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.
Parallel translations
- WEB For my own sake, for my own sake, I will do it; for how would my name be profaned? I will not give my glory to another.
- BSB For My own sake, My very own sake, I will act; for how can I let Myself be defamed? I will not yield My glory to another.
- NKJV For My own sake, for My own sake, I will do it; For how should My name be profaned? And I will not give My glory to another.
- NASB “For My own sake, for My own sake, I will act; For how can My name be profaned? And I will not give My glory to another.
- NLT I will rescue you for my sake— yes, for my own sake! I will not let my reputation be tarnished, and I will not share my glory with idols!
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Quick answer
For his own sake God acts to deliver, refusing to let his name be profaned or give his glory to another. God saves for the sake of his glory.
Overview
With emphatic repetition, God declares he acts to redeem 'for my own sake,' so his name is not dishonored and his glory not surrendered to idols. The ultimate ground of salvation is God's zeal for his own glory. This God-centered motive crowns the gospel, in which our salvation magnifies his grace and glory in Christ.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 16
- Isa 42:8I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.
- Ezek 20:9But I wrought for my name’s sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, among whom they were, in whose sight I made myself known unto them, in bringing them forth out of the land of Egypt.
- Isa 37:35For I will defend this city to save it for mine own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.
- Ezek 20:14But I wrought for my name’s sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, in whose sight I brought them out.
- 1 Sam 12:22For the LORD will not forsake his people for his great name’s sake: because it hath pleased the LORD to make you his people.
- Ezek 20:22Nevertheless I withdrew mine hand, and wrought for my name’s sake, that it should not be polluted in the sight of the heathen, in whose sight I brought them forth.
- Isa 43:25I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.
- Jer 14:7O LORD, though our iniquities testify against us, do thou it for thy name’s sake: for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against thee.
- Ezek 20:44And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have wrought with you for my name’s sake, not according to your wicked ways, nor according to your corrupt doings, O ye house of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.
- Num 14:15–16Now if thou shalt kill all this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying,
- Ezek 20:39As for you, O house of Israel, thus saith the Lord GOD; Go ye, serve ye every one his idols, and hereafter also, if ye will not hearken unto me: but pollute ye my holy name no more with your gifts, and with your idols.
- Deut 32:26–27I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:
- Rom 2:24For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written.
- Isa 52:5Now therefore, what have I here, saith the LORD, that my people is taken away for nought? they that rule over them make them to howl, saith the LORD; and my name continually every day is blasphemed.
- Isa 48:5I have even from the beginning declared it to thee; before it came to pass I shewed it thee: lest thou shouldest say, Mine idol hath done them, and my graven image, and my molten image, hath commanded them.
- John 5:23That all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him.
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