84 Bible Verses about Abominations

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Proverbs 6:16-19

Jehovah hates these six things: Yes, seven are an abomination to him: A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, A heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that run quickly to badness,read more.
A false witness that speaks lies, and he that sows discord among brothers.

Leviticus 7:18

If any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings is eaten on the third day, he who offers it will not be accepted. It will not be considered for his benefit. It will be an offensive thing, and the person who eats of it will bear his own iniquity.

Daniel 11:31

His armed forces will stand with him, and they will profane the sanctuary, even the fortress, and will take away the continual burnt offering. They will set up the abomination that makes desolate.

Deuteronomy 17:1

Never offer a bull or a sheep that has a defect or anything seriously wrong with it as a sacrifice to Jehovah your God. That is an abomination to him.

1 Kings 11:5

Solomon went after Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Zidonians, and Milcom, the disgusting god of the Ammonites.

Daniel 12:11

From the time that the continual burnt offering will be taken away, and the abomination that makes desolate set up, there will be a thousand and two hundred and ninety days.

Deuteronomy 22:5

A woman must not wear man's clothing or a man women's clothing. The person who does these things is an abomination to Jehovah your God.

Genesis 43:32

Joseph was served at a table by himself. His brothers were served at another. The Egyptians sat at yet another table. This is because Egyptians felt it was disgusting to eat with Hebrews.

Deuteronomy 7:25

Burn the carved images of their gods with fire. Do not covet the silver or the gold that is on them. Do not take it for yourselves, or you will be snared by it. It is an abomination to Jehovah your God.

Daniel 9:27

He will make a firm covenant with many for one week (time period of seven). In the middle of the week he will cause the sacrifice and the offerings to cease. The one that makes desolate will come upon the wing of abominations. At the end that which is decreed will be poured out upon the one lying desolate.

Genesis 46:34

Be sure to tell him that you have taken care of livestock all your lives, just as your ancestors did. In this way he will let you live in the region of Goshen. Joseph said this because Egyptians will have nothing to do with shepherds (consider shepherds loathsome).

Isaiah 1:13

Do not bring any more worthless grain offerings. Your incense is disgusting to me! So are your New Moon Festivals, your days of worship, and the assemblies you call. I cannot endure your evil assemblies!

Leviticus 7:21

When someone touches anything unclean, whether human uncleanness, or an unclean animal, or any unclean detestable thing, and eats of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings which belong to Jehovah, that person shall be cut off from his people.'

Deuteronomy 23:18

Do not bring the hire (fee) of a harlot or the wages of a dog into the house of Jehovah your God for any vow offering. Both of these are an abomination to Jehovah your God.

1 Kings 14:24

There were also male (cult) prostitutes in the temples of idols throughout the land. The people of Judah practiced all the disgusting practices done by the nations that Jehovah forced out of the Israelites' way.

Matthew 24:15

When you see the disgusting abomination of desolation (unclean thing) spoken about through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (let him that reads understand),

Mark 13:14

When you see the unclean thing that makes desolation standing where he ought not (let the reader use discernment), then let them that are in Judea flee to the mountains.

Proverbs 29:27

An unjust man is an abomination (disgusting) to the righteous. He who is upright in the way is an abomination (detestable) to the wicked.

Leviticus 11:20

Every swarming, winged insect that walks across the ground like a four-legged animal is disgusting to you.

Leviticus 11:23

Every kind of winged insect that walks across the ground like a four-legged animal is disgusting to you.

Leviticus 11:41

Any creature that swarms on the ground is disgusting and must not be eaten.

Leviticus 11:42

Do not eat any creature with many legs that goes on its belly or on the ground like a four-legged animal, or any creature that swarms on the ground. Consider them disgusting.

Isaiah 66:17

People make themselves holy and prepare themselves for their garden rituals. They go into the garden and devour pork, disgusting things, and mice. They will come to an end at the same time, declares Jehovah.

