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They shall be holy to their God and not profane the name of their God. For they offer the fire offerings of Jehovah, the bread of their God. Therefore they shall be holy.

Verse ConceptsCripplesHoliness Of MinistersIrreverenceMinisters, Should BeProfaning God's NameMaking People Holy

Her priests did violence to my law, and they will profane my holy place: between the holy to the profane they separated not, and they did not make known between the unclean to the clean, and from my Sabbath they hid their eyes, and I shall be profaned in the midst of them.

Verse ConceptsAtonement, in OTHoliness,  Worldly SeparationPriests, Function In Ot TimesUnfaithfulness, To GodCorrupt PriestsClean And UncleanSabbath ViolatedThey Do Not Keep CommandsLack Of Holiness

Neither shall he go out of the sanctuary, nor profane the sanctuary of his God; for the crown of the anointing oil of his God is on him. I am Jehovah.

Verse ConceptsGoing OutsideAnointing PriestsI Am The Lord

In the abundance of your trading, they filled the midst of you [with] violence, and you sinned; and I cast you as a profane thing from the mountain of God, and I expelled you, [the] guardian cherub, from the midst of [the] stones of fire.

Verse ConceptsProfanityTradeUnity, God's Goal OfPursuing ViolenceAngelsJudgment Of DemonsJudgment Of Fallen Angels

Or else I will be satisfied and will deny [him] and say "Who [is] Yahweh?" Or I will be poor and will steal and profane the name of my God.

Verse ConceptsIrreverenceDenying GodProfaning God's NameShortagesWho Is God?The poorBeing Contentdenial

"'They shall not marry a woman who is a prostitute, or profane; neither shall they marry a woman divorced from her husband: for he is holy to his God.

Verse Conceptsdivorce, in OTDefilement, By SinPriests, Function In Ot TimesProstitutionDivorceMarriage ControlledMaking People HolyMarriage Kjvwhores

Speak unto the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord GOD; Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the pride of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pities; and your sons and your daughters whom you have left behind shall fall by the sword.

Verse ConceptsFortressesKilled With The SwordChildren SufferingPolluting Holy Places

As for you, O house of Israel, thus saith the Lord GOD; Go ye, serve ye every one his idols, and hereafter also, if ye will not hearken to me: but profane ye my holy name no more with your gifts, and with your idols.

Verse ConceptsGiftsIrreverenceProfanityProfaning God's NameNot Worshipping IdolsPaying Attention To GodMisusing God's Name

So are the paths of all forgetting God, And the hope of the profane doth perish,

Verse ConceptsHope, Of The WickedFalse HopesCharacter Of Wicked

Did not your fathers thus, and our God will bring all this evil upon us, and upon this city? and ye are adding burning upon Israel to profane the Sabbath.

Verse ConceptsSabbath Violated

How often is it that the lamp of the profane is put out, that their calamity comes upon them, that [God] distributes sorrows in his anger,

Verse ConceptsLampsAfflictions Of The WickedProsperity Of The Wicked

Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against a profane nation. O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.

Verse Conceptsenemies, of believersInjustice, Hated By GodRescueGod Vindicatesvindication


Therefore the Lord does not rejoice over their young men,
Nor does He have compassion on their fatherless or their widows;
For every one of them is godless and an evildoer,
And every mouth is speaking foolishness.
In spite of all this, God’s anger does not turn away
But His hand is still stretched out [in judgment].

Verse ConceptsOrphansSin, Nature OfWidowsDecadenceGod's HandVirtues Of Young PeopleGod's Hands Stretched OutLack Of RejoicingNot Helping WidowsHypocrisy

And I will set My face against that man, and will cut him off from among his people, because he has given of his seed to Molech, to defile My sanctuary, and to profane My holy name.

Verse ConceptsFace Of GodOpposition, To Sin And EvilSanctuaryProfaning God's NameGod OpposingPolluting Holy PlacesThose To Be Cut Off From Israel

He shall not take a widow or a divorced woman, or profane, or a harlot, but he shall take a virgin of his own people to wife.

Verse ConceptsProfanityDivorceMarriage Controlledvirginity

Only he shall not go in to the veil, nor come near to the altar, because he has a blemish; so that he does not profane My sanctuaries. For I, Jehovah, do sanctify them.

