Bible verses about "divination" | Haweis

⁹ But a certain man, named Simon, lived previously in that city, who practised magic, and astonished the nation of Samaria, giving out himself as an extraordinary great personage: ¹⁰ to whom all gave heed from the small to the great, saying, This man is the great power of God. ¹¹ And to him they attended, because he had of a considerable time astonished them by his magical tricks. ¹² But when they believed Philip, who preached the glad tidings of the things which related to the kingdom of God, and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptised both men and women. ¹³ Then Simon also himself believed: and being baptised, he attached himself to Philip, and beholding the signs and great miracles which were performed, he was astonished.

⁶ We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth us not. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of delusion. ⁷ Beloved, let us love one another; because love is from God, and every one who loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. ⁸ He that loveth not, never knew God; for God is love.

⁸ Beware that no man make a prey of you by means of philosophy and vain delusion, after the tradition of men, after the principles of the world, and not after Christ: ⁹ for in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily; ¹⁰ and ye are complete in him, who is the head of all principality and power:

¹⁹ And many of those who practised magical arts brought the books, and burned them before all men; and they calculated the prices of them, and found them worth fifty thousand pieces of silver.

²⁰ idolatry, magical charms, enmities, strifes, jealousies, animosities, quarrels, divisions, heresies,