Bible Verses About Magic And Divination

There 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.

Primary Torah prohibition.

Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.

Lists related forbidden spiritistic practices

And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thine hand; and thou shalt have no more soothsayers:

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divination met us, which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying:

Direct divination spirit in Acts.

For these nations, which thou shalt possess, hearkened unto observers of times, and unto diviners: but as for thee, the LORD thy God hath not suffered thee so to do.

Says the nations listen to fortune-tellers, but Israel must not

Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

A 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.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

And 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.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

Then the king commanded to call the magicians, and the astrologers, and the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans, for to shew the king his dreams. So they came and stood before the king.

Shows pagan magicians summoned against a dream they cannot explain.

And to him they had regard, because that of long time he had bewitched them with sorceries.

Simon bewitched the people with sorceries

Then Pharaoh also called the wise men and the sorcerers: now the magicians of Egypt, they also did in like manner with their enchantments.

Egyptian magicians are a classic biblical example.

Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.

Strong law text against sorcery

The captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counsellor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

And 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.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

Many 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.

Shows Christians turning from magic in Acts.

For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination: he made his arrows bright, he consulted with images, he looked in the liver.

King uses divination by arrows and liver reading.

And 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?

Warns against mediums and necromancers

And 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.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

Ye shall not eat any thing with the blood: neither shall ye use enchantment, nor observe times.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the women that sew pillows to all armholes, and make kerchiefs upon the head of every stature to hunt souls! Will ye hunt the souls of my people, and will ye save the souls alive that come unto you?

Magic charms are condemned in Ezekiel.

Wherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against your pillows, wherewith ye there hunt the souls to make them fly, and I will tear them from your arms, and will let the souls go, even the souls that ye hunt to make them fly.

God opposes the magic charms directly.

But Elymas the sorcerer (for so is his name by interpretation) withstood them, seeking to turn away the deputy from the faith.

Magician in Acts blocks the faith.

Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God.

Mediums and necromancers are rejected in Scripture.

But there was a certain man, called Simon, which beforetime in the same city used sorcery, and bewitched the people of Samaria, giving out that himself was some great one:

Simon’s sorcery is a direct biblical example.