Verse ConceptsNot Coming Near To GodI Am The LordMaking People Holy

Speak to Aaron and to his sons, that they set themselves apart from the holy things of the sons of Israel, and that they do not profane My holy name in what they devote to Me. I am Jehovah.

Verse ConceptsIrreverenceProfaning God's NameI Am The Lord

And they shall not profane the holy things of the sons of Israel which they offer to Jehovah,

Verse ConceptsDesecration

Happy [is the] man [who] does this, and [the] son of humankind [who] keeps hold of it, who keeps [the] Sabbath {so as not to profane} it, and who keeps his hand from doing any evil."

Verse ConceptsCommendationethics, personalLaw, Ten CommandmentsSabbath, In OtSabbath Observed

And the {foreigners} [who] join themselves to Yahweh to serve him and to love the name of Yahweh, to become his servants, every one who keeps [the] Sabbath, {so as not to profane} it, and those who keep hold of my covenant,

Verse ConceptsForeignersUnited With GodForeigners Included Among The PeopleStrangers in israelImmigrantsAliens

And [as for] you, profane one, wicked prince of Israel, whose day has come with [the] time of [the] punishment of [the] end,

Verse ConceptsThe Day Of Judgement

when seeing a false vision for you in vain, when practicing divination for you falsely, to give you on [the] neck of [the] profane ones of [the] wicked, {whose day has come}, {the time of final punishment}.

Verse ConceptsFalse VisionsFalse WaysProphesying Lies

and when they slaughtered their children for their idols, they came to my sanctuary on that day to profane it. And look, {this is what they did in my house}!

Verse ConceptsAt The Same TimeFood Offered To IdolsKilling Sons And Daughters

At your bringing {foreigners} [who are] uncircumcised of heart and uncircumcised of flesh to be in my sanctuary to profane it, my temple, {as you offered my food, fat, and blood}, so you broke my covenant by all of your detestable things.

Verse ConceptsBlood Of SacrificesPollutionsForeigners In The Holy PlacesBreaking The CovenantFat Of The SacrificesUncircumcised In HeartCovenant Made At Sinai

And military forces from him {will occupy} and will profane the {sanctuary stronghold}, and they will abolish the regular burnt offering, and they will set up the abomination that causes desolation.

Verse ConceptsAbominationsAbolitionAbomination Of DesolationAnimal Sacrifices, Sin OfferingImage Of The Beast

Those who trample the heads of the powerless into the dust of the ground and turn aside the way of the destitute, a man and his father {have sexual relations with} the same girl, so that [they] profane my holy name.

Verse ConceptsIrreverenceLawsuitsProfanityHarlotsTrampling PeopleDust On The HeadProfaning God's NameHumble PeopleNot Helping The PoorMisusing God's Name

You shall bear no sin by reason of it, when you have heaved from it its best: and you shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, that you not die.'"

Verse ConceptsSacrilegeDeath Due To God's PresenceNot Guilty

Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said to them, "What evil thing is this that you do, and profane the Sabbath day?

Verse ConceptsNoblesProfanityAnger, Justified ExamplesDisputesSabbath Violated

"'Don't profane your daughter, to make her a prostitute; lest the land fall to prostitution, and the land become full of wickedness.

Verse ConceptsdaughtersLove, In RelationshipsProstitutionRightsSexual Sin, Nature OfSexualityHarlotsProvokingTattoos Being Okwhores

He shall not defile himself, being a chief man among his people, to profane himself.

Verse ConceptsPollution Forbidden

He shall not profane his seed among his people: for I am Yahweh who sanctifies him.'"

Verse ConceptsI Am The LordMaking People Holy

"'They shall therefore follow my requirements, lest they bear sin for it, and die therein, if they profane it. I am Yahweh who sanctifies them.

Verse ConceptsPriests, Function In Ot TimesRitual LawSin BearerStewardshipDeath Due To God's PresenceI Am The LordMaking People Holy

I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people who anger me will I give him a command to take the spoil and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

Verse ConceptsPlunderingGodlessnessNationalismTrampling People

Therefore I will profane the princes of the sanctuary; and I will make Jacob a curse, and Israel an insult."

