17 Bible Verses about Profanity

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.'

Then I made protests to the chiefs of Judah, and said to them: What is this evil you are doing, not keeping the Sabbath day holy?

Do we all have one father? Did one God create us? Why do we deal treacherously with one another? Why do we profane the covenant of our fathers?

Never give your children as sacrifices to the god Molech by burning them alive. If you do, you are dishonoring the name of your God. I am Jehovah!

Do not swear falsely by my name, so as to profane the name of your God. I am Jehovah.

He must not marry a widow, a divorced woman, a woman who has lost her virginity, or a prostitute. He may only marry a virgin from his own people.

If a descendant of the priest Aaron has a physical defect, he must never bring sacrifices by fire to Jehovah. He has a defect. He must never bring food to offer to God. He may eat the food of his God, what is holy and what is very holy. However, he must never come up to the canopy or to the altar, since he has a physical defect. He must never dishonor the holy places because I, Jehovah, set them apart as holy.'

Those who eat it will be punished because they have dishonored what is holy to Jehovah. They must be excluded from the people.

When a priest's daughter dishonors herself by becoming a prostitute, she dishonors her father. She must be burned.

By the abundance of your trade you were filled with violence, and you sinned. Therefore I have cast you as profane from the mountain of God. I have destroyed you, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.

Carefully obey my commandments. Conform your life to them. I am Jehovah. Never dishonor my holy name. I will show my holiness among the Israelites. I am Jehovah, who sets you apart as holy. I brought you out of Egypt to be your God. I am Jehovah!

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.'

What do I have here? Declares Jehovah. For my people have been taken away for nothing. Those who rule them mock, declares Jehovah. And all day long my name is constantly blasphemed. Therefore my people will all know my name! In that day they will know that it is I who foretold it. Yes, it is I!

I will make sure that my people Israel know my holy name. I will not let my name be disgraced any more. Then the nations will know that I, Jehovah, am the holy God of Israel.'

Jehovah continued to speak to Moses: Tell the Israelites: 'If Israelites or foreigners living among you give one of their children as a sacrifice to the god Molech, they must be put to death. The common people must stone them to death. I will condemn them and exclude them from the people. They gave one of their children to Molech. They made my holy tent unclean, and dishonored my holy name.read more.
If the people of the land ignore those who give their children to Molech and do not put them to death, I will condemn them and their families. I will exclude them from the people. I will exclude from the people everyone who chases after Molech as if he were a prostitute.

But these are creatures without reason. They were born mere animals to be taken and destroyed! They speak abusively in matters of which they are ignorant. They suffer destruction in their own course of destruction.