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Isa 48:11 — 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.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

mine own		Isa 48:9.
for how		Isa 52:5; Num 14:15,16; Deu 32:26,27; Eze 20:9,39; Rom 2:24
my name		"Shemi, ""my name,"" is supplied by one MS. and the LXX."
I will not		Isa 48:5; Isa 42:8; Jhn 5:23

Correlating Passages

mine own

Isa 48:9

For my name's sake will I defer mine anger, and for my praise will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off.

for how

	Isa 52:5	Now therefore, what have I here, saith the LORD, that my people is taken away for nought? they that rule over them make them to howl, saith the LORD; and my name continually every day [is] blasphemed.
	Num 14:15	Now [if] thou shalt kill [all] this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying,
	Num 14:16	Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness.
	Deu 32:26	I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:
	Deu 32:27	Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, [and] lest they should say, Our hand [is] high, and the LORD hath not done all this.
	Eze 20:9	But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, among whom they [were], in whose sight I made myself known unto them, in bringing them forth out of the land of Egypt.
	Eze 20:39	As for you, O house of Israel, thus saith the Lord GOD; Go ye, serve ye every one his idols, and hereafter [also], if ye will not hearken unto me: but pollute ye my holy name no more with your gifts, and with your idols.
	Rom 2:24	For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written.

I will not

	Isa 48:5	I have even from the beginning declared [it] to thee; before it came to pass I shewed [it] thee: lest thou shouldest say, Mine idol hath done them, and my graven image, and my molten image, hath commanded them.
	Isa 42:8	I [am] the LORD: that [is] my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.
	Jhn 5:23	That all [men] should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him.

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Scott, Thomas. "Isaiah 48:11," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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