Isaiah 48:11
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11 For My own sake, for My own sake, I will do it;
For (A)how should My name be profaned?
And (B)I will not give My glory to another.
Isaiah 42:8
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8 I am the Lord, that is My name;
And My (A)glory I will not give to another,
Nor My praise to carved images.
Ezekiel 20:9
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9 (A)But I acted for My name’s sake, that it should not be profaned before the Gentiles among whom they were, in whose sight I had made Myself (B)known to them, to bring them out of the land of Egypt.
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Ezekiel 20:14
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14 (A)But I acted for My name’s sake, that it should not be profaned before the Gentiles, in whose sight I had brought them out.
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Isaiah 37:35
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35 ‘For I will (A)defend this city, to save it
For My own sake and for My servant (B)David’s sake.’ ”
Ezekiel 20:22
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22 Nevertheless I [a]withdrew My hand and acted for My name’s sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the Gentiles, in whose sight I had brought them out.
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- Ezekiel 20:22 Refrained from judgment
1 Samuel 12:22
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22 For (A)the Lord will not forsake (B)His people, (C)for His great name’s sake, because (D)it has pleased the Lord to make you His people.
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Isaiah 43:25
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25 “I, even I, am He who (A)blots out your transgressions (B)for My own sake;
(C)And I will not remember your sins.
Jeremiah 14:7
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7 O Lord, though our iniquities testify against us,
Do it (A)for Your name’s sake;
For our backslidings are many,
We have sinned against You.
Numbers 14:15-16
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15 Now if You kill these people as one man, then the nations which have heard of Your fame will speak, saying, 16 ‘Because the Lord was not (A)able to bring this people to the land which He swore to give them, therefore He killed them in the wilderness.’
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Ezekiel 20:44
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44 (A)Then you shall know that I am the Lord, when I have dealt with you (B)for My name’s sake, not according to your wicked ways nor according to your corrupt doings, O house of Israel,” says the Lord God.’ ”
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Ezekiel 20:39
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39 “As for you, O house of Israel,” thus says the Lord God: (A)“Go, serve every one of you his idols—and hereafter—if you will not obey Me; (B)but profane My holy name no more with your gifts and your idols.
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Isaiah 48:5
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5 Even from the beginning I have declared it to you;
Before it came to pass I proclaimed it to you,
Lest you should say, ‘My idol has done them,
And my carved image and my molded image
Have commanded them.’
Deuteronomy 32:26-27
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26 (A)I would have said, “I will dash them in pieces,
I will make the memory of them to cease from among men,”
27 Had I not feared the wrath of the enemy,
Lest their adversaries should misunderstand,
Lest they should say, (B)“Our hand is high;
And it is not the Lord who has done all this.” ’
Romans 2:24
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24 For (A)“the name of God is (B)blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you,” as it is written.
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John 5:23
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23 that all should honor the Son just as they honor the Father. (A)He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.
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Isaiah 52:5
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5 Now therefore, what have I here,” says the Lord,
“That My people are taken away for nothing?
Those who rule over them
[a]Make them wail,” says the Lord,
“And My name is (A)blasphemed continually every day.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 52:5 DSS Mock; LXX Marvel and wail; Tg. Boast themselves; Vg. Treat them unjustly
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