Bible Verses About Soothsayers
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for soothsayers, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 1,581 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 Soothsayers
Leviticus 19:3199 votes
Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 18:9-1290 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.
1 John 4:189 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.
Acts 16:1670 votes
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:
Leviticus 19:2661 votes
Ye shall not eat any thing with the blood: neither shall ye use enchantment, nor observe times.
Daniel 2:27-2854 votes
Daniel answered in the presence of the king, and said, The secret which the king hath demanded cannot the wise men, the astrologers, the magicians, the soothsayers, shew unto the king;
Micah 5:1253 votes
And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thine hand; and thou shalt have no more soothsayers:
Deuteronomy 18:9-1452 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.
Revelation 21:850 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.
Acts 8:9-1345 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:
Isaiah 47:13-1544 votes
Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from these things that shall come upon thee.
2 Corinthians 11:1442 votes
And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.
1 Samuel 15:2341 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 13:334 votes
Thus saith the Lord God; Woe unto the foolish prophets, that follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!
Micah 1:1-1634 votes
The word of the Lord that came to Micah the Morasthite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.
Leviticus 20:632 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 Chronicles 10:1332 votes
So Saul died for his transgression which he committed against the Lord, even against the word of the Lord, which he kept not, and also for asking counsel of one that had a familiar spirit, to enquire of it;
Revelation 9:2132 votes
Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.
Deuteronomy 18:931 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 27:130 votes
In that day the Lord with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.
James 1:2730 votes
Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
Daniel 2:2727 votes
Daniel answered in the presence of the king, and said, The secret which the king hath demanded cannot the wise men, the astrologers, the magicians, the soothsayers, shew unto the king;
Isaiah 8:1926 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 20:2723 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.
Isaiah 2:623 votes
Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers.
What does the Bible say about soothsayers?
Readers most often cite Leviticus 19:31 on the subject of soothsayers. Across 1,581 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Deuteronomy 18:9-12, 1 John 4:1, Acts 16:16. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.