18 Bible Verses About Witchcraft, and the Reason Scripture Gives for Forbidding It

Christian Pure Team

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Zusammenfassung

  • Scripture bans witchcraft not because the practices are empty but because they seek knowledge and power from somewhere other than God — Isaiah 8:19 puts the whole objection in one question.
  • Deuteronomy 18:10-12 names specific trades, each a recognised paid service in the ancient Near East.
  • Exodus 22:18 in the King James was quoted at the European witch trials; it is a criminal statute given to one covenant nation with its own courts, not a licence for private citizens.
  • Exodus 7 does not say the Egyptian magicians failed — it says Aaron’s staff swallowed theirs. Scripture treats rival power as outmatched rather than imaginary.
  • Ephesians 6:12 rules out the neighbour as the enemy, which is the clause every witch hunt forgot.

Scripture forbids witchcraft, and the reason it gives is not that the practices are empty. It is that they are a way of getting knowledge and power from somewhere other than God. That thread runs through every passage below, and Isaiah puts the whole objection in one question: should not a people inquire of their God? Eighteen passages follow, arranged as the subject falls — the law and its list, the one long story, what the New Testament says, how…

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Scripture quotations are from the New International Version; Exodus 22:18 is also given in the King James Version where that rendering is discussed.

Modern translations render the Hebrew of Exodus 22:18 as “sorceress” (NIV, ESV, NASB). Whether the King James “witch” is a fair rendering is disputed among scholars; what is not disputed is that the verse was cited during the early modern witch trials.

Supporting detail from the text: Saul had expelled the mediums himself (1 Samuel 28:3); Manasseh’s practices repeat the Deuteronomy 18 list (2 Kings 21:6); Elijah’s fire from heaven, echoed in Revelation 13:13, is at 1 Kings 18:38.

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