What offends God?

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 3:8Jerusalem will stumble, and Judah will fall, because they speak out against the Lord and refuse to obey him. They provoke him to his face.

Isaiah 37:22-29The Lord has spoken this word against him: “. . . Whom have you been defying and ridiculing? Against whom did you raise your voice? At whom did you look with such haughty eyes? It was the Holy One of Israel! . . . But I know you well—where you stay and when you come and go. I know the way you have raged against me. And because of your raging against me and your arrogance, which I have heard for myself, I will put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth. I will make you return by the same road on which you came.”

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.

Romans 1:18God shows his anger from heaven against all sinful, wicked people who suppress the truth by their wickedness.

Sin breaks God’s laws and is offensive to him because it is an act of rebellion against 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.

The way we treat others can be an insult to God, for he created us to love others.