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What Does the Bible Say About Contacting the Dead?

Here are 12 Bible verses about Contacting the Dead, ordered by how relevant readers found them, with the King James Version and the modern Berean Standard Bible side by side.

  1. #1Leviticus 19:31

    Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the Lord your God.

    BSBYou must not turn to mediums or spiritists; do not seek them out, or you will be defiled by them. I am the LORD your God.

  2. #2Deuteronomy 18:9-14

    When thou art come into the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations. There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. For all that do these things are an abomination unto the Lord: and because of these abominations the Lord thy God doth drive them out from before thee. Thou shalt be perfect with the Lord thy God. For these nations, which thou shalt possess, hearkened unto observers of times, and unto diviners: but as for thee, the Lord thy God hath not suffered thee so to do.

    BSBWhen you enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you, do not imitate the detestable ways of the nations there. Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, practices divination or conjury, interprets omens, practices sorcery, casts spells, consults a medium or spiritist, or inquires of the dead. For whoever does these things is detestable to the LORD. And because of these detestable things, the LORD your God is driving out the nations before you. You must be blameless before the LORD your God. Though these nations, which you will dispossess, listen to conjurers and diviners, the LORD your God has not permitted you to do so.

  3. #3Isaiah 8:19

    And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead?

    BSBWhen men tell you to consult the spirits of the dead and the spiritists who whisper and mutter, shouldn’t a people consult their God instead? Why consult the dead on behalf of the living?

  4. #4Leviticus 20:6

    And the soul that turneth after such as have familiar spirits, and after wizards, to go a whoring after them, I will even set my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people.

    BSBWhoever turns to mediums or spiritists to prostitute himself with them, I will also set My face against that person and cut him off from his people.

  5. #51 Timothy 4:1

    Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;

    BSBNow the Spirit expressly states that in later times some will abandon the faith to follow deceitful spirits and the teachings of demons,

  6. #6Ecclesiastes 9:5

    For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

    BSBFor the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing. They have no further reward, because the memory of them is forgotten.

  7. #72 Corinthians 11:14

    And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.

    BSBAnd no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light.

  8. #8Psalms 115:17

    The dead praise not the Lord, neither any that go down into silence.

    BSBIt is not the dead who praise the LORD, nor any who descend into silence.

  9. #91 John 4:1

    Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

    BSBBeloved, 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.

  10. #10Psalms 146:4

    His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.

    BSBWhen his spirit departs, he returns to the ground; on that very day his plans perish.

  11. #111 Timothy 2:5

    For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;

    BSBFor there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,

  12. #12Hebrews 9:27

    And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:

    BSBJust as man is appointed to die once, and after that to face judgment,

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