Praying To The Dead

For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,

“‘Don’t turn to those who are mediums, nor to the wizards. Don’t seek them out, to be defiled by them. I am Yahweh your God.

Now when he had taken the book, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each one having a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

or a charmer, or a consulter with a familiar spirit, or a wizard, or a necromancer.

For the living know that they will die, but the dead don’t know anything, neither do they have any more a reward; for their memory is forgotten. — read the full passage →

Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,

When they tell you, “Consult with those who have familiar spirits and with the wizards, who chirp and who mutter:” shouldn’t a people consult with their God? Should they consult the dead on behalf of the living?

So Saul died for his trespass which he committed against Yahweh, because of Yahweh’s word, which he didn’t keep; and also because he asked counsel of one who had a familiar spirit, to inquire,

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, — read the full passage →

There shall not be found with you anyone who makes his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, one who uses divination, one who practices sorcery, or an enchanter, or a sorcerer, — read the full passage →

Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

“‘A man or a woman that is a medium, or is a wizard, shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them with stones. Their blood shall be upon them.’”

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

There shall not be found with you anyone who makes his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, one who uses divination, one who practices sorcery, or an enchanter, or a sorcerer,

Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

Jesus said to him, “Assuredly I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise.”

But I am in a dilemma between the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better.

He will wipe away from them every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more. The first things have passed away.”

For the time will come when they will not listen to the sound doctrine, but, having itching ears, will heap up for themselves teachers after their own lusts; — read the full passage →

No one has ascended into heaven, but he who descended out of heaven, the Son of Man, who is in heaven.

But Michael, the archangel, when contending with the devil and arguing about the body of Moses, dared not bring against him an abusive condemnation, but said, “May the Lord rebuke you!”

A reed like a rod was given to me. Someone said, “Rise, and measure God’s temple, and the altar, and those who worship in it. — read the full passage →

Another angel came and stood over the altar, having a golden censer. Much incense was given to him, that he should add it to the prayers of all the saints on the golden altar which was before the throne. — read the full passage →

May the Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain, — read the full passage →

In those days, the Philistines gathered their armies together for warfare, to fight with Israel. Achish said to David, “Know assuredly that you shall go out with me in the army, you and your men.” — read the full passage →

Pray like this: ‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy.

Therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, seeing that he lives forever to make intercession for them.

The priests the Levites, all the tribe of Levi, shall have no portion nor inheritance with Israel. They shall eat the offerings of Yahweh made by fire and his portion. — read the full passage →

David said to Achish, “Therefore you shall know what your servant will do.” Achish said to David, “Therefore will I make you my bodyguard for ever.”

For Yahweh your God has chosen him out of all your tribes, to stand to minister in Yahweh’s name, him and his sons for ever.

If anyone sees his brother sinning a sin not leading to death, he shall ask, and God will give him life for those who sin not leading to death. There is a sin leading to death. I don’t say that he should make a request concerning this.

Tongues like fire appeared and were distributed to them, and one sat on each of them.

For the living know that they will die, but the dead don’t know anything, neither do they have any more a reward; for their memory is forgotten.

He counts the number of the stars. He calls them all by their names. — read the full passage →

Let your beauty be not just the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on fine clothing;

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears open to their prayer; but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”

for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

“‘The person that turns to those who are mediums, and to the wizards, to play the prostitute after them, I will even set my face against that person, and will cut him off from among his people.

in which he also went and preached to the spirits in prison,

Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus,

He answered them, “I tell you that if these were silent, the stones would cry out.”

The dead don’t praise Yah, neither any who go down into silence;

But you have come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable multitudes of angels,

but if I wait long, that you may know how men ought to behave themselves in God’s house, which is the assembly of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

Brothers, I couldn’t speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ. — read the full passage →

Even so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner repenting.”

I tell you that even so there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, than over ninety-nine righteous people who need no repentance.

My spirit has rejoiced in God my Savior,

even as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and servants of the word delivered them to us,

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

I fell down before his feet to worship him. He said to me, “Look! Don’t do it! I am a fellow bondservant with you and with your brothers who hold the testimony of Jesus. Worship God, for the testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of Prophecy.”

who doesn’t need, like those high priests, to offer up sacrifices daily, first for his own sins, and then for the sins of the people. For he did this once for all, when he offered up himself.

God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”

Grace to you, and peace from God, our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he freely bestowed favor on us in the Beloved,

Much in every way! Because first of all, they were entrusted with the oracles of God.

Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see the Kingdom of God.”

Calling each one of his lord’s debtors to him, he said to the first, ‘How much do you owe to my lord?’

He told them this parable.

The Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, “This man welcomes sinners, and eats with them.”

This shall be the priests’ due from the people, from those who offer a sacrifice, whether it be ox or sheep, that they shall give to the priest the shoulder, the two cheeks, and the inner parts.

No one in heaven above, or on the earth, or under the earth, was able to open the book, or to look in it.

For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls.

Therefore we are always confident and know that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord; — read the full passage →

We are courageous, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.

His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. In that very day, his thoughts perish.

But the Spirit says expressly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons,

Pray like this: ‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy. — read the full passage →

There shall not be found with you anyone who makes his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, one who uses divination, one who practices sorcery, or an enchanter, or a sorcerer, — read the full passage →

But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

The soul who sins, he shall die: the son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son; the righteousness of the righteous shall be on him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be on him.

And no wonder, for even Satan masquerades as an angel of light.

Yahweh is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayer of the righteous.

“You shall not make for yourselves an idol, nor any image of anything that is in the heavens above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: — read the full passage →

In praying, don’t use vain repetitions, as the Gentiles do; for they think that they will be heard for their much speaking.

Seek Yahweh and his strength. Seek his face forever more.

For if we live, we live to the Lord. Or if we die, we die to the Lord. If therefore we live or die, we are the Lord’s.

Therefore as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; and so death passed to all men, because all sinned.

Behold, I tell you a mystery. We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed,

‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?’God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.”

When he opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been killed for the Word of God, and for the testimony of the Lamb which they had. — read the full passage →

“Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day. — read the full passage →

He said to them, “When you pray, say, ‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy. May your Kingdom come. May your will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.

For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior; — read the full passage →

Whatever you will ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. — read the full passage →

Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had lamented him, and buried him in Ramah, even in his own city. Saul had put away those who had familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land. — read the full passage →

When you have come into the land which Yahweh your God gives you, you shall not learn to imitate the abominations of those nations. — read the full passage →

with all prayer and requests, praying at all times in the Spirit, and being watchful to this end in all perseverance and requests for all the saints:

He seized the dragon, the old serpent, which is the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole inhabited earth, and bound him for a thousand years,

Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness, — read the full passage →