Bible Verses about “out of body experiences”
The Bible contains 45 verses about out of body experiences across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost [which is] in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?”
“For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.”
“¶ Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.”
“¶ The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified [it] by his angel unto his servant John:”
“¶ ‹Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?›”
“‹And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am,› [there] ‹ye may be also.›”
“‹God› [is] ‹a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship› [him] ‹in spirit and in truth.›”
“‹And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.›”
“For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.”
“¶ For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also [is] Christ.”
“For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether [we be] Jews or Gentiles, whether [we be] bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.”
“And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.”
“But now [are they] many members, yet but one body.”
“For the body is not one member, but many.”
“¶ Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.”
“Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary:”
“And those [members] of the body, which we think to be less honourable, upon these we bestow more abundant honour; and our uncomely [parts] have more abundant comeliness.”
“And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues.”
“But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.”
“For our comely [parts] have no need: but God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that [part] which lacked:”
“And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.”
“That there should be no schism in the body; but [that] the members should have the same care one for another.”
“If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?”
“And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?”
“If the whole body [were] an eye, where [were] the hearing? If the whole [were] hearing, where [were] the smelling?”
“And if they were all one member, where [were] the body?”
“Have all the gifts of healing? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret?”
“But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal.”
“For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;”
“To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit;”
“To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another [divers] kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues:”
“[Are] all apostles? [are] all prophets? [are] all teachers? [are] all workers of miracles?”
“Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.”
“But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.”
“But covet earnestly the best gifts: and yet shew I unto you a more excellent way.”
“And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all.”
“And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord.”
“And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom: also he observed times, and used enchantments, and used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit, and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.”
“¶ Now concerning spiritual [gifts], brethren, I would not have you ignorant.”
“Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, even as ye were led.”
“Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed: and [that] no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost.”
“I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.”
“How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.”
“And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;)”
“¶ After this I looked, and, behold, a door [was] opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard [was] as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter.”