What Does the Bible Say About Ghost Hunting?

Leviticus 19:31 ESV / 38 helpful votes

“Do not turn to mediums or necromancers; do not seek them out, and so make yourselves unclean by them: I am the Lord your God.

Matthew 12:43-45 ESV / 37 helpful votes

“When the unclean spirit has gone out of a person, it passes through waterless places seeking rest, but finds none. Then it says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came.’ And when it comes, it finds the house empty, swept, and put in order. Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they enter and dwell there, and the last state of that person is worse than the first. So also will it be with this evil generation.”

Ephesians 6:12 ESV / 28 helpful votes

For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.

2 Corinthians 11:14-15 ESV / 17 helpful votes

And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. So it is no surprise if his servants, also, disguise themselves as servants of righteousness. Their end will correspond to their deeds.

Hebrews 6:4 ESV / 15 helpful votes

For it is impossible, in the case of those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, and have shared in the Holy Spirit,

John 1:33 ESV / 15 helpful votes

I myself did not know him, but he who sent me to baptize with water said to me, ‘He on whom you see the Spirit descend and remain, this is he who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.’

Luke 4:1 ESV / 12 helpful votes

And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness

Hebrews 9:27 ESV / 11 helpful votes

And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment,

Mark 13:11 ESV / 9 helpful votes

And when they bring you to trial and deliver you over, do not be anxious beforehand what you are to say, but say whatever is given you in that hour, for it is not you who speak, but the Holy Spirit.

2 Timothy 1:14 ESV / 8 helpful votes

By the Holy Spirit who dwells within us, guard the good deposit entrusted to you.

1 Corinthians 6:19 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,

Acts 5:32 ESV / 8 helpful votes

And we are witnesses to these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him.”

Romans 5:5 ESV / 7 helpful votes

And hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.

Luke 11:13 ESV / 7 helpful votes

If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”

John 14:26 ESV / 6 helpful votes

But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.

1 Samuel 28:7-25 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Then Saul said to his servants, “Seek out for me a woman who is a medium, that I may go to her and inquire of her.” And his servants said to him, “Behold, there is a medium at En-dor.” So Saul disguised himself and put on other garments and went, he and two men with him. And they came to the woman by night. And he said, “Divine for me by a spirit and bring up for me whomever I shall name to you.” The woman said to him, “Surely you know what Saul has done, how he has cut off the mediums and the necromancers from the land. Why then are you laying a trap for my life to bring about my death?” But Saul swore to her by the Lord, “As the Lord lives, no punishment shall come upon you for this thing.” Then the woman said, “Whom shall I bring up for you?” He said, “Bring up Samuel for me.” ...

Deuteronomy 18:9 ESV / 6 helpful votes

“When you come into the land that the Lord your God is giving you, you shall not learn to follow the abominable practices of those nations.

Revelation 16:14 ESV / 5 helpful votes

For they are demonic spirits, performing signs, who go abroad to the kings of the whole world, to assemble them for battle on the great day of God the Almighty.

Matthew 17:19-20 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and said, “Why could we not cast it out?” He said to them, “Because of your little faith. For truly, I say to you, if you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you.”

Matthew 12:32 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come.

Matthew 1:20 ESV / 5 helpful votes

But as he considered these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, do not fear to take Mary as your wife, for that which is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit.

Psalm 2:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes

He who sits in the heavens laughs; the Lord holds them in derision.

Deuteronomy 18:9-19 ESV / 5 helpful votes

“When you come into the land that the Lord your God is giving you, you shall not learn to follow the abominable practices of those nations. There shall not be found among you anyone who burns his son or his daughter as an offering, anyone who practices divination or tells fortunes or interprets omens, or a sorcerer or a charmer or a medium or a necromancer or one who inquires of the dead, for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord. And because of these abominations the Lord your God is driving them out before you. You shall be blameless before the Lord your God, ...

Leviticus 20:6 ESV / 5 helpful votes

“If a person turns to mediums and necromancers, whoring after them, I will set my face against that person and will cut him off from among his people.

Revelation 22:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Outside are the dogs and sorcerers and the sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.

Revelation 13:1-18 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And I saw a beast rising out of the sea, with ten horns and seven heads, with ten diadems on its horns and blasphemous names on its heads. And the beast that I saw was like a leopard; its feet were like a bear's, and its mouth was like a lion's mouth. And to it the dragon gave his power and his throne and great authority. One of its heads seemed to have a mortal wound, but its mortal wound was healed, and the whole earth marveled as they followed the beast. And they worshiped the dragon, for he had given his authority to the beast, and they worshiped the beast, saying, “Who is like the beast, and who can fight against it?” And the beast was given a mouth uttering haughty and blasphemous words, and it was allowed to exercise authority for forty-two months. ...

Revelation 9:20-21 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands nor give up worshiping demons and idols of gold and silver and bronze and stone and wood, which cannot see or hear or walk, nor did they repent of their murders or their sorceries or their sexual immorality or their thefts.