Verse ConceptsJacob, The Patriarch

for both prophet and priest are profane; yes, in my house have I found their wickedness, says Yahweh.

Verse ConceptsLeaders, SpiritualWicked ProphetsPeople Being Unclean

And will you profane me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to slay the souls that should not die, and to save the souls alive that should not live, by your lying to my people that hear your lies?

Verse ConceptsGrainListeningTemptressesKept Alive By MenProphesying LiesRemaining FoodMisusing God's NameKilling Israelitesmagic

I will hand these things over
to foreigners as plunder
and to the wicked of the earth as spoil,
and they will profane them.

Verse ConceptsForeignersSuffering From ForeignersProsperity Of The Wicked

And I will make My holy name known in the midst of My people Israel. And I will not let them profane My holy name any more. And the nations shall know that I am Jehovah, the Holy One in Israel.

Verse ConceptsGod, Zeal OfHoliness, Purpose OfMission, Of IsraelProfanitySanctification, Nature And BasisProclaiming God’s NameGod's Things Revealed

if they profane My Precepts, and do not keep My Commandments;

Verse ConceptsIf You Do Not Keep Commands

The sinners in Zion are afraid; terror has surprised profane ones. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? Who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?

Verse ConceptsEternal DeathGuilt, Human Aspects OfHell, Punishment OfHell, Description OfPunishment, By GodSinnersUngodlinessGuilty FearTerror Of God

And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by playing the whore, she profaneth her father: she shall be burnt with fire.

Verse ConceptsdaughtersCremationAdulterersProfanityProstitutionPunishment, Legal Aspects OfHarlotsBurning Peoplebranding

If you make an altar of stone for Me, you shall not build it of cut stones, for if you wield your tool on it, you will profane it.

Verse ConceptsAltars, Made OfDefilement, Ceremonial CausesArchitectureToolsCutting StonesLack Of Holiness

and so as to make a distinction between the holy and the profane, and between the unclean and the clean,

Verse ConceptsDiscernment, Nature OfPriests, Function In Ot TimesRitual LawMan DifferentiatingClean And Unclean

From the reigning of a profane man, From the snares of a people;

Verse ConceptsHypocrisy

He measured it by the four sides: it had a wall around, five hundred reeds long, and five hundred broad, to make a separation between the sanctuary and the profane place.

Verse ConceptsSquaresFour CornersDimensions Of WallsFour SidesMeasuring Jerusalem And The LandLack Of Holiness

And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.

Verse ConceptsHoliness,  Worldly SeparationPriests, Function In Ot TimesTeachersMan DifferentiatingClean And UncleanTeaching The Way Of GodDiscernment

And the five thousand, that are left in the breadth over against the five and twenty thousand, shall be a profane place for the city, for dwelling, and for suburbs, and the city shall be in the midst of it.

Verse ConceptsMeasuring Jerusalem And The Land

Boiling over like water, thou mayest not have pre-eminence, Because thou didst mount the bed of thy father, - Then, wast thou profane - My marriage-bed, he mounted!

Verse ConceptsFicklenessRash People

If a man makes a vow to the Lord or swears an oath to bind himself with a pledge [of abstinence], he shall not break (violate, profane) his word; he shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.

Verse ConceptsCovenant ObligationsCovenant breakersFaithfulness, To GodFaithfulness, In Human RelationshipsGuaranteeOaths, HumanPerjuryPledgesUnfaithfulness, To PeopleVowsVowsBindingMaking VowsSwearingfreemasonry

Jehovah of armies purposed it to profane the pride of all glory, to make light all the honored of the earth.

Verse ConceptsendHumilitySuperiorityHumbling The ProudGod Opposes The ProudGod's Plans

And ye profane not the land which ye are in, for blood profaneth the land; as to the land, it is not pardoned for blood which is shed in it except by the blood of him who sheddeth it;

Verse ConceptsCovenant, God's with NoahAtonement, in OTSheddingHuman Blood ShedPolluting The LandLifebloodAtoning By SacrificesJudgement On MurderersThe Environmentcleansing

Also -- He is to me for salvation, For the profane cometh not before Him.

