Bible Verses About Magic
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for magic, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 8,320 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 Magic
Leviticus 19:31463 votes
Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the Lord your God.
Revelation 21:8395 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 18:10-12324 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,
Exodus 22:18323 votes
Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.
2 Kings 21:6311 votes
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.
Acts 19:19265 votes
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.
Galatians 5:19-21233 votes
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
1 John 4:1233 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.
Leviticus 20:27211 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.
Isaiah 8:19191 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?
2 Chronicles 33:6183 votes
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.
Leviticus 20:6181 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.
Acts 8:9-13181 votes
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:
Leviticus 19:26177 votes
Ye shall not eat any thing with the blood: neither shall ye use enchantment, nor observe times.
Micah 5:12176 votes
And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thine hand; and thou shalt have no more soothsayers:
Revelation 22:15176 votes
For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
Colossians 2:8138 votes
Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
Ezekiel 13:20123 votes
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.
Isaiah 47:12-14120 votes
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.
Deuteronomy 18:9-14114 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.
Exodus 7:11101 votes
Then Pharaoh also called the wise men and the sorcerers: now the magicians of Egypt, they also did in like manner with their enchantments.
Deuteronomy 18:1099 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 19:391 votes
And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.
1 Samuel 15:2387 votes
For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the Lord, he hath also rejected thee from being king.
Ezekiel 13:1882 votes
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?
What does the Bible say about magic?
Readers most often cite Leviticus 19:31 on the subject of magic. Across 8,320 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Revelation 21:8, Deuteronomy 18:10-12, Exodus 22:18. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.