Isaiah 48:9

New American Bible - revised edition

For the sake of my name I restrain my anger, for the sake of my renown I hold it back from you, lest I destroy you.

Cross References

Psalm 106:8

Yet he saved them for his name’s sake to make his power known.

Psalm 143:11

For your name’s sake, Lord, give me life; in your righteousness lead my soul out of distress.

Psalm 25:11

For the sake of your name, Lord, pardon my guilt, though it is great.

Psalm 78:38

But God being compassionate forgave their sin; he did not utterly destroy them. Time and again he turned back his anger, unwilling to unleash all his rage.

Psalm 79:9

Help us, God our savior, on account of the glory of your name. Deliver us, pardon our sins for your name’s sake.

Proverbs 19:11

It is good sense to be slow to anger, and an honor to overlook an offense.

Isaiah 30:18

Truly, the Lord is waiting to be gracious to you, truly, he shall rise to show you mercy; For the Lord is a God of justice: happy are all who wait for him!

Isaiah 37:35

I will shield and save this city for my own sake and the sake of David my servant.”

Isaiah 43:25

It is I, I, who wipe out, for my own sake, your offenses; your sins I remember no more.

Isaiah 48:11

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

Isaiah 65:8

Thus says the Lord: As when the juice is pressed from a cluster, and someone says, “Do not destroy it, for there is still good in it,” So will I do for the sake of my servants: I will not destroy them all.

Jeremiah 14:7

Even though our crimes bear witness against us, act, Lord, for your name’s sake— Even though our rebellions are many, and we have sinned against you.

Ezekiel 20:14

but I acted for the sake of my name, so it would not be desecrated in the eyes of the nations in whose sight I had brought them out.

Ezekiel 20:22

but I stayed my hand, acting for the sake of my name, lest it be desecrated in the eyes of the nations, in whose sight I had brought them out.

Ezekiel 20:44

And you shall know that I am the Lord when I deal with you thus, for the sake of my name, not according to your evil ways and wanton deeds, house of Israel—oracle of the Lord God.

Ezekiel 20:9

I acted for the sake of my name, that it should not be desecrated in the eyes of the nations among whom they were: in the eyes of the nations I had made myself known to them, to bring them out of the land of Egypt.

Ezekiel 36:21

So I relented because of my holy name which the house of Israel desecrated among the nations to which they came.

Joshua 7:9

When the Canaanites and the other inhabitants of the land hear of it, they will close in around us and efface our name from the earth. What will you do for your great name?”

1 Samuel 12:22

For the sake of his own great name the Lord will not abandon his people, since the Lord has decided to make you his people.