Bible Verses About Witchcraft
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for witchcraft, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 24,042 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 Witchcraft
Leviticus 19:311,118 votes
Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the Lord your God.
Exodus 22:181,022 votes
Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.
Leviticus 20:27823 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.
Revelation 21:8774 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.
Leviticus 20:6714 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 Samuel 15:23705 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.
Galatians 5:19-21699 votes
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
2 Chronicles 33:6590 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.
Revelation 22:15560 votes
For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
Isaiah 8:19525 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?
Deuteronomy 18:9-12494 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.
Acts 19:19479 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.
Micah 5:12436 votes
And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thine hand; and thou shalt have no more soothsayers:
Deuteronomy 18:10415 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,
1 Chronicles 10:13-14390 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;
2 Kings 21:6374 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 5:20339 votes
Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
Leviticus 19:26336 votes
Ye shall not eat any thing with the blood: neither shall ye use enchantment, nor observe times.
Galatians 5:20-21314 votes
Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
Revelation 18:23301 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.
Isaiah 47:8-14281 votes
Therefore hear now this, thou that art given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children:
Deuteronomy 18:9-14275 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 Chronicles 10:13254 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;
Deuteronomy 18:14249 votes
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.
Isaiah 19:3239 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.
What does the Bible say about witchcraft?
Readers most often cite Leviticus 19:31 on the subject of witchcraft. Across 24,042 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Exodus 22:18, Leviticus 20:27, Revelation 21:8. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.