17 Bible Verses about Profanity

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Amos 2:7

panting after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turning aside the way of the meek. And a man and his father will go in to the same woman, to defile My holy name.

Malachi 1:12

But you are profaning it when you say, The table of Jehovah, it is polluted; and its fruit, His food, is to be despised.

Nehemiah 13:17

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

Leviticus 21:14

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.

Leviticus 21:21-23

No man of the seed of Aaron, the priest, in whom there is a blemish shall come near to offer the fire offerings of Jehovah. He has a blemish; he shall not come near to offer the bread of his God. He shall eat the bread of his God, of the most holy and of the holy. 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.

Leviticus 19:8

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.

Leviticus 21:9

And the daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by going whoring, she profanes her father. She shall be burned with fire.

Ezekiel 28:16

By the multitude of your goods they have filled your midst with violence, and you have sinned. So I cast you profaned from the height of God, and I destroy you, O covering cherub, from among the stones of fire.

Leviticus 22:31-33

And you shall keep My commandments, and do them. I am Jehovah. And you shall not profane My holy name. But I will be holy among the sons of Israel. I am Jehovah who is sanctifying you, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God. I am Jehovah.

Ezekiel 20:39

And you, O house of Israel, so says the Lord Jehovah: Every man go and serve his idols, and do so from now on if you will not listen to Me. But never again defile My holy name with your gifts and with your idols.

Isaiah 52:5-6

Now therefore, what have I here, says Jehovah, that My people are taken away for nothing? Those who rule make them howl, says Jehovah; and without ceasing My name is blasphemed every day. Therefore My people shall know My name; So it shall be in that day, for I am He who speaks; behold, it is I.

Ezekiel 39:7

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.

Leviticus 20:1-5

And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, Again you shall say to the sons of Israel, Any man of the sons of Israel or of the strangers who live in Israel, that gives any of his seed to Molech, he shall surely be put to death. The people of the land shall stone him with stones. 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.read more.
And if the people of the land in any way hide their eyes from the man when he gives of his seed to Molech, and do not kill him, then I will set My face against that man and against his family, and will cut him off, and all that go lusting after him to commit adultery with Molech, from among their people.

2 Peter 2:12

But these, as unreasoning natural brute animals having been born for capture and corruption, speak evil of the things that they do not understand. And they will utterly perish in their own corruption,

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Profanity » Blasphemy » General references to

1 Timothy 1:20

Among these are Hymeneus and Alexander, whom I have delivered to Satan so that they may learn not to blaspheme.

Isaiah 65:7

your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, says Jehovah, they that burned incense on the mountains, and blasphemed Me on the hills. And I will measure their former work into their bosom.

Revelation 13:1

And I stood on the sand of the sea, and I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns. And on its horns were ten crowns, and on its heads was the name of blasphemy.

Revelation 16:11

And they blasphemed the God of Heaven because of their pains and their sores. And they did not repent of their deeds.

Leviticus 24:11

And the son of the woman of Israel blasphemed the name of Jehovah, and cursed. And they brought him to Moses. (And his mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.)

Profanity » Blasphemy » Against Christ

Luke 22:65

And they spoke many other things blasphemously against Him.

More verses: James 2:7

Profanity » Forbidden

James 5:12

But before all things, my brothers, do not swear; neither by the heaven nor by the earth, nor any other oath. But let your yes be yes, and your no, no, lest you fall into condemnation.

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