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What does the Bible say about blasphemy against the holy ghost?

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The Bible warns that blasphemy against the Holy Spirit is a grave, willful rejection of God’s clear saving work, especially by calling the Spirit’s work evil, and it leaves no forgiveness because it refuses the only source of forgiveness. In Matthew 12:31-32 and Mark 3:28-30, Jesus spoke this warning when religious leaders knowingly attributed His Spirit-empowered works to Satan. Luke 12:10 likewise distinguishes careless words about the Son of Man from hardened opposition to the Spirit. This is not an accidental statement, a season of doubt, or a sin that a repentant believer cannot bring to Christ. Those who fear they have committed it should be encouraged to seek the Lord, trusting that all who truly repent and believe are received by His grace.

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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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Mark 3:29

    but whoever may blaspheme against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin"

  • Romans 8:9

    But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn't have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.

  • 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.

  • 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?

  • 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."

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