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 reputation I hold back my anger; for the sake of my prestige I restrain myself from destroying you.

For how

Isaiah 52:5
And now, what do we have here?" says the Lord. "Indeed my people have been carried away for nothing, those who rule over them taunt," says the Lord, "and my name is constantly slandered all day long.
Numbers 14:15
If you kill this entire people at once, then the nations that have heard of your fame will say,
Deuteronomy 32:26
"I said, 'I want to cut them in pieces. I want to make people forget they ever existed.
Ezekiel 20:9
I acted for the sake of my reputation, so that I would not be profaned before the nations among whom they lived, before whom I revealed myself by bringing them out of the land of Egypt.
Romans 2:24
For just as it is written, "the name of God is being blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you."

I will not

Isaiah 48:5
I announced them to you beforehand; before they happened, I predicted them for you, so you could never say, 'My image did these things, my idol, my cast image, decreed them.'
Isaiah 42:8
I am the Lord! That is my name! I will not share my glory with anyone else, or the praise due me with idols.
John 5:23
so that all people will honor the Son just as they honor the Father. The one who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.

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