For Your name'ssake,O LORD,Pardonmy iniquity,for it is great.
Helpus, O Godof our salvation,for the gloryof Your name;And deliverus and forgiveour sinsfor Your name'ssake.
I am writingto you, little children,becauseyour sinshave been forgivenyou for His name'ssake.
For You are my rockand my fortress;For Your name'ssakeYou will leadme and guideme.
"I, even I, am the one who wipesout your transgressionsfor My own sake,And I will not rememberyour sins.
But the free giftis not likethe transgression.For ifby the transgressionof the onethe manydied,muchmoredid the graceof Godand the giftby the graceof the oneMan,JesusChrist,aboundto the many.
"Thereforesayto the houseof Israel,'Thussaysthe LordGOD,"It is not for your sake,O houseof Israel,that I am about to act,but for My holyname,whichyou have profanedamong the nationswhereyou went.
"But I actedfor the sakeof My name,that it should not be profanedin the sightof the nationsamongwhomthey [lived], in whosesightI madeMyself knownto them by bringingthem out of the landof Egypt.
"For the sakeof My nameI delayMy wrath,And [for] My praiseI restrain[it] for you, In order not to cutyou off.
But You, O GOD,the Lord,deal[kindly] with me for Your name'ssake;BecauseYour lovingkindnessis good,deliverme;
For the sakeof Your name,O LORD,reviveme. In Your righteousnessbringmy soulout of trouble.
who keepslovingkindnessfor thousands,who forgivesiniquity,transgressionand sin;yet He will by nomeansleave[the guilty] unpunished,visitingthe iniquityof fatherson the childrenand on the grandchildrento the thirdand fourthgenerations."
"Althoughour iniquitiestestifyagainst us, O LORD,actfor Your name'ssake!Trulyour apostasieshave beenmany,We have sinnedagainst You.
