Bible Verses About Sorcery
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for sorcery, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 2,121 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 Sorcery
Leviticus 19:31155 votes
Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the Lord your God.
Exodus 22:18123 votes
Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.
Galatians 5:19-21111 votes
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
Isaiah 8:19105 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 20:674 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.
Galatians 5:2067 votes
Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
Ezekiel 13:6-963 votes
They have seen vanity and lying divination, saying, The Lord saith: and the Lord hath not sent them: and they have made others to hope that they would confirm the word.
Leviticus 20:2762 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.
2 Chronicles 33:656 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.
Acts 8:955 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:
2 Thessalonians 2:954 votes
Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
1 Chronicles 10:1353 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;
1 Samuel 15:2351 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.
Ephesians 5:1149 votes
And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.
Revelation 18:2349 votes
And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.
Daniel 2:2746 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 5:1242 votes
And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thine hand; and thou shalt have no more soothsayers:
Zechariah 10:236 votes
For the idols have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain: therefore they went their way as a flock, they were troubled, because there was no shepherd.
Isaiah 19:334 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.
2 Kings 21:633 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.
Galatians 5:20-2132 votes
Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
Revelation 21:830 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.
Isaiah 47:9-1329 votes
But these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood: they shall come upon thee in their perfection for the multitude of thy sorceries, and for the great abundance of thine enchantments.
Leviticus 19:26-2827 votes
Ye shall not eat any thing with the blood: neither shall ye use enchantment, nor observe times.
Deuteronomy 18:1127 votes
Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
What does the Bible say about sorcery?
Readers most often cite Leviticus 19:31 on the subject of sorcery. Across 2,121 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Exodus 22:18, Galatians 5:19-21, Isaiah 8:19. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.