2 Thessalonians 2:9-12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan with all power and false signs and wonders, and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. Therefore God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe what is false, in order that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

Galatians 5:19-21 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

Acts 19:18-20 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Also many of those who were now believers came, confessing and divulging their practices. And a number of those who had practiced magic arts brought their books together and burned them in the sight of all. And they counted the value of them and found it came to fifty thousand pieces of silver. So the word of the Lord continued to increase and prevail mightily.

Acts 19:13-16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Then some of the itinerant Jewish exorcists undertook to invoke the name of the Lord Jesus over those who had evil spirits, saying, “I adjure you by the Jesus whom Paul proclaims.” Seven sons of a Jewish high priest named Sceva were doing this. But the evil spirit answered them, “Jesus I know, and Paul I recognize, but who are you?” And the man in whom was the evil spirit leaped on them, mastered all of them and overpowered them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.

Acts 8:9-13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But there was a man named Simon, who had previously practiced magic in the city and amazed the people of Samaria, saying that he himself was somebody great. They all paid attention to him, from the least to the greatest, saying, “This man is the power of God that is called Great.” And they paid attention to him because for a long time he had amazed them with his magic. But when they believed Philip as he preached good news about the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women. Even Simon himself believed, and after being baptized he continued with Philip. And seeing signs and great miracles performed, he was amazed.

Luke 2:25 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Now there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon, and this man was righteous and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him.

Mark 12:36 ESV / 4 helpful votes

David himself, in the Holy Spirit, declared, “‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand, until I put your enemies under your feet.”’

Matthew 17:14-20 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And when they came to the crowd, a man came up to him and, kneeling before him, said, “Lord, have mercy on my son, for he has seizures and he suffers terribly. For often he falls into the fire, and often into the water. And I brought him to your disciples, and they could not heal him.” And Jesus answered, “O faithless and twisted generation, how long am I to be with you? How long am I to bear with you? Bring him here to me.” And Jesus rebuked the demon, and it came out of him, and the boy was healed instantly. ...

Matthew 3:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“I baptize you with water for repentance, but he who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.

Matthew 1:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Now the birth of Jesus Christ took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found to be with child from the Holy Spirit.

Isaiah 19:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And the spirit of the Egyptians within them will be emptied out, and I will confound their counsel; and they will inquire of the idols and the sorcerers, and the mediums and the necromancers;

2 Chronicles 33:1-6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. And he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, according to the abominations of the nations whom the Lord drove out before the people of Israel. For he rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had broken down, and he erected altars to the Baals, and made Asheroth, and worshiped all the host of heaven and served them. And he built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, “In Jerusalem shall my name be forever.” And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the Lord. ...

1 Chronicles 10:13-14 ESV / 4 helpful votes

So Saul died for his breach of faith. He broke faith with the Lord in that he did not keep the command of the Lord, and also consulted a medium, seeking guidance. He did not seek guidance from the Lord. Therefore the Lord put him to death and turned the kingdom over to David the son of Jesse.

2 Kings 23:24 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Moreover, Josiah put away the mediums and the necromancers and the household gods and the idols and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, that he might establish the words of the law that were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the Lord.

1 Samuel 15:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For rebellion is as the sin of divination, and presumption is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the Lord, he has also rejected you from being king.”

Deuteronomy 7:26 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And you shall not bring an abominable thing into your house and become devoted to destruction like it. You shall utterly detest and abhor it, for it is devoted to destruction.

Leviticus 20:27 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“A man or a woman who is a medium or a necromancer shall surely be put to death. They shall be stoned with stones; their blood shall be upon them.”

44 Bible Verses about Ghost Hunting

Leviticus 19:31 ESV / 38 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 12:43-45 ESV / 37 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 6:12 ESV / 28 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Corinthians 11:14-15 ESV / 17 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Hebrews 6:4 ESV / 15 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 1:33 ESV / 15 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 4:1 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Hebrews 9:27 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Mark 13:11 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Timothy 1:14 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 6:19 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Acts 5:32 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 5:5 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 11:13 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 14:26 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Samuel 28:7-25 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Deuteronomy 18:9 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 16:14 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 17:19-20 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 12:32 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 1:20 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 2:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Deuteronomy 18:9-19 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Leviticus 20:6 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 22:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 13:1-18 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 9:20-21 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Thessalonians 2:9-12 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Galatians 5:19-21 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Acts 19:18-20 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Acts 19:13-16 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Acts 8:9-13 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 2:25 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Mark 12:36 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 17:14-20 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 3:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 1:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 19:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Chronicles 33:1-6 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Chronicles 10:13-14 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Kings 23:24 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Samuel 15:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Deuteronomy 7:26 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Leviticus 20:27 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Suggest a Verse

Enter a Verse Reference (e.g., John 3:16-17)