Bible Verses about “praying to the dead”

“Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.”

“"'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.”

“There 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,”

“Don't you know that you are a temple of God, and that God's Spirit lives in you?”

“or a charmer, or a consulter with a familiar spirit, or a wizard, or a necromancer.”

“Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For yours is the Kingdom, the power, and the glory forever. Amen.'”

“Forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors.”

“Let your Kingdom come. Let your will be done, as in heaven, so on earth.”

“Give us today our daily bread.”

“Pray like this: 'Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy.”

“If anyone destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him; for God's temple is holy, which you are.”

“Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,”

“For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,”

“you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,”

“"You shall not make for yourselves an idol, nor any image of anything that is in the heavens above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:”

“When 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?”

“Therefore he says, "When he ascended on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts to men."”

“Now this, "He ascended," what is it but that he also first descended into the lower parts of the earth?”

“He who descended is the one who also ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.”

“There is salvation in none other, for neither is there any other name under heaven, that is given among men, by which we must be saved!"”

“No one has ascended into heaven, but he who descended out of heaven, the Son of Man, who is in heaven.”

“who gave himself as a ransom for all; the testimony in its own times;”

“For the living know that they will die, but the dead don't know anything, neither do they have any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.”

“For no one can lay any other foundation than that which has been laid, which is Jesus Christ.”

“If any man's work is burned, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, but as through fire.”

“each man's work will be revealed. For the Day will declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself will test what sort of work each man's work is.”

“If any man's work remains which he built on it, he will receive a reward.”

“But if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, or stubble;”

“For we are God's fellow workers. You are God's farming, God's building.”

“so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, without sin, to those who are eagerly waiting for him for salvation.”

“Now when he had taken the book, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each one having a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.”

“for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, aren't you fleshly, and don't you walk in the ways of men?”

“I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase.”

“Turn to the law and to the testimony! If they don't speak according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.”

“So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.”

“Also their love, their hatred, and their envy has perished long ago; neither have they any more a portion forever in anything that is done under the sun.”

“Now he who plants and he who waters are the same, but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.”

“Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks that he is wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.”

“I fed you with milk, not with meat; for you weren't yet ready. Indeed, not even now are you ready,”

“According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another builds on it. But let each man be careful how he builds on it.”

“Brothers, I couldn't speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ.”

“'I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?' God is not the God of the dead, but of the living."”

“For when one says, "I follow Paul," and another, "I follow Apollos," aren't you fleshly?”

“Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but servants through whom you believed; and each as the Lord gave to him?”

“And again, "The Lord knows the reasoning of the wise, that it is worthless."”

“whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come. All are yours,”

“They will pass through it, very distressed and hungry; and it will happen that when they are hungry, they will worry, and curse by their king and by their God. They will turn their faces upward,”

“For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, "He has taken the wise in their craftiness."”

“Therefore let no one boast in men. For all things are yours,”

“and you are Christ's, and Christ is God's.”