Bible Verses About Witches
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for witches, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 19,708 votes, led by Exodus 22:18. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Witches
Exodus 22:18686 votes
Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.
Leviticus 20:27554 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.
Leviticus 19:31527 votes
Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the Lord your God.
Revelation 21:8491 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.
Galatians 5:19-21459 votes
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
1 Samuel 15:23385 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.
Revelation 22:15368 votes
For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
Deuteronomy 18:9-14352 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.
2 Chronicles 33:6347 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 20:6319 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.
2 Kings 21:6306 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.
1 Chronicles 10:13-14283 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 18:9-12269 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 10:13269 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;
Leviticus 19:26267 votes
Ye shall not eat any thing with the blood: neither shall ye use enchantment, nor observe times.
Micah 5:12264 votes
And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thine hand; and thou shalt have no more soothsayers:
1 John 4:1253 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 13:8-10250 votes
But Elymas the sorcerer (for so is his name by interpretation) withstood them, seeking to turn away the deputy from the faith.
Deuteronomy 18:10247 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,
Acts 19:18-20245 votes
And many that believed came, and confessed, and shewed their deeds.
Acts 16:16240 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:
Isaiah 8:19238 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?
Acts 19:19236 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.
Revelation 18:23230 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.
2 Corinthians 11:14228 votes
And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.
What does the Bible say about witches?
Readers most often cite Exodus 22:18 on the subject of witches. Across 19,708 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Leviticus 20:27, Leviticus 19:31, Revelation 21:8. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.