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21 KJV Bible Verses About Sorcery

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Summary

  • Deuteronomy 18:10-11 lists nine forbidden practices, from passing a child through the fire to consulting the dead, and Deuteronomy 18:12 gives them as the reason the nations were driven out.
  • Leviticus 20:6 sets God’s face against the person who consults mediums, and Leviticus 20:27 orders the medium or wizard stoned.
  • Manasseh practised six of the things Deuteronomy 18 forbids (2 Chronicles 33:6), and later in the same chapter he humbled himself and was brought back to Jerusalem.
  • In Acts, Simon of Samaria was baptized after practising sorcery, Elymas was struck blind for opposing Paul, and believers at Ephesus burned books of magic worth fifty thousand pieces of silver.
  • In Galatians 5:20, witchcraft translates pharmakeia, which Strong’s defines first as the use of drugs, potions and enchantments, then poisoning, and by extension the occult and witchcraft.

The Bible forbids sorcery. The Law counts it among the abominations of the nations (Deuteronomy 18:10-12), the prophets charge Babylon and Nineveh with it (Isaiah 47:12; Nahum 3:4), and Paul lists witchcraft among the works of the flesh (Galatians 5:19-21). The King James Version uses several English words for the practice: witch, witchcraft, sorcerer, enchanter, wizard, and those that have “familiar spirits”. The Acts of the Apostles shows the practice in three encounters: Simon in Samaria, Elymas at Paphos, and…

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Scripture quotations are from the King James Version.

Strong’s Hebrew 3784, כָּשַׁף (kashaph): to practise sorcery, to use witchcraft; used in Exodus 7:11, Exodus 22:18 and Deuteronomy 18:10. biblehub.com/hebrew/3784

Strong’s Greek 3096, μαγεύω (mageuo): to practise magic; Acts 8:9. biblehub.com/greek/3096

Strong’s Greek 3097, μάγος (magos): a magician; used of Elymas in Acts 13:8. biblehub.com/greek/3097

Strong’s Greek 4021, περίεργος (periergos): in Acts 19:19, magic arts, rendered “curious arts” in the KJV. biblehub.com/greek/4021

Strong’s Greek 5331, φαρμακεία (pharmakeia): the use of drugs, potions and enchantments; poisoning; by extension, the occult and witchcraft. biblehub.com/greek/5331

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