For my own sake, for my own sake, I do it, for how should my name be profaned? My glory I will not give to another.
I am the Lord; that is my name; my glory I give to no other, nor my praise to carved idols.
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 in bringing them out of the land of Egypt.
But I acted for the sake of my name, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I had brought them out.
For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake and for the sake of my servant David.”
But I withheld my hand and acted for the sake of my name, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I had brought them out.
For the Lord will not forsake his people, for his great name's sake, because it has pleased the Lord to make you a people for himself.
“I, I am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake, and I will not remember your sins.
“Though our iniquities testify against us, act, O Lord, for your name's sake; for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against you.
And you shall know that I am the Lord, when I deal with you for my name's sake, not according to your evil ways, nor according to your corrupt deeds, O house of Israel, declares the Lord God.”
Now if you kill this people as one man, then the nations who have heard your fame will say, ‘It is because the Lord was not able to bring this people into the land that he swore to give to them that he has killed them in the wilderness.’
“As for you, O house of Israel, thus says the Lord God: Go serve every one of you his idols, now and hereafter, if you will not listen to me; but my holy name you shall no more profane with your gifts and your idols.
I would have said, “I will cut them to pieces; I will wipe them from human memory,” had I not feared provocation by the enemy, lest their adversaries should misunderstand, lest they should say, “Our hand is triumphant, it was not the Lord who did all this.”’
For, as it is written, “The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.”
that all may honor the Son, just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.
Now therefore what have I here,” declares the Lord, “seeing that my people are taken away for nothing? Their rulers wail,” declares the Lord, “and continually all the day my name is despised.
I declared them to you from of old, before they came to pass I announced them to you, lest you should say, ‘My idol did them, my carved image and my metal image commanded them.’
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