Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
For my sake, for My sake I will do it; for why should My name be defiled? And I will not give My glory to another.
New American Standard Bible
For how can My name be profaned?
And My
King James Version
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.
Holman Bible
for how can I
I will not give My glory to another.
International Standard Version
For my own sake Yes, for my own sake! I'm doing it; indeed, how can I be profaned? Furthermore, I won't give my glory to another."
A Conservative Version
For my own sake, for my own sake, I will do it. For how should [my name] be profaned? And I not will give my glory to another.
American Standard Version
For mine own sake, for mine own sake, will I do it; for how should my name be profaned? and my glory will I not give to another.
Amplified
“For My own sake, for My own sake, I will do it [I refrain and do not completely destroy you];
For how can My Name be defiled and profaned [as it would if My chosen people were completely destroyed]?
And I will not give My glory to another [by permitting the worshipers of idols to triumph over you].
Bible in Basic English
For myself, even because of my name, I will do it; for I will not let my name be shamed; and my glory I will not give to another.
Darby Translation
For mine own sake, for mine own sake, will I do it; for how should my name be profaned? and I will not give my glory unto another.
Julia Smith Translation
For my :sake, for my sake will I do: for how shall it be defiled? and I will not give my glory to another.
King James 2000
For my own sake, even for my own sake, will I do it: for how should my name be profaned? and I will not give my glory unto another.
Lexham Expanded Bible
For my own sake, for my own sake I do [it]; for why should it be defiled? And I will not give my glory to another."
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And that only for mine own sake, for I give mine honour to none other, that thou shouldest not despise me.
NET Bible
For my sake alone I will act, for how can I allow my name to be defiled? I will not share my glory with anyone else!
New Heart English Bible
For my own sake, for my own sake, will I do it; for how should my name be profaned? I will not give my glory to another.
The Emphasized Bible
For mine own sake - for mine own sake, will I effectually work For how should it be profaned? And, my glory - to another, will I not give.
Webster
For my own sake, even for my own sake, will I do it: for how should my name be profaned? and I will not give my glory to another.
World English Bible
For my own sake, for my own sake, will I do it; for how should [my name] be profaned? and my glory I will not give to another.
Youngs Literal Translation
For My sake, for Mine own sake, I do it, For how is it polluted? And Mine honour to another I give not.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 48:11
Verse Info
Context Readings
Yahweh Refines Stubborn Israel
10 Behold, I have refined you, but not with silver; I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction. 11 For my sake, for My sake I will do it; for why should My name be defiled? And I will not give My glory to another. 12 Listen to me, O Jacob and Israel, My called; I am He; I am the first, I also am the last.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Isaiah 42:8
I am Jehovah; that is My name; and My glory I will not give to another, nor My praise to graven images.
Ezekiel 20:9
But I worked for My name's sake, that it should not be profaned before the nations among whom they were, for I made Myself known to them in their eyes, by bringing them out of the land of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 32:26-27
I said I would dash them to pieces; I would make the memory of them to cease from among men,
Numbers 14:15-16
And will You kill this people as one man? Then the nations who have heard Your fame will speak, saying,
1 Samuel 12:22
For Jehovah will not forsake His people for His great name's sake, because it has pleased Jehovah to make you His people.
Isaiah 37:35
For I will defend this city to save it, for My own sake and for My servant David's sake.
Isaiah 43:25
I, I am He who blots out your sins for My own sake, and will not remember your sins.
Isaiah 48:5
And I declared it to you from the beginning. Before it happened I revealed it to you; lest you should say, My idol has done them, and my graven image, and my molten image, has commanded them.
Isaiah 52:5
Now therefore, what have I here, says Jehovah, that My people are taken away for nothing? Those who rule make them howl, says Jehovah; and without ceasing My name is blasphemed every day.
Jeremiah 14:7
O Jehovah, though our iniquities testify against us, act for Your name's sake; for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against You.
Ezekiel 20:14
But I worked for My name's sake, so that it should not be profaned before the nations in whose sight I brought them out.
Ezekiel 20:22
But I withdrew My hand and worked for My name's sake, that it should not be profaned in the eyes of the nations, from whom I brought them out in their eyes.
Ezekiel 20:39
And you, O house of Israel, so says the Lord Jehovah: Every man go and serve his idols, and do so from now on if you will not listen to Me. But never again defile My holy name with your gifts and with your idols.
Ezekiel 20:44
And you shall know that I am Jehovah when I have worked with you for My name's sake, not according to your wicked ways nor according to your corrupt doings, O house of Israel, says the Lord Jehovah.
John 5:23
so that all should honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.
Romans 2:24
For the name of God is blasphemed among the nations because of you, as it is written.