Verse ConceptsThe Wicked Will PerishHypocrisydeliverance

For the company of the profane is gloomy, And fire hath consumed tents of bribery.

Verse ConceptsBribery, Is SinGodlessnessTentsHypocrisy

Astonished are the upright at this, And the innocent against the profane Stirreth himself up.

Verse ConceptsPeople Appalled

That the singing of the wicked is short, And the joy of the profane for a moment,

Verse ConceptsemptinessTransient WorldProsperity Of The WickedHypocrisy

From the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffic, thou didst profane my holy places; and I will bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall consume thee, and I will give thee for ashes upon the earth before the eyes of all seeing thee.

Verse ConceptsAshesMoney, Stewardship OfSanctuaryTradeTrustworthinessFire Of Judgement

And he will come to the nations where they came in there, and they will profane my holy name in saying to them, These the people of Jehovah, and they went forth from their land.

Verse ConceptsReproachHoliness, Purpose OfOther People Of GodMisusing God's Name

"But you profane it, in that you say, 'Yahweh's table is polluted, and its fruit, even its food, is contemptible.'

Verse ConceptsProfanityProfaning God's NameMisusing God's NameUnclean Things

Thou didst reject the covenant of thy servant: thou didst profane to the earth his consecration.

Verse ConceptsLater Covenants With God

Therefore behold me! bringing upon thee aliens, The terrible ones of the nations,- And they shall unsheathe their swords over the beauty of thy wisdom, And profane thy splendour:

Verse ConceptsForeignersSuffering From ForeignersLosing HonourPeople Without Mercy

You will profane yourself in the sight of the nations, and you will know that I am the Lord.”’”

saying, I have not sinned, nor committed unrighteousness, nor had fellowship with workers of iniquity to go with the profane.

Verse ConceptsParticipation, In SinEvildoersCompanionship

His ways are profane at all times. Thy judgments are far above out of his sight. As for all his adversaries, he puffs at them.

Verse ConceptsNosesPride, Results OfSelf Righteousness, Nature OfNot Seeing Spiritual ThingsThe Wicked Prosperrehabilitationprospering

I prescribed great things from my Law for them, but they considered them profane.

Verse ConceptsForeign ThingsThe Law Given To IsraelOld Testament Claims Inspiration

He said to me: "Son of man, this is the place of my throne and the place for the soles of my feet, where I will live among the people of Israel forever. The house of Israel will no longer profane my holy name, neither they nor their kings, by their spiritual prostitution or by the pillars of their kings set up when they die.

Verse ConceptsGod, Human Descriptions OfCarcass, Figurative UseHigh PlacesNames And Titles For The ChurchGod Living With UsProfaning God's NameSpiritual HarlotryCare Of FeetRules About Corpses


For the fool speaks nonsense,
And his heart (mind) plans wickedness:
To practice ungodliness and to speak error concerning the Lord,
To keep the craving of the hungry unsatisfied
And to deprive the thirsty of drink.

Verse ConceptsFools, Characteristics OfMind, The HumanMorality, And CreationSin, Nature OfHypocrites, Description OfMischiefBeing MisleadStingy PeopleErrorHypocrisy

And I will sanctify my great name, which was profaned among the nations, which you have profaned in the midst of them; and the nations shall know that I am the LORD, says the Lord GOD, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.

Verse ConceptsGod, Greatness OfMission, Of IsraelProfaning God's NameHoliness

And say unto the Ammonites, Hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus says the Lord GOD; Because you said, Aha, against my sanctuary, when it was profaned; and against the land of Israel, when it was desolate; and against the house of Judah, when they went into captivity;

Verse ConceptsExile Of Judah To BabylonPolluting Holy PlacesRejoicing In Evil


‘Will you still say, “I am a god,”
In the presence of him who kills you?
But you are [only] a man [made of earth] and not God,
In the hands of those who wound and profane you.

Verse ConceptsMen As Godsartists

Judah has been faithless, and a detestable thing has been done in Israel and in Jerusalem. Judah has profaned the sanctuary of Yahweh which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.

