9 Bible Verses about Misusing God's Name

Never use the name of Jehovah your God in a false and evil way. Jehovah will make sure that anyone who is false, evil, careless and vain with his name will be punished.

Do not take the name of Jehovah your God in vain. Jehovah will not leave him unpunished who takes his name in vain.

You dishonor me in front of my people for a few handfuls of barley and a few pieces of bread. You kill people who should not die. You spare the lives of people who should not live. You lie to my people who are willing to listen.'

The Lord Jehovah says: 'The Lord Jehovah tells all you Israelites to suit yourselves! Go on and serve your idols! But I warn you that after this you will have to obey me and stop dishonoring my holy name by offering gifts to your idols.'

Wherever they went among the nations, they dishonored my holy name. People said about them: 'These are Jehovah's people, yet they had to leave his land.'

I became concerned about my holy name because my people dishonored it among the nations wherever they went. (Romans 2:21-24)

So tell the people of Israel, 'the Lord Jehovah says: I am about to do something, people of Israel. I will not do this for your sake but for the sake of my holy name, which you have dishonored among the nations wherever you have gone.'

They pant after the dust of the earth on the head of lowly (meek) persons. They reject the humble! A man and his father have sexual relations with the same maiden, to profane my holy name.

You profane it by saying: 'The table of Jehovah is polluted and the fruit and food on it is contemptible.'