◄ Isaiah 48:11 ►
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Good News Translation
What I do is done for my own sake--I will not let my name be dishonored or let anyone else share the glory that should be mine and mine alone."

New Revised Standard Version
For my own sake, for my own sake, I do it, for why should my name be profaned? My glory I will not give to another.

Contemporary English Version
I did this because of who I am. I refuse to be dishonored or share my praise with any other god.

New American Bible
For my sake, for my own sake, I do this; why should my name be profaned? My glory I will not give to another.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For my own sake, for my own sake will I do it, that I may not be blasphemed: and I will not give my glory to another.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For my own sake, for my own sake will I do it, that I may not be blasphemed: and I will not give my glory to another.

mine own

Isaiah 48:9 For my name's sake I will remove my wrath far off: and for my praise I will bridle thee, lest thou shouldst perish.

for how

Isaiah 52:5 And now what have I here, saith the Lord: for my people is taken away gratis. They that rule over them treat them unjustly, saith the Lord, and my name is continually blasphemed all the day long.

Numbers 14:15,16 May hear that thou hast killed so great a multitude as it were one man and may say: . . .

Deuteronomy 32:26,27 I said: Where are they? I will make the memory of them to cease from among men. . . .

Ezekiel 20:9,39 But I did otherwise for my name's sake, that it might not be violated before the nations, in the midst of whom they were, and among whom I made myself known to them, to bring them out of the land of Egypt. . . .

Romans 2:24 (For the name of God through you is blasphemed among the Gentiles, as it is written.)

my name.

Isaiah 48:5 I foretold thee of old, before they came to pass I told thee, lest thou shouldst say: My idols have done these things, and my graven and molten things have commanded them.

Isaiah 42:8 I the Lord, this is my name: I will not give my glory to another, nor my praise to graven things.

John 5:23 That all men may honour the Son, as they honour the Father. He who honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father who hath sent him.

Context
Israel's Stubbornness
…10Behold I have refined thee, but not as silver, I have chosen thee in the furnace of poverty. 11For my own sake, for my own sake will I do it, that I may not be blasphemed: and I will not give my glory to another.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:26
I said: Where are they? I will make the memory of them to cease from among men.

Deuteronomy 32:27
But for the wrath of the enemies I have deferred it: lest perhaps their enemies might be proud, and should say: Our mighty hand, and not the Lord, hath done all these things.

1 Samuel 12:22
And the Lord will not forsake his people for his great name's sake: because the Lord hath sworn to make you his people.

Psalm 25:11
For thy name's sake, O Lord, thou wilt pardon my sin: for it is great.

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

Psalm 115:1
Not to us, O Lord, not to us; but to thy name give glory.

Isaiah 37:35
And I will protect this city, and will save it for my own sake, and for the sake of David my servant.

Isaiah 42:8
I the Lord, this is my name: I will not give my glory to another, nor my praise to graven things.

Isaiah 43:25
I am, I am he that blot out thy iniquities for my own sake, and I will not remember thy sins.

Isaiah 48:9
For my name's sake I will remove my wrath far off: and for my praise I will bridle thee, lest thou shouldst perish.

Jeremiah 14:7
If our iniquities have testified against us, O Lord, do thou it for thy name's sake, for our rebellions are many, we have sinned against thee.

Ezekiel 20:9
But I did otherwise for my name's sake, that it might not be violated before the nations, in the midst of whom they were, and among whom I made myself known to them, to bring them out of the land of Egypt.

Ezekiel 20:14
But I spared them for the sake of my name, lest it should be profaned before the nations, from which I brought them out, in their sight.

Daniel 9:17
Now, therefore, O our God, hear the supplication of thy servant, and his prayers: and shew thy face upon thy sanctuary, which is desolate, for thy own sake.

Isaiah 48:10
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