Spiritism

And when they say unto you, `Seek unto those having familiar spirits, And unto wizards, who chatter and mutter, Doth not a people seek unto its God? --For the living unto the dead!

`Ye do not turn unto those having familiar spirits; and unto wizards ye do not seek, for uncleanness by them; I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah your God.

Beloved, every spirit believe not, but prove the spirits, if of God they are, because many false prophets have gone forth to the world; — read the full passage →

Beloved, every spirit believe not, but prove the spirits, if of God they are, because many false prophets have gone forth to the world;

`When thou art coming in unto the land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee, thou dost not learn to do according to the abominations of those nations: — read the full passage →

And Saul dieth because of his trespass that he trespassed against Jehovah, against the word of Jehovah that he kept not, and also for asking at a familiar spirit--to inquire, --

`And a man or woman--when there is in them a familiar spirit, or who <FI>are<Fi> wizards--are certainly put to death; with stones they stone them; their blood <FI>is<Fi> on them.'

`And the person who turneth unto those having familiar spirits, and unto the wizards, to go a-whoring after them, I have even set My face against that person, and cut him off from the midst of his people.

and to fearful, and unstedfast, and abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all the liars, their part <FI>is<Fi> in the lake that is burning with fire and brimstone, which is a second death.'

as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them, in like manner to these, having given themselves to whoredom, and gone after other flesh, have been set before--an example, of fire age-during, justice suffering.

afterward the desire having conceived, doth give birth to sin, and the sin having been perfected, doth bring forth death.

And it came to pass in our going on to prayer, a certain maid, having a spirit of Python, did meet us, who brought much employment to her masters by soothsaying, — read the full passage →

For the living know that they die, and the dead know not anything, and there is no more to them a reward, for their remembrance hath been forgotten.

and many of those who had practised the curious arts, having brought the books together, were burning <FI>them<Fi> before all; and they reckoned together the prices of them, and found <FI>it<Fi> five myriads of silverlings;

`Ye are of a father--the devil, and the desires of your father ye will to do; he was a man-slayer from the beginning, and in the truth he hath not stood, because there is no truth in him; when one may speak the falsehood, of his own he speaketh, because he is a liar--also his father.

To the law and to the testimony! If not, let them say after this manner, `That there is no dawn to it.'

and it shall be, every soul that may not hear that prophet shall be utterly destroyed out of the people;

there is not found in thee one causing his son and his daughter to pass over into fire, a user of divinations, an observer of clouds, and an enchanter, and a sorcerer, — read the full passage →

she having followed Paul and us, was crying, saying, `These men are servants of the Most High God, who declare to us a way of salvation;'

And it came to pass in our going on to prayer, a certain maid, having a spirit of Python, did meet us, who brought much employment to her masters by soothsaying,

in this know ye the Spirit of God; every spirit that doth confess Jesus Christ in the flesh having come, of God it is, — read the full passage →

For we--wilfully sinning after the receiving the full knowledge of the truth--no more for sins doth there remain a sacrifice, — read the full passage →

for the wages of the sin <FI>is<Fi> death, and the gift of God <FI>is<Fi> life age-during in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Who is bringing forth chariot and horse, A force, even a strong one: `Together they lie down--they rise not, They have been extinguished, As flax they have been quenched.'

The dead praise not Jah, Nor any going down to silence.

And the serpent saith unto the woman, `Dying, ye do not die,

and without <FI>are<Fi> the dogs, and the sorcerers, and the whoremongers, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and every one who is loving and is doing a lie.

he who is not loving did not know God, because God is love. — read the full passage →

and saying, `Where is the promise of his presence? for since the fathers did fall asleep, all things so remain from the beginning of the creation;'

thou--thou dost believe that God is one; thou dost well, and the demons believe, and they shudder!

