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Acts 5:36
Some time ago Theudas rose up, claiming to be somebody, and a group of about four hundred men rallied to him. He was killed, and all his followers were dispersed and came to nothing.
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Acts 13:6
When they had traveled the whole island as far as Paphos, they came across a sorcerer, a Jewish false prophet named Bar-Jesus.
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John 7:18
The one who speaks on his own seeks his own glory; but he who seeks the glory of the one who sent him is true, and there is no unrighteousness in him.
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2 Timothy 3 2
For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, proud, demeaning, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,
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Acts 16:16-18
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.As she followed Paul and us she cried out,“ These men, who are proclaiming to you a way of salvation, are the servants of the Most High God.”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.
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Exodus 8:18-19
The magicians tried to produce gnats using their occult practices, but they could not. The gnats remained on people and animals.“ This is the finger of God,” the magicians said to Pharaoh. But Pharaoh’s heart was hard, and he would not listen to them, as the LORD had said.
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Acts 8:11
They were attentive to him because he had amazed them with his sorceries for a long time.
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Deuteronomy 18:10-12
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.
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2 Timothy 3 5
holding to the form of godliness but denying its power. Avoid these people.
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Acts 19:18-20
And many who had become believers came confessing and disclosing their practices,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.In this way the word of the Lord spread and prevailed.
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2 Timothy 3 8-2 Timothy 3 9
Just as Jannes and Jambres resisted Moses, so these also resist the truth. They are men who are corrupt in mind and worthless in regard to the faith.But they will not make further progress, for their foolishness will be clear to all, as was the foolishness of Jannes and Jambres.
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2 Thessalonians 2 4
He opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he sits in God’s temple, proclaiming that he himself is God.
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Revelation 13:13-14
It also performs great signs, even causing fire to come down from heaven to earth in front of people.It deceives those who live on the earth because of the signs that it is permitted to perform in the presence of the beast, telling those who live on the earth to make an image of the beast who was wounded by the sword and yet lived.
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Exodus 7:22
But the magicians of Egypt did the same thing by their occult practices. So Pharaoh’s heart was hard, and he would not listen to them, as the LORD had said.
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Leviticus 20:6
“ Whoever turns to mediums or spiritists and prostitutes himself with them, I will turn against that person and cut him off from his people.
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Exodus 9:11
The magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils, for the boils were on the magicians as well as on all the Egyptians.
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Exodus 7:11
But then Pharaoh called the wise men and sorcerers— the magicians of Egypt, and they also did the same thing by their occult practices.
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Revelation 22:15
Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
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2 Peter 2 18
For by uttering boastful, empty words, they seduce, with fleshly desires and debauchery, people who have barely escaped from those who live in error.