But then Pharaoh called the wise men and sorcerers — the magicians of Egypt, and they also did the same thing by their occult practices.
Each one threw down his staff, and it became a serpent. But Aaron’s staff swallowed their staffs.
“Do not allow a sorceress to live.
“You are not to eat anything with blood in it. You are not to practice divination or witchcraft.
“Do not turn to mediums or consult spiritists, or you will be defiled by them; I am the Lord your God.
“Whoever turns to mediums or spiritists and prostitutes himself with them, I will turn against that person and cut him off from his people.
“A man or a woman who is a medium or a spiritist must be put to death. They are to be stoned; their death is their own fault.”
“When you enter the land the Lord your God is giving you, do not imitate the detestable customs of those nations.
No one among you is to sacrifice his son or daughter in the fire, practice divination, tell fortunes, interpret omens, practice sorcery,
cast spells, consult a medium or a spiritist, or inquire of the dead.
Everyone who does these acts is detestable to the Lord, and the Lord your God is driving out the nations before you because of these detestable acts.
You must be blameless before the Lord your God.
Though these nations you are about to drive out listen to fortune-tellers and diviners, the Lord your God has not permitted you to do this.
He built altars to all the stars in the sky in both courtyards of the Lord’s temple.
He sacrificed his son in the fire, practiced witchcraft and divination, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did a huge amount of evil in the Lord’s sight, angering him.
As a cloud fades away and vanishes, so the one who goes down to Sheol will never rise again.
Saul died for his unfaithfulness to the Lord because he did not keep the Lord’s word. He even consulted a medium for guidance,
but he did not inquire of the Lord. So the Lord put him to death and turned the kingdom over to David son of Jesse.
For the living know that they will die, but the dead don’t know anything. There is no longer a reward for them because the memory of them is forgotten.
Their love, their hate, and their envy have already disappeared, and there is no longer a portion for them in all that is done under the sun.
For you have abandoned your people, the house of Jacob, because they are full of divination from the East and of fortune-tellers like the Philistines. They are in league with foreigners.
When they say to you, “Inquire of the mediums and the spiritists who chirp and mutter,” shouldn’t a people inquire of their God? Should they inquire of the dead on behalf of the living?
Go to God’s instruction and testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, there will be no dawn for them.
The dead do not live; departed spirits do not rise up. Indeed, you have punished and destroyed them; you have wiped out all memory of them.
So you should not listen to your prophets, diviners, dreamers, fortune-tellers, or sorcerers who say to you, ‘Don’t serve the king of Babylon!’
They are prophesying a lie to you so that you will be removed from your land. I will banish you, and you will perish.
I will remove sorceries from your hands, and you will not have any more fortune-tellers.
I will remove your carved images and sacred pillars from you so that you will no longer worship the work of your hands.
“I will come to you in judgment, and I will be ready to witness against sorcerers and adulterers; against those who swear falsely; against those who oppress the hired worker, the widow, and the fatherless; and against those who deny justice to the resident alien. They do not fear me,” says the Lord of Armies.
They were attentive to him because he had amazed them with his sorceries for a long time.
But when they believed Philip, as he proclaimed the good news about the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, both men and women were baptized.
Once, as we were on our way to prayer, a slave girl met us who had a spirit by which she predicted the future. She made a large profit for her owners by fortune-telling.
She did this for many days. Paul was greatly annoyed. Turning to the spirit, he said, “I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her!” And it came out right away.
while many of those who had practiced magic collected their books and burned them in front of everyone. So they calculated their value and found it to be fifty thousand pieces of silver.
Now the works of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, moral impurity, promiscuity,
idolatry, sorcery, hatreds, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambitions, dissensions, factions,
And just as it is appointed for people to die once — and after this, judgment —
The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were completed. This is the first resurrection.
Blessed and holy is the one who shares in the first resurrection! The second death has no power over them, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and they will reign with him for a thousand years.
But the cowards, faithless, detestable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars — their share will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”
Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.