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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Exodus 20:7 Catholic Bible: "Do not use my name for evil purposes, for I, the LORD your God, will punish anyone who misuses my name. </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/exodus/20-7.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/exodus/20-7.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/exodus/20-7.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/exodus/1.htm">Exodus</a> > <a href="/gntd/exodus/20.htm">Chapter 20</a> > Verse 7</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../exodus/20-6.htm" title="Exodus 20:6">◄</a> Exodus 20:7 <a href="../exodus/20-8.htm" title="Exodus 20:8">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/exodus/20.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/exodus/20.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />"Do not use my name for evil purposes, for I, the LORD your God, will punish anyone who misuses my name. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/exodus/20.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />You shall not make wrongful use of the name of the LORD your God, for the LORD will not acquit anyone who misuses his name.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/exodus/20.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />Do not misuse my name. I am the LORD your God, and I will punish anyone who misuses my name. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/exodus/20.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />You shall not invoke the name of the LORD, your God, in vain. For the LORD will not leave unpunished anyone who invokes his name in vain.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/exodus/20.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain: for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that shall take the name of the Lord his God in vain.<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain: for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that shall take the name of the Lord his God in vain.</p><p class="hdg">take</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../leviticus/19-12.htm">Leviticus 19:12</a> Thou shalt not swear falsely by my name, nor profane the name of thy God. I am the Lord.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../leviticus/24-11.htm">Leviticus 24:11-16</a> And when he had blasphemed the name, and had cursed it, he was brought to Moses. (Now his mother was called Salumith, the daughter of Dabri, of the tribe of Dan.) . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../deuteronomy/5-11.htm">Deuteronomy 5:11</a> Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain: for he shall not be unpunished that taketh his name upon a vain thing.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/50-14.htm">Psalm 50:14-16</a> Offer to God the sacrifice of praise: and pay thy vows to the most High. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../proverbs/30-9.htm">Proverbs 30:9</a> Lest perhaps being filled, I should be tempted to deny, and say: Who is the Lord? or being compelled by poverty, I should steal, and forswear the name of my God.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../jeremiah/4-2.htm">Jeremiah 4:2</a> And thou shalt swear: As the Lord liveth, in truth, and in judgment, and in justice: and the Gentiles shall bless him, and shall praise him.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../matthew/5-33.htm">Matthew 5:33-37</a> Again you have heard that it was said to them of old, thou shalt not forswear thyself: but thou shalt perform thy oaths to the Lord. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../matthew/23-16.htm">Matthew 23:16-22</a> Woe to you, blind guides, that say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but he that shall swear by the gold of the temple is a debtor. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../matthew/26-63.htm">Matthew 26:63,64</a> But Jesus held his peace. And the high priest said to him: I adjure thee by the living God, that thou tell us if thou be the Christ the Son of God. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_corinthians/1-23.htm">2 Corinthians 1:23</a> But I call God to witness upon my soul that to spare you, I came not any more to Corinth: not because we exercise dominion over your faith: but we are helpers of your joy. For in faith you stand.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../hebrews/6-16.htm">Hebrews 6:16,17</a> For men swear by one greater than themselves: and an oath for confirmation is the end of all their controversy. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../james/5-12.htm">James 5:12</a> But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath. But let your speech be: Yea, Yea: No, No: that you fall not under judgment.</p><p class="hdg">guiltless</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../joshua/2-12.htm">Joshua 2:12,17</a> Now, therefore, swear ye to me by the Lord, that as I have shewed mercy to you, so you also will shew mercy to my father's house: and give me a true token. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../joshua/9-20.htm">Joshua 9:20</a> But this we will do to them: Let their lives be saved, lest the wrath of the Lord be stirred up against us, if we should be forsworn:</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_samuel/21-1.htm">2 Samuel 21:1,2</a> And there was a famine in the days of David for three years successively: and David consulted the oracle of the Lord. And the Lord said: It is for Saul, and his bloody house, because he slow the Gabaonites. