Bible Verses about โmysticismโ
The Bible contains 28 verses about mysticism across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
โenvyings, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the Kingdom of God.โ
โNow the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,โ
โidolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies,โ
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
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
โBe careful that you don't let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ.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
โI have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.โ
โFor there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,โ
โAnd no wonder, for even Satan masquerades as an angel of light.โ
โJesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.โ
โBut the Spirit says expressly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons,โ
โHowever when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you things that are coming.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
โFor no prophecy ever came by the will of man: but holy men of God spoke, being moved by the Holy Spirit.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
โNow the natural man doesn't receive the things of God's Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can't know them, because they are spiritually discerned.โ
โseeing that his divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and virtue;โ
โWhich things also we speak, not in words which man's wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things.โ
โ"For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct him?" But we have Christ's mind.โ
โby which he has granted to us his precious and exceedingly great promises; that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust.โ
โBut he who is spiritual discerns all things, and he himself is judged by no one.โ
โI know a man in Christ, fourteen years ago (whether in the body, I don't know, or whether out of the body, I don't know; God knows), such a one caught up into the third heaven.โ
โhow he was caught up into Paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.โ
โI know such a man (whether in the body, or outside of the body, I don't know; God knows),โ
โDon't be carried away by various and strange teachings, for it is good that the heart be established by grace, not by food, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.โ
โBut we received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we might know the things that were freely given to us by God.โ
