Bible Verses about โfortune tellers and psychicsโ
The Bible contains 26 verses about fortune tellers and psychics across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
โBeloved, don't believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.โ
โ"'Don't turn to those who are mediums, nor to the wizards. Don't seek them out, to be defiled by them. I am Yahweh your God.โ
โBut for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death."โ
โThere shall not be found with you anyone who makes his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, one who uses divination, one who practices sorcery, or an enchanter, or a sorcerer,โ
โor a charmer, or a consulter with a familiar spirit, or a wizard, or a necromancer.โ
โFor whoever does these things is an abomination to Yahweh: and because of these abominations Yahweh your God does drive them out from before you.โ
โ"'The person that turns to those who are mediums, and to the wizards, to play the prostitute after them, I will even set my face against that person, and will cut him off from among his people.โ
โWhen you are come into the land which Yahweh your God gives you, you shall not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.โ
โWhen they tell you, "Consult with those who have familiar spirits and with the wizards, who chirp and who mutter:" shouldn't a people consult with their God? Should they consult the dead on behalf of the living?โ
โYou shall be perfect with Yahweh your God.โ
โ"You shall not allow a sorceress to live.โ
โ"'A man or a woman that is a medium, or is a wizard, shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them with stones; their blood shall be upon them.'"โ
โand every spirit who doesn't confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God, and this is the spirit of the Antichrist, of whom you have heard that it comes. Now it is in the world already.โ
โBy this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit who confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God,โ
โHe made his son to pass through the fire, and practiced sorcery, and used enchantments, and dealt with those who had familiar spirits, and with wizards: he worked much evil in the sight of Yahweh, to provoke him to anger.โ
โIt happened, as we were going to prayer, that a certain girl having a spirit of divination met us, who brought her masters much gain by fortune telling.โ
โSo Saul died for his trespass which he committed against Yahweh, because of the word of Yahweh, which he didn't keep; and also because he asked counsel of one who had a familiar spirit, to inquire [thereby],โ
โShe was doing this for many days. But Paul, becoming greatly annoyed, turned and said to the spirit, "I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her!" It came out that very hour.โ
โOutside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.โ
โFollowing Paul and us, she cried out, "These men are servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to us a way of salvation!"โ
โand didn't inquire of Yahweh: therefore he killed him, and turned the kingdom to David the son of Jesse.โ
โDaniel answered before the king, and said, The secret which the king has demanded can neither wise men, enchanters, magicians, nor soothsayers, show to the king;โ
โwhen a prophet speaks in the name of Yahweh, if the thing doesn't follow, nor happen, that is the thing which Yahweh has not spoken: the prophet has spoken it presumptuously, you shall not be afraid of him.โ
โBut the prophet, who shall speak a word presumptuously in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or who shall speak in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die."โ
โIf you say in your heart, "How shall we know the word which Yahweh has not spoken?"โ
โBut when her masters saw that the hope of their gain was gone, they seized Paul and Silas, and dragged them into the marketplace before the rulers.โ
