100 Bible Verses about Punishment For Sorcerers

Revelation 21:8 ESV / 18 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

Revelation 22:15 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Outside are the dogs and sorcerers and the sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.

Malachi 3:5 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who oppress the hired worker in his wages, the widow and the fatherless, against those who thrust aside the sojourner, and do not fear me, says the Lord of hosts.

Exodus 22:18 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“You shall not permit a sorceress to live.

John 8:44 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

Leviticus 20:27 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“A man or a woman who is a medium or a necromancer shall surely be put to death. They shall be stoned with stones; their blood shall be upon them.”

Leviticus 19:31 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Do not turn to mediums or necromancers; do not seek them out, and so make yourselves unclean by them: I am the Lord your God.

Leviticus 19:26 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“You shall not eat any flesh with the blood in it. You shall not interpret omens or tell fortunes.

1 Chronicles 10:13-14 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

So Saul died for his breach of faith. He broke faith with the Lord in that he did not keep the command of the Lord, and also consulted a medium, seeking guidance. He did not seek guidance from the Lord. Therefore the Lord put him to death and turned the kingdom over to David the son of Jesse.

Leviticus 20:6 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“If a person turns to mediums and necromancers, whoring after them, I will set my face against that person and will cut him off from among his people.

Revelation 18:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And the light of a lamp will shine in you no more, and the voice of bridegroom and bride will be heard in you no more, for your merchants were the great ones of the earth, and all nations were deceived by your sorcery.

Jude 1:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.

Hebrews 13:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.

Galatians 5:19-21 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

John 3:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Micah 5:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And I will cut off sorceries from your hand, and you shall have no more tellers of fortunes;

Proverbs 19:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

A false witness will not go unpunished, and he who breathes out lies will perish.

Deuteronomy 18:9-14 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“When you come into the land that the Lord your God is giving you, you shall not learn to follow the abominable practices of those nations. There shall not be found among you anyone who burns his son or his daughter as an offering, anyone who practices divination or tells fortunes or interprets omens, or a sorcerer or a charmer or a medium or a necromancer or one who inquires of the dead, for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord. And because of these abominations the Lord your God is driving them out before you. You shall be blameless before the Lord your God, ...

Deuteronomy 18:9-12 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“When you come into the land that the Lord your God is giving you, you shall not learn to follow the abominable practices of those nations. There shall not be found among you anyone who burns his son or his daughter as an offering, anyone who practices divination or tells fortunes or interprets omens, or a sorcerer or a charmer or a medium or a necromancer or one who inquires of the dead, for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord. And because of these abominations the Lord your God is driving them out before you.

Deuteronomy 4:19 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And beware lest you raise your eyes to heaven, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the host of heaven, you be drawn away and bow down to them and serve them, things that the Lord your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole heaven.

Exodus 20:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“You shall not murder.

Revelation 14:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

He also will drink the wine of God's wrath, poured full strength into the cup of his anger, and he will be tormented with fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb.

Revelation 9:21 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Nor did they repent of their murders or their sorceries or their sexual immorality or their thefts.

Revelation 2:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. The one who conquers will not be hurt by the second death.’

1 Timothy 4:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Through the insincerity of liars whose consciences are seared,

2 Thessalonians 1:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

They will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might,

Romans 6:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Acts 19:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And a number of those who had practiced magic arts brought their books together and burned them in the sight of all. And they counted the value of them and found it came to fifty thousand pieces of silver.

Matthew 10:28 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.

Daniel 2:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Then the king commanded that the magicians, the enchanters, the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans be summoned to tell the king his dreams. So they came in and stood before the king.

Ezekiel 18:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Behold, all souls are mine; the soul of the father as well as the soul of the son is mine: the soul who sins shall die.

Ezekiel 13:20 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Therefore thus says the Lord God: Behold, I am against your magic bands with which you hunt the souls like birds, and I will tear them from your arms, and I will let the souls whom you hunt go free, the souls like birds.

Ezekiel 13:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And say, Thus says the Lord God: Woe to the women who sew magic bands upon all wrists, and make veils for the heads of persons of every stature, in the hunt for souls! Will you hunt down souls belonging to my people and keep your own souls alive?

Isaiah 8:19-20 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And when they say to you, “Inquire of the mediums and the necromancers who chirp and mutter,” should not a people inquire of their God? Should they inquire of the dead on behalf of the living? To the teaching and to the testimony! If they will not speak according to this word, it is because they have no dawn.

Isaiah 8:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And when they say to you, “Inquire of the mediums and the necromancers who chirp and mutter,” should not a people inquire of their God? Should they inquire of the dead on behalf of the living?

2 Chronicles 33:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And he burned his sons as an offering in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, and used fortune-telling and omens and sorcery, and dealt with mediums and with necromancers. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger.

2 Kings 21:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And he burned his son as an offering and used fortune-telling and omens and dealt with mediums and with necromancers. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger.

2 Kings 9:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And when Joram saw Jehu, he said, “Is it peace, Jehu?” He answered, “What peace can there be, so long as the whorings and the sorceries of your mother Jezebel are so many?”

Leviticus 24:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Whoever takes a human life shall surely be put to death.

Leviticus 20:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“If a man commits adultery with the wife of his neighbor, both the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.

Exodus 7:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Then Pharaoh summoned the wise men and the sorcerers, and they, the magicians of Egypt, also did the same by their secret arts.

Revelation 22:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life and that they may enter the city by the gates.

Revelation 20:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.

Revelation 20:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur where the beast and the false prophet were, and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.

Revelation 20:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And when the thousand years are ended, Satan will be released from his prison

Revelation 14:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And the smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever, and they have no rest, day or night, these worshipers of the beast and its image, and whoever receives the mark of its name.”

