In what ways might I insult God? - Insults - TouchPoints

2 Chronicles 32:16-19Sennacherib’s officers further mocked the Lord God and his servant Hezekiah, heaping insult upon insult. The king also sent letters scorning the Lord, the God of Israel. He wrote, “Just as the gods of all the other nations failed to rescue their people from my power, so the God of Hezekiah will also fail.” The Assyrian officials who brought the letters shouted this in Hebrew to the people gathered on the walls of the city, trying to terrify them so it would be easier to capture the city. These officers talked about the God of Jerusalem as though he were one of the pagan gods, made by human hands.

Psalm 74:18, 22-23See how these enemies insult you, Lord. A foolish nation has dishonored your name. . . . Arise, O God, and defend your cause. Remember how these fools insult you all day long. Don’t overlook what your enemies have said or their growing uproar.

Proverbs 30:9If I grow rich, I may deny you and say, “Who is the Lord?” And if I am too poor, I may steal and thus insult God’s holy name.

Isaiah 65:3, 7“All day long they insult me to my face by worshiping idols in their sacred gardens. They burn incense on pagan altars . . .” says the Lord. “For they also burned incense on the mountains and insulted me on the hills. I will pay them back in full!”

Hebrews 10:29Just think how much worse the punishment will be for those who have trampled on the Son of God, and have treated the blood of the covenant, which made us holy, as if it were common and unholy, and have insulted and disdained the Holy Spirit who brings God’s mercy to us.

Jude 1:15“He [the Lord] will convict every person of all the ungodly things they have done and for all the insults that ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”

Open unbelief or rebellion against God insults him.

Proverbs 14:31Those who oppress the poor insult their Maker, but helping the poor honors him.

Proverbs 17:5Those who mock the poor insult their Maker; those who rejoice at the misfortune of others will be punished.

Mistreating others, especially the poor, insults God, who made all people in his image.