Exodus 9:16
Good News Translation
But to show you my power I have let you live so that my fame might spread over the whole world.

New Revised Standard Version
But this is why I have let you live: to show you my power, and to make my name resound through all the earth.

Contemporary English Version
But he has kept you alive, just to show you his power and to bring honor to himself everywhere in the world.

New American Bible
But this is why I have let you survive: to show you my power and to make my name resound throughout the earth!

Douay-Rheims Bible
And therefore have I raised thee, that I may shew my power in thee, and my name may be spoken of throughout all the earth.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And therefore have I raised thee, that I may shew my power in thee, and my name may be spoken of throughout all the earth.

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Exodus 14:17 And I will harden the heart of the Egyptians to pursue you: and I will be glorified in Pharao, and in all his host, and in his chariots and in his horsemen.

Psalm 83:17,18 Let them be ashamed and troubled for ever and ever: and let them be confounded and perish. . . .

Proverbs 16:4 The Lord hath made all things for himself: the wicked also for the evil day.

Romans 9:17,22 For the scripture saith to Pharao: To this purpose have I raised thee, that I may shew my power in thee and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth. . . .

1 Peter 2:8,19 And a stone of stumbling and a rock of scandal, to them who stumble at the word, neither do believe, whereunto also they are set. . . .

Jude 1:4 For certain men are secretly entered in (who were written of long ago unto this judgment), ungodly men, turning the grace of our Lord God into riotousness and denying the only sovereign Ruler and our Lord Jesus Christ.

raised thee up.

Exodus 14:4 And I shall harden his heart and he will pursue you: and I shall be glorified in Pharao, and in all his army: and the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord. And they did so.

Exodus 15:11-16 Who is like to thee, among the strong, O Lord? who is like to thee, glorious in holiness, terrible and praise-worthy, doing wonders? . . .

Exodus 18:11 Now I know, that the Lord is great above all gods; because they dealt proudly against them.

Joshua 2:10,11 We have heard that the Lord dried up the water of the Red Sea, at your going in, when you came out of Egypt: and what things you did to the two kings of the Amorrhites, that were beyond the Jordan, Sehon and Og whom you slew. . . .

1 Samuel 4:8 Woe to us: for there was no such great joy yesterday, and the day before: Woe to us. Who shall deliver us from the hand of these high Gods? these are the Gods that struck Egypt with all the plagues in the desert.

Psalm 136:10-15 Who smote Egypt with their firstborn: for his mercy endureth for ever. . . .

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1 Chronicles 16:24 Declare his glory among the Gentiles: his wonders among all people.

Psalm 64:9 And every man was afraid. And they declared the works of God, and understood his doings.

Psalm 83:17,18 Let them be ashamed and troubled for ever and ever: and let them be confounded and perish. . . .

Isaiah 63:12-14 He that brought out Moses by the right hand, by the arm of his majesty: that divided the waters before them, to make himself an everlasting name. . . .

Malachi 1:11,14 For from the rising of the sun even to the going down, my name is great among the Gentiles, and in every place there is sacrifice, and there is offered to my name a clean oblation: for my name is great among the Gentiles, saith the Lord of hosts. . . .

Romans 9:17 For the scripture saith to Pharao: To this purpose have I raised thee, that I may shew my power in thee and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth.

Context
The Seventh Plague: Hail
15For now I will stretch out my hand to strike thee, and thy people, with pestilence, and thou shalt perish from the earth. 16And therefore have I raised thee, that I may shew my power in thee, and my name may be spoken of throughout all the earth.17Dost thou yet hold back my people; and wilt thou not let them go?…
Cross References
Romans 9:17
For the scripture saith to Pharao: To this purpose have I raised thee, that I may shew my power in thee and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth.

Exodus 9:15
For now I will stretch out my hand to strike thee, and thy people, with pestilence, and thou shalt perish from the earth.

Exodus 9:17
Dost thou yet hold back my people; and wilt thou not let them go?

Nehemiah 9:10
And thou shewedst signs and wonders upon Pharao, and upon all his servants, and upon the people of his land: for thou knewest that they dealt proudly against them: and thou madest thyself a name, as it is at this day.

Psalm 76:10
For the thought of man shall give praise to thee: and the remainders of the thought shall keep holiday to thee.

Psalm 106:8
And he saved them for his own name's sake: that he might make his power known.

Proverbs 16:4
The Lord hath made all things for himself: the wicked also for the evil day.

Jeremiah 32:20
Who hast set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt even until this day, and in Israel, and amongst men, and hast made thee a name as at this day.

Ezekiel 39:21
And I will set my glory among the nations: and all nations shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon them.

Exodus 9:15
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