17 Bible Verses about Profanity

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Amos 2:7

Panting for the dust of the earth upon the head of the poor, and they will turn away the way of the humble: and a man and his father will go to the same young girl to profane my holy name:

Malachi 1:12

And ye profaning it in your saying, The table of Jehovah it being polluted; and its fruit, its food was despised.

Nehemiah 13:17

And I shall contend with the nobles of Judah, and say to them, What this evil word that ye are doing, and profaning the day of the Sabbath?

Leviticus 21:14

A widow, and the driven away, and profane, and an harlot, those he shall not take: but a virgin of his people shall he take a wife.

Leviticus 21:21-23

Any man to whom in him a blemish from the seed of Aaron the priest, shall not come near to bring the sacrifices of Jehovah: a blemish is in him, the bread of his God he shall not come near to bring. The bread of his God the holy of holies, and from the holies shall he eat. But he shall not come in to the vail, and to the altar he shall not come near, for a blemish is in him; and he shall not profane my holy place: for I Jehovah consecrating them.

Leviticus 19:8

And he eating it shall bear his iniquity, for he profaned the holy thing of Jehovah; and that soul was cut off from its people.

Leviticus 21:9

And the daughter of a man a priest, if she shall be profaned to commit fornication, it is profaning her father: she shall be burnt in fire.

Ezekiel 28:16

In the multitude of thy traffic they filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou wilt sin: and I shall profane thee from the mountain of God, and destroying thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.

Leviticus 22:31-33

And ye watched my commands and did them: I Jehovah. And ye did not profane my holy name; I was consecrated in the midst of the sons of Israel: I Jehovah consecrating you. Having brought you forth from the land of Egypt to be to you for God: I Jehovah.

Ezekiel 20:39

And ye, O house of Israel, thus says the Lord Jehovah: Go serve ye each his blocks, and afterward if ye bear not to me and ye shall not profane my holy name yet with your gifts and with your blocks.

Isaiah 52:5-6

And now what to me here, says Jehovah, that my people were taken gratuitously? ruling, they will cause to give a sharp sound, says Jehovah; and continually all the day my name being despised. For this, my people shall know my name: for this in that day, for I am he speaking: behold me.

Ezekiel 39:7

And I will make known my holy name in the midst of my people Israel; and I will no more profane my holy name: and the nations shall know that am Jehovah, the Holy One in Israel.

Leviticus 20:1-5

And Jehovah will speak to Moses, saying, And to the sons of Israel thou shalt say, A man, a man from the sons of Israel, and from the stranger sojourning in Israel which shall give of his seed to Molech, dying, he shall die: the people of the land. shall stone him with stones. And I will give my face against that man and cut him off from the midst of his people; for he gave from his seed to Molech, in order to defile my holy place and to profane my holy name.read more.
And if the people of the land, hiding, shall hide their eyes from that man in his giving his seed to Molech, so as not to put him to death; And I set my face against that man and against his family, and I cut him off, and all committing fornication after him to commit fornication after Molech, from the midst of their people.

2 Peter 2:12

But these, as natural irrational living creatures, having been for catching and destroying, defaming in what things they are ignorant of; and shall be destroyed in their corruption;

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Profanity » Blasphemy » General references to

1 Timothy 1:20

Of whom is Hymeneus and Alexander; whom I have delivered to Satan, that they should not be taught to blaspheme.

Isaiah 65:7

Your iniquities and the iniquities of your fathers together, said Jehovah, who burnt incense upon the mountains, and upon the hills they reproached me: and I measured their former work upon their bosom.

Revelation 13:1

{ And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and I saw coming up from the sea a wild beast, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten diadems, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.}

Revelation 16:11

And they blasphemed the God of heaven for their pains and for their sores, and they repented not of their work.

Leviticus 24:11

And the son of the woman the Israelitess, will curse the name, and will vilify, and they will bring him to Moses: and his mother's name Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, to the tribe of Dan.

Profanity » Blasphemy » Against Christ

Luke 22:65

And many other things, blaspheming, they spake against him.

More verses: James 2:7

Profanity » Forbidden

James 5:12

And before all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, nor by earth, nor any other oath: and let your yea be yea; and nay, nay; that ye fall not under. judgment.

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