And manifest also are the works of the flesh, which are: Adultery, whoredom, uncleanness, lasciviousness, — read the full passage →

one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy; thou--who art thou that dost judge the other?

and as it is laid up to men once to die, and after this--judgment,

for <FI>it is<Fi> impossible for those once enlightened, having tasted also of the heavenly gift, and partakers having became of the Holy Spirit, — read the full passage →

henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of the righteousness that the Lord--the Righteous Judge--shall give to me in that day, and not only to me, but also to all those loving his manifestation.

because in him were the all things created, those in the heavens, and those upon the earth, those visible, and those invisible, whether thrones, whether lordships, whether principalities, whether authorities; all things through him, and for him, have been created,

and this she was doing for many days, but Paul having been grieved, and having turned, said to the spirit, `I command thee, in the name of Jesus Christ, to come forth from her;' and it came forth the same hour.

for David did not go up to the heavens, and he saith himself: The Lord saith to my lord, Sit thou at my right hand,

and if I go on and prepare for you a place, again do I come, and will receive you unto myself, that where I am ye also may be;

and the unclean spirits, when they were seeing him, were falling down before him, and were crying, saying--`Thou art the Son of God;'

`Go ye in through the strait gate, because wide <FI>is<Fi> the gate, and broad the way that is leading to the destruction, and many are those going in through it;

And Jonah prayeth unto Jehovah his God from the bowels of the fish.

`And they set their abominations in the house over which My name is called, so as to defile it;

For Thy kindness <FI>is<Fi> great toward me, And Thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.

Honoured are his sons, and he knoweth not; And they are little, and he attendeth not to them.

and he hath caused his son to pass through fire, and observed clouds, and used enchantment, and dealt with a familiar spirit and wizards; he hath multiplied to do the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah--to provoke to anger.

and cause their sons and their daughters to pass over through fire, and divine divinations, and use enchantments, and sell themselves to do the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah, to provoke Him;

and if any one was not found written in the scroll of the life, he was cast to the lake of the fire.

and the sea did give up those dead in it, and the death and the hades did give up the dead in them, and they were judged, each one according to their works;

and the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who did the signs before him, in which he led astray those who did receive the mark of the beast, and those who did bow before his image; living they were cast--the two--to the lake of the fire, that is burning with brimstone;

And there came war in the heaven; Michael and his messengers did war against the dragon, and the dragon did war, and his messengers, — read the full passage →

After these things I saw, and lo, a great multitude, which to number no one was able, out of all nations, and tribes, and peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne, and before the Lamb, arrayed in white robes, and palms in their hands, — read the full passage →

and he who is living, and I did become dead, and, lo, I am living to the ages of the ages. Amen! and I have the keys of the hades and of the death.

These are in your love-feasts craggy rocks; feasting together with you, without fear shepherding themselves; clouds without water, by winds carried about; trees autumnal, without fruit, twice dead, rooted up;

If any one may see his brother sinning a sin not unto death, he shall ask, and He shall give to him life to those sinning not unto death; there is sin to death, not concerning it do I speak that he may beseech;

and we--we have known and believed the love, that God hath in us; God is love, and he who is remaining in the love, in God he doth remain, and God in him. — read the full passage →

and these, as irrational natural beasts, made to be caught and destroyed--in what things they are ignorant of, speaking evil--in their destruction shall be destroyed,

And there did come also false prophets among the people, as also among you there shall be false teachers, who shall bring in besides destructive sects, and the Master who bought them denying, bringing to themselves quick destruction,

Be sober, vigilant, because your opponent the devil, as a roaring lion, doth walk about, seeking whom he may swallow up,

for also our God <FI>is<Fi> a consuming fire.

Seeing, then, the children have partaken of flesh and blood, he himself also in like manner did take part of the same, that through death he might destroy him having the power of death--that is, the devil--

and him who was made some little less than messengers we see--Jesus--because of the suffering of the death, with glory and honour having been crowned, that by the grace of God for every one he might taste of death.

