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
I will delay My anger for the honor of My name,
and I will restrain Myself for your benefit and for My praise,
so that you will not be destroyed.

For how

Isaiah 52:5
So now what have I here”—
this is the Lord’s declaration—
“that My people are taken away for nothing?
Its rulers wail”—
this is the Lord’s declaration—
“and My name is continually blasphemed all day long.
Numbers 14:15
If You kill this people with a single blow, the nations that have heard of Your fame will declare,
Deuteronomy 32:26
“I would have said: I will cut them to pieces
and blot out the memory of them from mankind,
Ezekiel 20:9
But I acted because of My name, so that it would not be profaned in the eyes of the nations they were living among, in whose sight I had made Myself known to Israel by bringing them out of Egypt.
Romans 2:24
For, as it is written: The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.

I will not

Isaiah 48:5
therefore I declared to you long ago.
I announced it to you before it occurred,
so you could not claim, ‘My idol caused them;
my carved image and cast idol control them.’
Isaiah 42:8
I am Yahweh, that is My name;
I will not give My glory to another
or My praise to idols.
John 5:23
so that all people will honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Anyone who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.

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