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 my name's sake I will defer my anger, and for my praise I will refrain for thee, that I not cut thee off.

For how

Isaiah 52:5
Now therefore, what do I do here, says LORD, seeing that my people are taken away for nothing? Those who rule over them howl, says LORD, and {because of you (LXX/NT)} my name is continually blasphemed {among the Gentiles (LXX/NT)}.
Numbers 14:15
Now if thou shall kill this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying,
Deuteronomy 32:26
I said, I would scatter them afar, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men,
Ezekiel 20:9
But I worked for my name's sake (that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, among which they were, in whose sight I made myself known to them) in bringing them forth 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 have declared it to thee from of old. Before it came to pass I showed it to thee, lest thou should say, My idol has done them. And my graven image, and my molten image, has commanded them.
Isaiah 42:8
I am LORD. That is my name, and I will not give my glory to another, nor my praise to graven images.
John 5:23
so that all would honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. The man not honoring the Son, does not honor the Father who sent him.