I do fully testify, then, before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who is about to judge living and dead at his manifestation and his reign--

because he who is sowing to his own flesh, of the flesh shall reap corruption; and he who is sowing to the Spirit, of the Spirit shall reap life age-during;

and that he was buried, and that he hath risen on the third day, according to the Writings,

for I delivered to you first, what also I did receive, that Christ died for our sins, according to the Writings,

For in our being still ailing, Christ in due time did die for the impious; — read the full passage →

to seek the Lord, if perhaps they did feel after Him and find, --though, indeed, He is not far from each one of us,

And Saul was assenting to his death, and there came in that day a great persecution upon the assembly in Jerusalem, all also were scattered abroad in the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles; — read the full passage →

and there is not salvation in any other, for there is no other name under the heaven that hath been given among men, in which it behoveth us to be saved.'

having foreseen, he did speak concerning the rising again of the Christ, that his soul was not left to hades, nor did his flesh see corruption.

Jesus saith to him, `I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one doth come unto the Father, if not through me;

`Let not your heart be troubled, believe in God, also in me believe;

And there was a man of the Pharisees, Nicodemus his name, a ruler of the Jews,

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God;

and having called with a loud voice, he said, `What--to me and to thee, Jesus, Son of God the Most High? I adjure thee by God, mayest thou not afflict me!'

and if a kingdom against itself be divided, that kingdom cannot be made to stand; — read the full passage →

Then shall he say also to those on the left hand, Go ye from me, the cursed, to the fire, the age-during, that hath been prepared for the Devil and his messengers;

And he saith: I called, because of my distress, to Jehovah, And He doth answer me, From the belly of sheol I have cried, Thou hast heard my voice.

Daniel hath answered before the king and said, `The secret that the king is asking, the wise men, the enchanters, the scribes, the soothsayers, are not able to shew to the king;

All knowing thee among the peoples Have been astonished at thee, Wastes thou hast been, and thou art not--to the age.'

Lo, all the souls are Mine, As the soul of the father, So also the soul of the son--they are Mine, The soul that is sinning--it doth die.

And they build the high places of Baal, that <FI>are<Fi> in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through to Molech, which I did not command them, nor did it come up on my heart to do this abomination, so as to cause Judah to sin.

and have built the high places of Baal to burn their sons with fire, burnt-offerings to Baal, that I commanded not, nor spake of, nor did it come up on My heart.

For Thou <FI>art<Fi> our Father, For Abraham hath not known us, And Israel doth not acknowledge us, Thou, O Jehovah, <FI>art<Fi> our Father, Our redeemer from the age, <FI>is<Fi> Thy name.

And Jehovah hath delighted to bruise him, He hath made him sick, If his soul doth make an offering for guilt, He seeth seed--he prolongeth days, And the pleasure of Jehovah in his hand doth prosper.

For Sheol doth not confess Thee, Death doth not praise Thee, Those going down to the pit hope not for Thy truth.

Only--unto Sheol thou art brought down, Unto the sides of the pit. — read the full passage →

Sheol beneath hath been troubled at thee, To meet thy coming in, It is waking up for thee Rephaim, All chiefs ones of earth, It hath raised up from their thrones All kings of nations.

Their love also, their hatred also, their envy also, hath already perished, and they have no more a portion to the age in all that hath been done under the sun.

Jehovah preserveth all those loving Him, And all the wicked He destroyeth.

Desolations <FI>are<Fi> upon them, They go down <FI>to<Fi> Sheol--alive, For wickedness <FI>is<Fi> in their dwelling, in their midst.

Only, God doth ransom my soul from the hand of Sheol, For He doth receive me. Selah.

For evil doers are cut off, As to those waiting on Jehovah, they possess the land. — read the full passage →

For Thou dost not leave my soul to Sheol, Nor givest thy saintly one to see corruption.

For there is not in death Thy memorial, In Sheol, who doth give thanks to Thee?

Therefore, O men of heart, hearken to me; Far be it from God to do wickedness, And <FI>from<Fi> the Mighty to do perverseness:

O that in Sheol Thou wouldest conceal me, Hide me till the turning of Thine anger, Set for me a limit, and remember me.

`Is mortal man than God more righteous? Than his Maker is a man cleaner?

And also, those having familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the teraphim, and the idols, and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah, and in Jerusalem, hath Josiah put away, in order to establish the words of the law that are written on the book that Hilkiah the priest hath found in the house of Jehovah.