Verse ConceptsFaithfulness, In Human RelationshipsMarriage, Restrictions ConcerningPolygamySanctuaryLoving God's Things

Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord GOD; I do this not for your sakes, O house of Israel, but for my holy name's sake, which you have profaned among the nations, where you went.

Verse ConceptsNot For The SakeMisusing God's Name

O God, nations, Have entered thine inheritance, Have profaned thy holy temple, - Have laid Jerusalem in heaps:

Verse ConceptsInvasionsIrreverenceDestruction Of JerusalemPolluting Holy PlacesNations Attacking Israel

Indeed, it magnified itself to be equal with the Commander of the host [of heaven]; and it took away from Him the daily sacrifice (burnt offering), and the place of His sanctuary was thrown down (profaned).

Verse ConceptsPrincesDestruction Of The Temple

Because they have forsaken me, and have profaned this place, and have burned incense in it unto other gods, whom neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents;

Verse ConceptsMonotheismSacrifice, In OtKilling The InnocentUnknown GodsDifferent Gods

Because my regulations, they had rejected. And as for my statutes, they had not walked therein, My sabbaths also, had they profaned; or after their manufactured gods, their heart had been going.

Verse ConceptsRejecting ThingsNature Of IdolatrySabbath ViolatedThey Do Not Keep Commands

Because my regulations, had they not done And my statutes, they had rejected, My sabbaths also, they had profaned,- And after the manufactured gods of their fathers, were their eyes turned.

Verse ConceptsIdol WorshipSabbath ViolatedThey Do Not Keep Commands

And anyone that eats it shall bear his iniquity, because he has profaned the holy thing of Jehovah. And that soul shall be cut off from among his people.

Verse ConceptsProfanitySacrilegeThose To Be Cut Off From Israel

I was angry with my people; I profaned my inheritance, and I gave them into your hand. You did not {give} them mercy; on [the] aged you made your yoke very heavy.

Verse ConceptsMercy, HumanOld Age, Attitudes ToYokesDisrespect For Old AgeOppressorsJudgement On Old PeoplePeople Without Mercyrelentless

And {I will first doubly repay} their iniquity and their sin because of their profaning my land with the dead bodies of their abhorrences, and [with] their abominations they have filled up my inheritance.'"

Verse ConceptsFalse ReligionCarcass, Literal UseAbominations, Idolatry IsPolluting The LandDouble Penalty

But you turned back and you profaned my name when you brought back each one his [male] slave and each one his female slave, whom you had let go free according to their desire, and you subdued them to be to you as [male] slaves and as female slaves.'

Verse ConceptsIrreverencePeople Changing Their MindsMaking Slaves

"But I acted for the sake of my name {to keep it from being profaned} before the eyes of the nations {among whom they lived}, where I made known to them before their eyes, to bring them out from the land of Egypt.

Verse ConceptsGod, Zeal OfKnowing God, Nature OfProfaning God's NameBringing People Out Of Other PlacesLooking At God's Works

"But in the desert the house of Israel rebelled against me; {they did not walk in my statutes}, and they rejected my regulations, which, if a person does them, he will live by them, and they greatly profaned my Sabbaths, and I decided to pour out my rage on them in the desert to destroy them,

Verse ConceptsRejection Of GodSabbath, In OtJudgement In The WildernessIf You Keep The CommandmentsLife Through Keeping The LawSabbath ViolatedWorks Of The LawRebellion against God

and I acted for the sake of my name, [that it] not be profaned before the eyes of the nations {before whom I brought them out}.

Verse ConceptsProfaning God's NameBringing People Out Of Other PlacesLooking At God's Works

But I withheld my hand, and I acted for the sake of my name not to be profaned before the eyes of the nations [before] whom I [had] brought them out before their eyes.

Verse ConceptsProfaning God's NameBringing People Out Of Other PlacesLooking At God's Works

They have burned your sanctuary to the ground. They have profaned the dwelling place of your Name.

Verse ConceptsBurning JerusalemLack Of Holiness

You shall keep the Sabbath therefore; for it is holy to you. Everyone who profanes it shall surely be put to death; for whoever does any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.

Verse ConceptsBanishmentSabbath, In OtGoldsmithsHoly TimesSabbath ObservedThose To Be Cut Off From IsraelLack Of Holiness