Bible Verses About Contacting the Dead
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for contacting the dead, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 1,445 votes, led by Leviticus 19:31. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Contacting the Dead
Leviticus 19:31147 votes
Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 18:9-14116 votes
When thou art come into the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.
Isaiah 8:19102 votes
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?
Leviticus 20:687 votes
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.
1 Timothy 4:179 votes
Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
Ecclesiastes 9:573 votes
For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.
2 Corinthians 11:1459 votes
And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.
Psalms 115:1756 votes
The dead praise not the Lord, neither any that go down into silence.
1 John 4:151 votes
Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
Psalms 146:447 votes
His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.
1 Timothy 2:533 votes
For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
Hebrews 9:2731 votes
And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
Revelation 16:1428 votes
For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.
Deuteronomy 18:1027 votes
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,
Isaiah 8:2027 votes
To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
Deuteronomy 18:11-1225 votes
Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
Matthew 22:3225 votes
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.
Revelation 21:825 votes
But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
Deuteronomy 18:1124 votes
Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
Leviticus 20:2723 votes
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.
1 John 4:1-323 votes
Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
Exodus 22:1820 votes
Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.
Ecclesiastes 9:5-620 votes
For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.
John 3:1620 votes
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
James 2:1920 votes
Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.
What does the Bible say about contacting the dead?
Readers most often cite Leviticus 19:31 on the subject of contacting the dead. Across 1,445 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Deuteronomy 18:9-14, Isaiah 8:19, Leviticus 20:6. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.