Deuteronomy 5:11

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11 Thou shalt not idly utter the name of Jehovah thy God; for Jehovah will not hold him guiltless that idly uttereth his name.


Commentary on this verse  

By Alexander Payne

Verse 11. Good and truth must not be profaned (by believing the truth and doing evil, or by doing good from a hypocritical or selfish motive), for thereby what is spiritual in the soul is hopelessly destroyed by being conjoined to its opposite, and a state induced that cannot be healed.