Bible Verses about “contacting the dead”
The Bible contains 17 verses about contacting the dead across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“¶ Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.”
“Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I [am] the LORD your God.”
“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.”
“And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:”
“For [there is] one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;”
“And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.”
“¶ 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;”
“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.”
“¶ 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.”
“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?”
“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].”
“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.”
“The dead praise not the LORD, neither any that go down into silence.”
“His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.”