LEVITICUS 19:26-28, 31
26 'You shall not ...practice divination or soothsaying.
28 'You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead,
nor tattoo any marks on you: I am the LORD.
31 'Give no regard to mediums and familiar spirits; do not seek
after them, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God.
LEVITICUS 20:6-8
6 '...the person who turns to mediums and familiar spirits, to
prostitute himself with them, I will set My face against that
person and cut him off from his people.
7 'Consecrate yourselves therefore, and be holy, for I am the
LORD your God.
8 'And you shall keep My statutes, and perform them: I am the
LORD who sanctifies you.
LEVITICUS 20:26-27
26 '...you shall be holy to Me, for I the LORD am holy, and have
separated you from the peoples, that you should be Mine.
27 'A man or a woman who is a medium, or who has familiar spirits,
shall surely be put to death; they shall stone them with stones.
Their blood shall be upon them.'"
DEUTERONOMY 13:1-5
1 "If there arises among you a prophet or a dreamer of dreams,
and he gives you a sign or a wonder,
2 "and the sign or the wonder comes to pass, of which he spoke
to you, saying, 'Let us go after other gods'-- which you have
not known--' and let us serve them,'
3 "you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer
of dreams, for the LORD your God is testing you to know whether
you love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your
soul.
4 "You shall walk after the LORD your God and fear Him, and keep
His commandments and obey His voice, and you shall serve Him and
hold fast to Him.
5 "But that prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to
death, because he has spoken in order to turn you away from the
LORD your God...
DEUTERONOMY 18:9-15
9 "When you come into the land which the LORD your God is giving
you, you shall not learn to follow the abominations of those nations.
10 "There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son
or his daughter pass through the fire, or one who practices witchcraft,
or a soothsayer, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer,
11 "or one who conjures spells, or a medium, or a spiritist, or
one who calls up the dead.
12 "For all who do these things are an abomination to the LORD,
and because of these abominations the LORD your God drives them
out from before you.
13 "You shall be blameless before the LORD your God.
14 "For these nations which you will dispossess listened to soothsayers
and diviners; but as for you, the LORD your God has not appointed
such for you.
15 "The LORD your God will raise up for you a Prophet like me
from your midst, from your brethren. Him you shall hear,
ISAIAH 8:19-20
19 And when they say to you, "Seek those who are mediums and wizards,
who whisper and mutter," should not a people seek their God? Should
they seek the dead on behalf of the living?
20 To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according
to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
JEREMIAH 10:2-15, 23
2 Thus says the LORD: "Do not learn the way of the Gentiles; do
not be dismayed at the signs of heaven, for the Gentiles are dismayed
at them.
3 For the customs of the peoples are futile; for one cuts a tree
from the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the
ax.
4 They decorate it with silver and gold; they fasten it with nails
and hammers so that it will not topple.
5 They are upright, like a palm tree, and they cannot speak; they
must be carried, because they cannot go by themselves. Do not
be afraid of them, for they cannot do evil, nor can they do any
good."
6 Inasmuch as there is none like You, O LORD (You are great, and
Your name is great in might),
7 Who would not fear You, O King of the nations? For this is Your
rightful due. For among all the wise men of the nations, and in
all their kingdoms, there is none like You.
8 But they are altogether dull-hearted and foolish; a wooden idol
is a worthless doctrine.
9 Silver is beaten into plates; it is brought from Tarshish, and
gold from Uphaz, the work of the craftsman and of the hands of
the metalsmith; blue and purple are their clothing; they are all
the work of skillful men.
10 But the LORD is the true God; he is the living God and the
everlasting King. At His wrath the earth will tremble, and the
nations will not be able to endure His indignation.
11 Thus you shall say to them: "The gods that have not made the
heavens and the earth shall perish from the earth and from under
these heavens."
12 He has made the earth by His power, he has established the
world by His wisdom, and has stretched out the heavens at His
discretion.
13 When He utters His voice, there is a multitude of waters in
the heavens: "And He causes the vapors to ascend from the ends
of the earth. He makes lightning for the rain, he brings the wind
out of His treasuries."
14 Everyone is dull-hearted, without knowledge; every metalsmith
is put to shame by an image; for his molded image is falsehood,
and there is no breath in them.
