5 occurrences

'Profaning' in the Bible

Then I reprimanded the nobles of Judah and said to them, “What is this evil thing you are doing, by profaning the sabbath day?

Verse ConceptsNoblesProfanityAnger, Justified ExamplesDisputesSabbath Violated

Did not your fathers do the same, so that our God brought on us and on this city all this trouble? Yet you are adding to the wrath on Israel by profaning the sabbath.”

Verse ConceptsSabbath Violated

“How blessed is the man who does this,And the son of man who takes hold of it;Who keeps from profaning the sabbath,And keeps his hand from doing any evil.”

Verse ConceptsCommendationethics, personalLaw, Ten CommandmentsSabbath, In OtSabbath Observed

“Also the foreigners who join themselves to the Lord,To minister to Him, and to love the name of the Lord,To be His servants, every one who keeps from profaning the sabbathAnd holds fast My covenant;

Verse ConceptsForeignersUnited With GodForeigners Included Among The PeopleStrangers in israelImmigrantsAliens

“But you are profaning it, in that you say, ‘The table of the Lord is defiled, and as for its fruit, its food is to be despised.’

Verse ConceptsProfanityProfaning God's NameMisusing God's NameUnclean Things

Bible Theasaurus

Corrupt (70 instances)
Debase (8 instances)
Demoralize (1 instance)
Deprave (1 instance)
Desecrate (16 instances)
Outrage (13 instances)
Pervert (19 instances)
Profane (84 instances)
Profaning (18 instances)
Subvert (8 instances)
Violate (24 instances)

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