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_kings/2-9.htm">1 Kings 2:9</a> Do not thou hold him guiltless. But thou art a wise man, and knowest what to do with him, and thou shalt bring down his grey hairs with blood to the grave.</p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/exodus/20.htm">The Ten Commandments</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">6</span>And shewing mercy unto thousands to them that love me, and keep my commandments. <span class="reftext">7</span><span class="highl">Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain: for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that shall take the name of the Lord his God in vain.</span><span class="reftext">8</span>Remember that thou keep holy the sabbath day.…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../leviticus/19-12.htm">Leviticus 19:12</a></span><br />Thou shalt not swear falsely by my name, nor profane the name of thy God. I am the Lord.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../deuteronomy/5-11.htm">Deuteronomy 5:11</a></span><br />Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain: for he shall not be unpunished that taketh his name upon a vain thing.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../deuteronomy/6-13.htm">Deuteronomy 6:13</a></span><br />Take heed diligently lest thou forget the Lord, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God, and shalt serve him only, and thou shalt swear by his name.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../deuteronomy/10-20.htm">Deuteronomy 10:20</a></span><br />Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God, and serve him only: to him thou shalt adhere, and shalt swear by his name.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../2_kings/5-20.htm">2 Kings 5:20</a></span><br />But Giezi, the servant of the man of God, said: My master hath spared Naaman this Syrian, in not receiving of him that which he brought: as the Lord liveth, I will run after him, and take something of him.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../psalms/139-20.htm">Psalm 139:20</a></span><br />Because you say in thought: They shall receive thy cities in vain.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../proverbs/30-9.htm">Proverbs 30:9</a></span><br />Lest perhaps being filled, I should be tempted to deny, and say: Who is the Lord? or being compelled by poverty, I should steal, and forswear the name of my God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../jeremiah/34-16.htm">Jeremiah 34:16</a></span><br />And you are fallen back, and have defiled my name: and you have brought back again every man his manservant, and every man his maidservant, whom you had let go free, and set at liberty: and you have brought them into subjection to be your servants and handmaids.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../ezekiel/39-7.htm">Ezekiel 39:7</a></span><br />And I will make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel, and my holy name shall be profaned no more: and the Gentiles shall know that I am the Lord, the Holy One of Israel.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><div class="vheading2">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/exodus/16-20.htm">Evil</a> <a href="/hebrews/7-26.htm">Guiltless</a> <a href="/exodus/15-15.htm">Hold</a> <a href="/colossians/2-18.htm">Idly</a> <a href="/exodus/18-26.htm">Judged</a> <a href="/exodus/16-20.htm">Leave</a> <a href="/psalms/139-20.htm">Misuse</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/5-11.htm">Misuses</a> <a href="/exodus/10-10.htm">Purpose</a> <a href="/genesis/18-25.htm">Sinner</a> <a href="/hebrews/12-25.htm">Unpunished</a> <a href="/exodus/16-18.htm">Use</a> <a href="/revelation/17-6.htm">Utter</a> <a href="/habakkuk/3-10.htm">Uttereth</a> <a href="/exodus/5-9.htm">Vain</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/exodus/21-8.htm">Evil</a> <a href="/exodus/21-28.htm">Guiltless</a> <a href="/exodus/22-29.htm">Hold</a> <a href="/leviticus/19-16.htm">Idly</a> <a href="/exodus/21-28.htm">Judged</a> <a href="/exodus/23-5.htm">Leave</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/5-11.htm">Misuse</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/5-11.htm">Misuses</a> <a href="/exodus/21-13.htm">Purpose</a> <a href="/1_samuel/14-39.htm">Sinner</a> <a href="/exodus/21-19.htm">Unpunished</a> <a href="/exodus/20-25.htm">Use</a> <a href="/exodus/23-1.htm">Utter</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/5-11.htm">Uttereth</a> <a href="/leviticus/26-16.htm">Vain</a><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/exodus/20-7.htm">Exodus 20:7 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/exodus/20-7.htm">Exodus 20:7 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/exodus/20-7.htm">Exodus 20:7 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/exodus/20-7.htm">Exodus 20:7 NASB</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/exodus/20-7.htm">Exodus 20:7 Bible Apps</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/exodus/20-7.htm">Exodus 20:7 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/exodus/20-7.htm">Exodus 20:7 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/exodus/20-7.htm">Exodus 20:7 French Bible</a><br /><a href="//bibeltext.com/exodus/20-7.htm">Exodus 20:7 German Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Alphabetical: anyone for God guiltless him his hold in leave LORD misuse misuses name not of shall take takes the unpunished vain who will You your<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="https://biblehub.com/exodus/20-7.htm">OT Law: Exodus 20:7 You shall not take the name (Exo. 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