15 They are futile, a work of errors; in the time of their punishment
they shall perish.
23 O LORD, I know the way of man is not in himself; it is not
in man who walks to direct his own steps.
JEREMIAH 14:14-15, 22
14 ...the LORD said to me, "The prophets prophesy lies in My
name. I have not sent them, commanded them, nor spoken to them;
they prophesy to you a false vision, divination, a worthless thing,
and the deceit of their heart.
15 "Therefore thus says the LORD concerning the prophets who prophesy
in My name, whom I did not send, and who say, 'Sword and famine
shall not be in this land'--' By sword and famine those prophets
shall be consumed!
22 Are there any among the idols of the nations that can cause
rain? Or can the heavens give showers? Are You not He, O LORD
our God? Therefore we will wait for You, since You have made all
these.
JEREMIAH 27:9-10
9 ...do not listen to your prophets, your diviners, your dreamers,
your soothsayers, or your sorcerers...
10 For they prophesy a lie to you...
EXODUS 22:18
18 "You shall not permit a sorceress to live.
EZEKIEL 13:1-3, 6-10, 17-18,
20-23
1 ...the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
2 "Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel who prophesy,
and say to those who prophesy out of their own heart, 'Hear the
word of the LORD!'"
3 Thus says the Lord GOD: "Woe to the foolish prophets, who follow
their own spirit and have seen nothing!
6 "They have envisioned futility and false divination, saying,
'Thus says the LORD!' But the LORD has not sent them; yet they
hope that the word may be confirmed.
7 "Have you not seen a futile vision, and have you not spoken
false divination? You say, 'The LORD says,' but I have not spoken."
8 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: "Because you have spoken nonsense
and envisioned lies, therefore I am indeed against you," says
the Lord GOD.
9 "My hand will be against the prophets who envision futility
and who divine lies; they shall not be in the assembly of My people,
nor be written in the record of the house of Israel, nor shall
they enter into the land of Israel. Then you shall know that I
am the Lord GOD.
10 "Because, indeed, because they have seduced My people, saying,
'Peace!' when there is no peace...
17 "...set your face against the daughters of your people, who
prophesy out of their own heart; prophesy against them,
18 "and say, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: "Woe to the women who sew
magic charms on their sleeves and make veils for the heads of
people of every height to hunt souls! Will you hunt the souls
of My people, and keep yourselves alive?
20 '..."Behold, I am against your magic charms by which you hunt
souls there like birds. I will tear them from your arms, and let
the souls go, the souls you hunt like birds.
21 "I will also tear off your veils and deliver My people out
of your hand, and they shall no longer be as prey in your hand.
Then you shall know that I am the LORD."'"
22 "Because with lies you have made the heart of the righteous
sad, whom I have not made sad; and you have strengthened the hands
of the wicked, so that he does not turn from his wicked way to
save his life.
23 "Therefore you shall no longer envision futility nor practice
divination; for I will deliver My people out of your hand, and
you shall know that I am the LORD."'"
MALACHI 3:5-7
5 ...I will come near you for judgment; I will be a swift witness
against sorcerers, against adulterers, against perjurers, against
those who exploit wage earners and widows and orphans, and against
those who turn away an alien-- because they do not fear Me," says
the LORD of hosts.
6 "For I am the LORD, I do not change...
7 Yet from the days of your fathers you have gone away from My
ordinances and have not kept them. Return to Me, and I will return
to you,"...
MICAH 2:11
11 If a man should walk in a false spirit and speak a lie, saying,
'I will prophesy to you of wine and drink,' even he would be the
prattler of this people.
MICAH 3:4-7
4 ...they will cry to the LORD, but He will not hear them; he
will even hide His face from them at that time, because they have
been evil in their deeds.
5 Thus says the LORD concerning the prophets who make my people
stray; who chant "Peace" while they chew with their teeth, but
who prepare war against him who puts nothing into their mouths:
6 "Therefore you shall have night without vision, and you shall
have darkness without divination; the sun shall go down on the
prophets, and the day shall be dark for them.
7 So the seers shall be ashamed, and the diviners abashed; indeed
they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer from God."
MICAH 5:12-14
12 I will cut off sorceries from your hand, and you shall have
no soothsayers.
