Isaiah 48:11 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹¹ 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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹¹ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹¹ For My own sake, for My own sake, I do it [I refrain and do not utterly destroy you]; for why should I permit My name to be polluted and profaned [which it would be if the Lord completely destroyed His chosen people]? And I will not give My glory to another [by permitting the worshipers of idols to triumph over you].

American Standard Version (1901)

¹¹ 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.

Common English Bible

¹¹ For the sake of my reputation, for my own sake, I will act, for why will my name be made impure? I won’t give my glory to another.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹¹ For my sake, for my own sake, I will do it, so that I may not be blasphemed. For I will not give my glory to another.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹¹ 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.

Isaiah 48:11 Cross References

Psalm 106:8

Yet he saved them for his name’s sake, so that he might make known his mighty power.

Psalm 115:1

Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to your name give glory, for the sake of your steadfast love and your faithfulness.

Psalm 25:11

For your name’s sake, O Lord, pardon my guilt, for it is great.

Psalm 25:7

Do not remember the sins of my youth or my transgressions; according to your steadfast love remember me, for the sake of your goodness, O Lord!

Isaiah 37:35

For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake and for the sake of my servant David.”

Isaiah 42:8

I am the Lord; that is my name; my glory I give to no other, nor my praise to idols.

Isaiah 43:25

I alone am the one who blots out your transgressions for my own sake, and I will not remember your sins.

Isaiah 48:5

I declared them to you from long ago, before they came to pass I announced them to you, so that you would not say, “My idol did them; my carved image and my cast image commanded them.”

Isaiah 48:9

For my name’s sake I defer my anger; for the sake of my praise I restrain it for you, so that I may not cut you off.

Isaiah 52:5

Now therefore what am I doing here, says the Lord, seeing that my people are taken away without cause? Their rulers howl, says the Lord, and continually, all day long, my name is despised.

Jeremiah 14:7

Although our iniquities testify against us, act, O Lord, for your name’s sake; our rebellions indeed are many, and we have sinned against you.

Ezekiel 20:14

But I acted for the sake of my name, so that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I had brought them out.

Ezekiel 20:22

But I withheld my hand and acted for the sake of my name, so that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I had brought them out.

Ezekiel 20:39

As for you, O house of Israel, thus says the Lord God: Go serve your idols, every one of you 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.

Ezekiel 20:44

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 or corrupt deeds, O house of Israel, says the Lord God.

Ezekiel 20:9

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.

Ezekiel 36:22

Therefore say to the house of Israel: Thus says the Lord God: It is not for your sake, O house of Israel, that I am about to act but for the sake of my holy name, which you have profaned among the nations to which you came.

Daniel 9:17

Now therefore, O our God, listen to the prayer of your servant and to his supplication, and for your own sake, Lord, let your face shine upon your desolated sanctuary.

John 5:23

so that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Anyone who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.

Romans 2:24

For, as it is written, “The name of God is blasphemed among the gentiles because of you.”

1 Samuel 12:22

For the Lord will not cast away his people, for his great name’s sake, because it has pleased the Lord to make you a people for himself.