Bible Verses about โspiritualismโ
The Bible contains 27 verses about spiritualism 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
โInasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,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
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
โBut false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.โ
โWe know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.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
โBehold, I give you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy. Nothing will in any way hurt you.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
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
โHe said to them, "I saw Satan having fallen like lightning from heaven.โ
โNevertheless, don't rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven."โ
โThe dead don't praise Yah, neither any who go down into silence;โ
โTurn to the law and to the testimony! If they don't speak according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.โ
โThe seventy returned with joy, saying, "Lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name!"โ
โAlso 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.โ
โNow Samuel was dead, and all Israel had lamented him, and buried him in Ramah, even in his own city. Saul had put away those who had familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land.โ