13 Your carved images I will also cut off, and your sacred pillars
from your midst; you shall no more worship the work of your hands;
14 I will pluck your wooden images from your midst...
1 SAMUEL 15:23
23 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness
is as iniquity and idolatry....
1 CHRONICLES 10:13-14
13 ... Saul died for his unfaithfulness which he had committed
against the LORD, because he did not keep the word of the LORD,
and also because he consulted a medium for guidance.
14 ... he did not inquire of the LORD...
2 CHRONICLES 33:1-3, 6, 10
1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king...
2 ... he did evil in the sight of the LORD...
3 ...he raised up altars for the Baals, and made wooden images;
and he worshiped all the host of heaven and served them.
6 Also he caused his sons to pass through the fire in the Valley
of the Son of Hinnom; he practiced soothsaying, used witchcraft
and sorcery, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did much
evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke Him to anger.
10 And the LORD spoke to Manasseh and his people, but they would
not listen.
ZECHARIAH 10:2
2 ... the idols speak delusion; the diviners envision lies, and
tell false dreams; they comfort in vain. Therefore the people
wend their way like sheep; they are in trouble because there is
no shepherd.
ISAIAH 8:19
19 ... when they say to you, "Seek those who are mediums and wizards,
who whisper and mutter," should not a people seek their God?
GALATIANS 5:13-25
13 ... you, brethren, have been called to liberty; only do not
use liberty as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love
serve one another.
14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this: "You
shall love your neighbor as yourself."
15 But if you bite and devour one another, beware lest you be
consumed by one another!
16 I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the
lust of the flesh.
17 For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against
the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you
do not do the things that you wish.
18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
19 Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery,
fornication, uncleanness, lewdness,
20 idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts
of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies,
21 envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which
I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that
those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of
God.
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering,
kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
23 gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.
24 And those who are Christ's have crucified the flesh with its
passions and desires.
25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
1 JOHN 4:1-8
1 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits,
whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone
out into the world.
2 By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that
confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God,
3 and every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ
has come in the flesh is not of God...
4 You are of God, little children, and have overcome them,
because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.
5 They are of the world. Therefore they speak as of the
world, and the world hears them.
6 We are of God. He who knows God hears us; he who is not
of God does not hear us. By this we know the spirit of truth and
the spirit of error.
7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God;
and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.
8 He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.
COLOSSIANS 2:8
8 Beware lest anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit,
according to the tradition of men, according to the basic principles
of the world, and not according to Christ.
LUKE 10:16-20
16 "He who hears you hears Me, he who rejects you rejects Me,
and he who rejects Me rejects Him who sent Me."
17 Then the seventy returned with joy, saying, "Lord, even the
demons are subject to us in Your name."
18 And He said to them, "I saw Satan fall like lightning from
heaven.
19 "Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and
scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall
by any means hurt you.
20 "Nevertheless do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are
subject to you, but rather rejoice because your names are written
in heaven."
MATTHEW 24:23-27
23 "... if anyone says to you, 'Look, here is the Christ!' or
'There!' do not believe it.
24 "For false christs and false prophets will rise and show great
signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect.
25 "See, I have told you beforehand.
26 "Therefore if they say to you, 'Look, He is in the desert!'
do not go out; or 'Look, He is in the inner rooms!' do not believe
it.
27 "For as the lightning comes from the east and flashes to the
west, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be.
2 THESSALONIANS 2:1-12
1 Now, brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ
and our gathering together to Him, we ask you,
2 not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled, either by spirit
or by word or by letter, as if from us, as though the day of Christ
had come.
3 Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come
unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed,
the son of perdition,
4 who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God
or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of
God, showing himself that he is God.
5 Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you
these things?
6 And now you know what is restraining, that he may be revealed
in his own time.
7 For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who
now restrains will do so until He is taken out of the way.
8 And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will
consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness
of His coming.
9 The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of
Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders,
10 and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish,
because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they
might be saved.
11 And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that
they should believe the lie,
12 that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth
but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
LUKE 24:25
25 ..."O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe in all that
the prophets have spoken!
JOHN 3:20
20 "... everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not
come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed.
JOHN 8:31-32
31 ..."If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed...
32 And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make
you free.
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