Acts 8:9
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The Sorcerer’s Profession of Faith
9 But there was a certain man called Simon, who previously (A)practiced [a]sorcery in the city and (B)astonished the [b]people of Samaria, claiming that he was someone great,
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Acts 13:6
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6 Now when they had gone through [a]the island to Paphos, they found (A)a certain sorcerer, a false prophet, a Jew whose name was Bar-Jesus,
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- Acts 13:6 NU the whole island
Acts 5:36
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36 For some time ago Theudas rose up, claiming to be somebody. A number of men, about four hundred, [a]joined him. He was slain, and all who obeyed him were scattered and came to nothing.
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- Acts 5:36 followed
John 7:18
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18 (A)He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory; but He who (B)seeks the glory of the One who sent Him is true, and (C)no unrighteousness is in Him.
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Exodus 8:18-19
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18 Now (A)the magicians so worked with their [a]enchantments to bring forth lice, but they (B)could not. So there were lice on man and beast. 19 Then the magicians said to Pharaoh, “This is (C)the[b] finger of God.” But Pharaoh’s (D)heart grew hard, and he did not heed them, just as the Lord had said.
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- Exodus 8:18 secret arts
- Exodus 8:19 An act of God
Leviticus 20:6
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6 ‘And (A)the person who turns to mediums and familiar spirits, to prostitute himself with them, I will set My face against that person and cut him off from his people.
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Acts 19:18-20
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18 And many who had believed came (A)confessing and telling their deeds. 19 Also, many of those who had practiced magic brought their books together and burned them in the sight of all. And they counted up the value of them, and it totaled fifty thousand pieces of silver. 20 (B)So the word of the Lord grew mightily and prevailed.
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Acts 16:16-18
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Paul and Silas Imprisoned
16 Now it happened, as we went to prayer, that a certain slave girl (A)possessed with a spirit of divination met us, who brought her masters (B)much profit by fortune-telling. 17 This girl followed Paul and us, and cried out, saying, “These men are the servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to us the way of salvation.” 18 And this she did for many days.
But Paul, (C)greatly [a]annoyed, turned and said to the spirit, “I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her.” (D)And he came out that very hour.
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- Acts 16:18 distressed
Acts 8:11
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11 And they heeded him because he had astonished them with his [a]sorceries for a long time.
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- Acts 8:11 magic arts
Exodus 7:22
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22 (A)Then the magicians of Egypt did (B)so with their [a]enchantments; and Pharaoh’s heart grew hard, and he did not heed them, (C)as the Lord had said.
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- Exodus 7:22 secret arts
Exodus 7:11
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11 But Pharaoh also (A)called the wise men and (B)the [a]sorcerers; so the magicians of Egypt, they also (C)did in like manner with their [b]enchantments.
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- Exodus 7:11 soothsayers
- Exodus 7:11 secret arts
Revelation 22:15
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15 [a]But (A)outside are (B)dogs and sorcerers and sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and whoever loves and practices a lie.
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- Revelation 22:15 NU, M omit But
Revelation 13:13-14
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13 (A)He performs great signs, (B)so that he even makes fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men. 14 (C)And he deceives [a]those who dwell on the earth (D)by those signs which he was granted to do in the sight of the beast, telling those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the beast who was wounded by the sword (E)and lived.
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- Revelation 13:14 M my own people
2 Peter 2:18
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Deceptions of False Teachers
18 For when they speak great swelling words of emptiness, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through lewdness, the ones who [a]have actually escaped from those who live in error.
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- 2 Peter 2:18 NU are barely escaping
2 Timothy 3:8-9
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8 (A)Now as Jannes and Jambres resisted Moses, so do these also resist the truth: (B)men of corrupt minds, (C)disapproved concerning the faith; 9 but they will progress no further, for their folly will be manifest to all, (D)as theirs also was.
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2 Timothy 3:5
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5 (A)having a form of godliness but (B)denying its power. And (C)from such people turn away!
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2 Timothy 3:2
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2 For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
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2 Thessalonians 2:4
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4 who opposes and (A)exalts himself (B)above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits [a]as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.
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- 2 Thessalonians 2:4 NU omits as God
Exodus 9:11
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11 And the (A)magicians could not stand before Moses because of the (B)boils, for the boils were on the magicians and on all the Egyptians.
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Deuteronomy 18:10-12
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10 There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter (A)pass[a] through the fire, (B)or one who practices witchcraft, or a soothsayer, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer, 11 (C)or one who conjures spells, or a medium, or a spiritist, or (D)one who calls up the dead. 12 For all who do these things are [b]an abomination to the Lord, and (E)because of these abominations the Lord your God drives them out from before you.
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- Deuteronomy 18:10 Be burned as an offering to an idol
- Deuteronomy 18:12 detestable
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