²⁴ For, ^(A)as it is written, “The name of God is blasphemed ^(B)among the Gentiles because of you.”

²⁰ But when they came to the nations, wherever they came, ^(A)they profaned my holy name, in that people said of them, ‘These are the people of the Lord, and yet they had to go out of his land.’ ²¹ But I had concern ^(B)for my holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations to which they came.

I Will Put My Spirit Within You

²² “Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord God: ^(C)It is not for your sake, O house of Israel, that I am about to act, but for the sake of my holy name, ^(D)which you have profaned among the nations to which you came. ^23 (E)And I will vindicate the holiness of my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, and which you have profaned among them. ^(F)And the nations will know that I am the Lord, declares the Lord God, when through you I vindicate my holiness before their eyes.

⁵ Now therefore what have I here,” declares the Lord, “seeing that my people are taken away for nothing? Their rulers wail,” declares the Lord, “and ^(A)continually all the day my name is despised.

² And many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of truth ^(A)will be blasphemed.

¹⁴ Nevertheless, because by this deed you have utterly ^(A)scorned the Lord,^[a] the child who is born to you shall die.”

⁸ and ^(A)sound speech that cannot be condemned, ^(B)so that an opponent may be put to shame, having nothing evil to say about us.

⁵ to be self-controlled, ^(A)pure, ^(B)working at home, kind, and ^(C)submissive to their own husbands, ^(D)that the word of God may not be reviled.

6 ^(A)Let all who are under a yoke as bondservants^[a] regard their own masters as worthy of all honor, ^(B)so that the name of God and the teaching may not be reviled.