Revelation 14:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

It is these who have not defiled themselves with women, for they are virgins. It is these who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These have been redeemed from mankind as firstfruits for God and the Lamb,

Revelation 9:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands nor give up worshiping demons and idols of gold and silver and bronze and stone and wood, which cannot see or hear or walk,

Revelation 2:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Behold, I will throw her onto a sickbed, and those who commit adultery with her I will throw into great tribulation, unless they repent of her works,

Revelation 2:1-29 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: ‘The words of him who holds the seven stars in his right hand, who walks among the seven golden lampstands. “‘I know your works, your toil and your patient endurance, and how you cannot bear with those who are evil, but have tested those who call themselves apostles and are not, and found them to be false. I know you are enduring patiently and bearing up for my name's sake, and you have not grown weary. But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first. Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent, and do the works you did at first. If not, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place, unless you repent. ...

Jude 1:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints.

1 John 4:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.

1 John 1:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

1 Peter 2:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Or to governors as sent by him to punish those who do evil and to praise those who do good.

James 4:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Hebrews 11:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.

2 Thessalonians 2:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan with all power and false signs and wonders,

Colossians 3:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

Galatians 5:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions,

Galatians 5:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality,

1 Corinthians 13:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant

1 Corinthians 6:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.

1 Corinthians 6:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality,

1 Corinthians 6:9-10 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.

Romans 13:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

Romans 13:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For he is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer.

Romans 13:1-14 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval, for he is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer. Therefore one must be in subjection, not only to avoid God's wrath but also for the sake of conscience. ...

Romans 13:1-4 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval, for he is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer.

Romans 12:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.”

Romans 8:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.

Acts 25:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

If then I am a wrongdoer and have committed anything for which I deserve to die, I do not seek to escape death. But if there is nothing to their charges against me, no one can give me up to them. I appeal to Caesar.”

Acts 16:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

As we were going to the place of prayer, we were met by a slave girl who had a spirit of divination and brought her owners much gain by fortune-telling.

Acts 8:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But there was a man named Simon, who had previously practiced magic in the city and amazed the people of Samaria, saying that he himself was somebody great.

John 5:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And come out, those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Mark 9:44 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 25:46 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

Matthew 25:41 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.

Matthew 23:33 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

You serpents, you brood of vipers, how are you to escape being sentenced to hell?

Matthew 16:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For the Son of Man is going to come with his angels in the glory of his Father, and then he will repay each person according to what he has done.

Matthew 6:34 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

Matthew 3:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor and gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.”

Zechariah 10:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For the household gods utter nonsense, and the diviners see lies; they tell false dreams and give empty consolation. Therefore the people wander like sheep; they are afflicted for lack of a shepherd.

Zephaniah 1:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“I will stretch out my hand against Judah and against all the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and I will cut off from this place the remnant of Baal and the name of the idolatrous priests along with the priests,

Nahum 3:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And all for the countless whorings of the prostitute, graceful and of deadly charms, who betrays nations with her whorings, and peoples with her charms.

Daniel 12:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

Daniel 2:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Daniel answered the king and said, “No wise men, enchanters, magicians, or astrologers can show to the king the mystery that the king has asked,

Daniel 1:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And in every matter of wisdom and understanding about which the king inquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters that were in all his kingdom.

Ezekiel 18:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Lends at interest, and takes profit; shall he then live? He shall not live. He has done all these abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon himself.

Ezekiel 13:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Thus says the Lord God, Woe to the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!

Jeremiah 27:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

So do not listen to your prophets, your diviners, your dreamers, your fortune-tellers, or your sorcerers, who are saying to you, ‘You shall not serve the king of Babylon.’

Jeremiah 27:9-10 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

So do not listen to your prophets, your diviners, your dreamers, your fortune-tellers, or your sorcerers, who are saying to you, ‘You shall not serve the king of Babylon.’ For it is a lie that they are prophesying to you, with the result that you will be removed far from your land, and I will drive you out, and you will perish.

Jeremiah 10:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Thus says the Lord: “Learn not the way of the nations, nor be dismayed at the signs of the heavens because the nations are dismayed at them,

Isaiah 44:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Who frustrates the signs of liars and makes fools of diviners, who turns wise men back and makes their knowledge foolish,

Isaiah 19:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And the spirit of the Egyptians within them will be emptied out, and I will confound their counsel; and they will inquire of the idols and the sorcerers, and the mediums and the necromancers;

Isaiah 4:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Then the Lord will create over the whole site of Mount Zion and over her assemblies a cloud by day, and smoke and the shining of a flaming fire by night; for over all the glory there will be a canopy.

Isaiah 3:1-26 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For behold, the Lord God of hosts is taking away from Jerusalem and from Judah support and supply, all support of bread, and all support of water; the mighty man and the soldier, the judge and the prophet, the diviner and the elder, the captain of fifty and the man of rank, the counselor and the skillful magician and the expert in charms. And I will make boys their princes, and infants shall rule over them. And the people will oppress one another, every one his fellow and every one his neighbor; the youth will be insolent to the elder, and the despised to the honorable. ...

Song of Solomon 8:1-14 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Oh that you were like a brother to me who nursed at my mother's breasts! If I found you outside, I would kiss you, and none would despise me. I would lead you and bring you into the house of my mother— she who used to teach me. I would give you spiced wine to drink, the juice of my pomegranate. His left hand is under my head, and his right hand embraces me! I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that you not stir up or awaken love until it pleases. Who is that coming up from the wilderness, leaning on her beloved? Under the apple tree I awakened you. There your mother was in labor with you; there she who bore you was in labor. ...

Ecclesiastes 8:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Because the sentence against an evil deed is not executed speedily, the heart of the children of man is fully set to do evil.