Deuteronomy 27:15

Cursed is the man who makes an idol or a molten image. It is an abomination to Jehovah! It is the secret work of the hands of the craftsman. All the people will answer: Amen.

2 Kings 23:13

The king made the illegal places of worship east of Jerusalem unclean. They were on the southern part of the Hill of Destruction. King Solomon of Israel built them for Astarte the disgusting goddess of the Sidonians. Also made unclean were references to Chemosh the disgusting god of Moab, and Milcom the disgusting god of the Ammonites.

Proverbs 15:8

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to Jehovah! The prayer of the upright is his delight.

Isaiah 44:19

No one stops to think. No one has enough knowledge or understanding to say: I burned half of the wood in the fire. I also baked bread over its coals. I roasted meat and ate it. Now I am making the rest of the wood into a disgusting thing and bowing to a block of wood.

Jeremiah 32:35

In the valley of Ben Hinnom they built worship sites for Baal to sacrifice their sons and daughters to Molech. I did not ask them to do this. It never entered my heart (mind). I did not make Judah sin.'

Ezekiel 22:11

Some commit adultery, and others seduce their daughters-in-law or their half sisters.

Proverbs 3:32

Jehovah hates people who do evil. He takes righteous people into his confidence.

Deuteronomy 22:23-24

Suppose there is a girl who is a virgin engaged to a man, and another man has sexual relations with her. You must bring them both out to the gate of that city and you must stone them to death! The girl did not protest what was happening and the man has violated his neighbor's woman. Thus you shall purge the evil from among you.

Exodus 10:2

I did this because I want you to tell your children and your grandchildren about the mighty things and the signs I have done in Egypt. Then all of you will know that I am Jehovah.

Deuteronomy 12:31

Do not behave this way toward Jehovah your God, for every abominable act Jehovah hates they have done for their gods. They even burn their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.

Leviticus 11:13

Here are the kinds of birds you must consider disgusting and must not eat. They are eagles, bearded vultures, black vultures,

Exodus 8:26

Moses replied: It is not right to do that. The sacrifices we offer to Jehovah our God are disgusting to Egyptians. If they see us offer sacrifices that they consider disgusting, will they not stone us to death?

Exodus 21:7

When a man sells his daughter into slavery, she will not go free the way male slaves do.

Mark 7:20-23

That which comes out of the man defiles the man. It is from the heart that evil thoughts come such as: fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries, coveting, wickedness, deceit, loose conduct, envy, slander, pride, and foolishness.read more.
All these evil things come from within and defile the man.

Deuteronomy 24:1-4

When a man marries a woman and later decides he does not love her because he found something he does not like about her he writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out from his house. She leaves his house and becomes another man's wife. If the latter husband turns against her and writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, or if the latter husband dies who took her to be his wife,read more.
her former husband who sent her away is not allowed to take her again to be his wife. She has been defiled. That is an abomination before Jehovah, and you shall not bring sin on the land Jehovah your God gives you as an inheritance.

Jeremiah 6:15

Are they ashamed because of the abomination they have done? They are not even ashamed! Not at all! They do not even know how to blush. Therefore they will fall among those who fall. When I punish them, they will be cast down, says Jehovah.

Deuteronomy 25:13-16

Do not have differing weights, a large and a small, in your bag. Do not have in your house differing measures, a large and a small. You must have a full and just weight. You should have a full and just measure, that your days may be prolonged in the land Jehovah your God gives you.read more.
Everyone who does these things, everyone who acts unjustly is an abomination to Jehovah your God.

Leviticus 11:12

Every creature in the water without fins or scales is offensive to you.

Leviticus 20:14

When a man marries a woman and her mother, they have done a perverted thing. The man and the two women must be burned. Never do this perverted thing.

Deuteronomy 7:25-26

Burn the carved images of their gods with fire. Do not covet the silver or the gold that is on them. Do not take it for yourselves, or you will be snared by it. It is an abomination to Jehovah your God. Do not bring an abomination into your house. You must utterly detest it and you must utterly abhor it, for it is something banned.

