Bible Verses about βwitchcraftβ
The Bible contains 21 verses about witchcraft across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
βEnvyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told [you] in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.β
βNow the works of the flesh are manifest, which are [these]; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,β
βIdolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,β
βRegard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I [am] the LORD your God.β
ββΉBut the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.βΊβ
βThere shall not be found among you [any one] that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, [or] that useth divination, [or] an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch,β
βOr a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.β
βFor all that do these things [are] an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee.β
βAnd the soul that turneth after such as have familiar spirits, and after wizards, to go a whoring after them, I will even set my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people.β
βΒΆ When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.β
βAnd when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead?β
βThou shalt not suffer a witch to live.β
βA man also or woman that hath a familiar spirit, or that is a wizard, shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them with stones: their blood [shall be] upon them.β
βAnd he made his son pass through the fire, and observed times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards: he wrought much wickedness in the sight of the LORD, to provoke [him] to anger.β
βSo Saul died for his transgression which he committed against the LORD, [even] against the word of the LORD, which he kept not, and also for asking [counsel] of [one that had] a familiar spirit, to enquire [of it];β
βMany of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all [men]: and they counted the price of them, and found [it] fifty thousand [pieces] of silver.β
βFor without [are] dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.β
βAnd enquired not of the LORD: therefore he slew him, and turned the kingdom unto David the son of Jesse.β
βAnd 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.β
βFor rebellion [is as] the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness [is as] iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from [being] king.β
βAnd I will cut off witchcrafts out of thine hand; and thou shalt have no [more] soothsayers:β
