What does the Bible say about blaspheming the holy spirit?
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The Bible warns that blasphemy against the Holy Spirit is a grave, willful rejection of God's clear testimony to Christ, yet it also calls repentant sinners to trust God's abundant mercy. In Matthew 12:31-32 and Mark 3:28-30, Jesus addresses religious leaders who saw His Spirit-empowered works and deliberately called them satanic. This is not a troubled believer's unwanted thought or a sin confessed with sorrow, but hardened unbelief that persistently rejects the Spirit's witness. Hebrews 6:4-6 likewise warns against decisive apostasy after great spiritual light. Those who fear they have committed this sin should flee to Christ, for such concern often reflects the Spirit's convicting work, and everyone who comes to Him in faith will be received.
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- Matthew 12:31-32
[31] Therefore I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven men. [32] Whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man, it will be forgiven him; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven him, neither in this age, nor in that which is to come.
- Mark 3:28-30
[28] Most assuredly I tell you, all of the children of men's sins will be forgiven them, including their blasphemies with which they may blaspheme; [29] but whoever may blaspheme against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin" [30] -- because they said, "He has an unclean spirit."
- Matthew 12:32
Whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man, it will be forgiven him; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven him, neither in this age, nor in that which is to come.
- Hebrews 6:4-6
[4] For concerning those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit, [5] and tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the age to come, [6] and then fell away, it is impossible to renew them again to repentance; seeing they crucify the Son of God for themselves again, and put him to open shame.
- James 2:6-7
[6] But you have dishonored the poor man. Don't the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts? [7] Don't they blaspheme the honorable name by which you are called?
- Acts 7:51
"You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.
- 1 Corinthians 6:6-10
[6] But brother goes to law with brother, and that before unbelievers! [7] Therefore it is already altogether a defect in you, that you have lawsuits one with another. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded? [8] No, but you yourselves do wrong, and defraud, and that against your brothers. [9] Or don't you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don't be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, [10] nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortioners, will inherit the Kingdom of God.
- Luke 12:10
Everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but those who blaspheme against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.
- Mark 3:29
but whoever may blaspheme against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin"
- Titus 2:3-5
[3] and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good; [4] that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, [5] to be sober-minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that God's word may not be blasphemed.
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