Leviticus 18:29

Whoever does any of these disgusting things must be excluded from the people.

Exodus 8:22

At that same time I will cut off the land of Goshen where my people live. No swarms of flies shall be there. / Then you will know that I am Jehovah in the midst of the earth.

Proverbs 6:16

Jehovah hates these six things: Yes, seven are an abomination to him:

Leviticus 11:10-13

On the other hand, you must consider all swarming creatures living in the seas or the streams that have no fins or scales disgusting. They must remain disgusting to you. Never eat their meat. Consider their dead bodies repulsive. Every creature in the water without fins or scales is offensive to you.read more.
Here are the kinds of birds you must consider disgusting and must not eat. They are eagles, bearded vultures, black vultures,

Leviticus 11:10-12

On the other hand, you must consider all swarming creatures living in the seas or the streams that have no fins or scales disgusting. They must remain disgusting to you. Never eat their meat. Consider their dead bodies repulsive. Every creature in the water without fins or scales is offensive to you.

Leviticus 11:11

They must remain disgusting to you. Never eat their meat. Consider their dead bodies repulsive.

Deuteronomy 7:26

Do not bring an abomination into your house. You must utterly detest it and you must utterly abhor it, for it is something banned.

Exodus 35:2

You may work for six days. The seventh day is a holy day of worship (a Sabbath). It is a day when you do not work. It is dedicated to Jehovah. Whoever does any work on this day should be put to death.

Leviticus 11:10

On the other hand, you must consider all swarming creatures living in the seas or the streams that have no fins or scales disgusting.

Galatians 3:23-25

But before faith came the Law held us in custody. We were locked up until faith was revealed. The Law was our schoolmaster (Greek: paedagogue: a combination of schoolmaster, instructor, servant and guardian in charge of us) to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith. Now that faith has come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.

Deuteronomy 18:12

Jehovah your God hates people who do these disgusting things. That is why he is driving those nations out of the land as you advance.

Jeremiah 32:34

They set up their detestable idols in the Temple that is called by my name, and they dishonored it.

Ezekiel 8:6

He asked me: Son of man, do you see what the people of Israel are doing? The people of Israel are doing very disgusting things here, things that will force me to go far away from my holy place. But you will see even more disgusting things.

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Isaiah 44:19

No one stops to think. No one has enough knowledge or understanding to say: I burned half of the wood in the fire. I also baked bread over its coals. I roasted meat and ate it. Now I am making the rest of the wood into a disgusting thing and bowing to a block of wood.

Jeremiah 32:34

They set up their detestable idols in the Temple that is called by my name, and they dishonored it.

Topics on Abominations

Abominations, Ceremonial Matters

Isaiah 66:17

People make themselves holy and prepare themselves for their garden rituals. They go into the garden and devour pork, disgusting things, and mice. They will come to an end at the same time, declares Jehovah.

Abominations, Idolatry Is

Jeremiah 32:32-35

The people of Israel and Judah have made me furious because they are evil. The people, their kings and officials, their priests and prophets, and the Judeans and those who live in Jerusalem

Abominations, Judgments Of

Deuteronomy 17:2

In one of the cities Jehovah your God is giving you, there may be a man or woman among you who is doing what Jehovah considers evil. This person may be disregarding the conditions of Jehovah's covenant.

Abominations, Practices

Genesis 43:32

Joseph was served at a table by himself. His brothers were served at another. The Egyptians sat at yet another table. This is because Egyptians felt it was disgusting to eat with Hebrews.

Abominations, Sin Is

Proverbs 6:16-17

Jehovah hates these six things: Yes, seven are an abomination to him:

Repenting Of Abominations

Ezekiel 14:6

Therefore tell the nation of Israel: This is what the Lord Jehovah says: Change the way you think and act! (Repent!) Turn away from your idols, and do not return to any of your disgusting things.

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