thing in the prophets of Jerusalem: They commit adultery and walk in lies; they also strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that no one turns back from his wickedness. All of them are like Sodom to Me, and her inhabitants like Gomorrah."
43. Ezekiel 13:22
"Because with lies you have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I have not made sad; and you have strengthened the hands of the wicked, so that he does not turn from his wicked way to save his life."
44. Ezekiel 22:25-26
"The conspiracy of her prophets in her midst is like a roaring lion tearing the prey; they have devoured lives; they have taken treasure and precious things; they have made many widows in her midst. Her priests have violated My law and profaned My holy things; they have not distinguished between the holy and unholy, nor have they made known the difference between the unclean and the clean; and they have hidden their eyes from My Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them."
45. Zechariah 10:2
"For the idols speak delusion; the diviners envision lies, and tell false dreams; they comfort in vain; therefore the people wander like sheep; they are in trouble because there is no shepherd."
46. Isaiah 8:19-20
"And when they say to you, 'Seek those who are mediums and wizards, who whisper and mutter,' should not a people seek their God? Should they seek the dead on behalf of the living? To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it is because there is no light in them."
47. Jeremiah 27:9
"Therefore do not listen to your prophets, your diviners, your dreamers, your soothsayers, or your sorcerers, who speak to you, saying, 'You shall not serve the king of Babylon.'"
48. Isaiah 47:1-3
"Come down and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground without a throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans; for you shall no longer be called tender and delicate. Take the millstones and grind flour; remove your veil, take off the skirt, uncover the thigh, pass through the rivers. Your nakedness shall be uncovered, yes, your shame will be seen; I will take vengeance, and I will not arbitrate with a man."
49. 2 Kings 21:2
"And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, according to the abominations of the nations whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel."
50. 1 Chronicles 10:13
"So Saul died for his unfaithfulness which he had committed against the LORD, because he did not keep the word of the LORD, and also because he consulted a medium for guidance."
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These 50 verses strongly warn against witchcraft, sorcery, and other occult practices, and emphasize the importance of staying faithful to the God of Israel. These scriptures not only urge the Israelites to avoid such practices but also to stay loyal to God's commandments and not to turn to the dark arts for guidance or power.