8 Bible Verses about Disrespecting God

Exodus 20:7 ESV / 116 helpful votes

“You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.

Proverbs 1:7 ESV / 111 helpful votes

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Matthew 5:48 ESV / 36 helpful votes

You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

Ephesians 5:11 ESV / 26 helpful votes

Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them.

Romans 8:9 ESV / 14 helpful votes

You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.

Mark 10:27 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Jesus looked at them and said, “With man it is impossible, but not with God. For all things are possible with God.”

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 7 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood ...

Daniel 5:2 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Belshazzar, when he tasted the wine, commanded that the vessels of gold and of silver that Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken out of the temple in Jerusalem be brought, that the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines might drink from them.

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