Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

For mine own sake, even for mine own sake, will I do it: for how should my name be polluted? and I will not give my glory unto another.

Mine own

Bible References

Mine own

Isaiah 48:9
For the sake of My name I delay My wrath,
And for My praise I restrain it for you,
In order not to cut you off.

For how

Isaiah 52:5
Now therefore, what do I have here,” declares the Lord, “seeing that My people have been taken away without cause?” Again the Lord declares, “Those who rule over them howl, and My name is continually blasphemed all day long.
Numbers 14:15
Now if You slay this people as one man, then the nations who have heard of Your fame will say,
Deuteronomy 32:26
‘I would have said, “I will cut them to pieces,
I will remove the memory of them from men,”
Ezekiel 20:9
But I acted for the sake of My name, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations among whom they lived, in whose sight I made Myself known to them by bringing them out of the land of Egypt.
Romans 2:24
For “the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you,” just as it is written.

I will not

Isaiah 48:5
Therefore I declared them to you long ago,
Before they took place I proclaimed them to you,
So that you would not say, ‘My idol has done them,
And my graven image and my molten image have commanded them.’
Isaiah 42:8
I am the Lord, that is My name;
I will not give My glory to another,
Nor My praise to graven images.
John 5:23
so that all will honor the Son even as they honor the Father. He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.