Ezekiel 20:22

KJV1611 – Modern English

Nevertheless I withdrew my hand, and acted for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted in the sight of the heathen, in whose sight I brought them out.

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  • Ezek 20:9 : 9 But I acted 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 to them, in bringing them out of the land of Egypt.
  • Ezek 20:14 : 14 But I acted for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, in whose sight I brought them out.
  • Ps 78:38 : 38 But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and did not destroy them: yes, many a time he turned away his anger, and did not stir up all his wrath.
  • Isa 48:9-9 : 9 For my name's sake I will defer my anger, and for my praise I will restrain it for you, that I do not cut you off. 10 Behold, I have refined you, but not with silver; I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction. 11 For my own sake, even for my own sake, I will do it: for how should my name be polluted? And I will not give my glory to another.
  • Jer 14:21 : 21 Do not abhor us, for Your name's sake; do not disgrace the throne of Your glory; remember, do not break Your covenant with us.
  • Jer 14:7 : 7 O LORD, though our iniquities testify against us, act for Your name's sake: for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against You.
  • Ps 79:9-9 : 9 Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of Your name; deliver us, and cleanse away our sins, for Your name's sake. 10 Why should the heathen say, Where is their God? Let Him be known among the heathen in our sight by avenging the blood of Your servants which is shed.
  • Job 13:21 : 21 Withdraw your hand far from me, and let not your dread make me afraid.
  • Ezek 20:17 : 17 Nevertheless my eye spared them from destroying them, nor did I make an end of them in the wilderness.
  • Dan 9:17 : 17 Now therefore, O our God, hear the prayer of Your servant, and his supplications, and cause Your face to shine upon Your sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord's sake.
  • Dan 9:19 : 19 O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord, listen and act; do not delay, for Your own sake, O my God: for Your city and Your people are called by Your name.
  • Ps 25:11 : 11 For Your name's sake, O LORD, pardon my iniquity, for it is great.
  • Ps 115:1 : 1 Not unto us, O LORD, not unto us, but to Your name give glory, for Your mercy and for Your truth's sake.
  • Lam 2:8 : 8 The Lord has purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: He has stretched out a line, He has not withdrawn His hand from destroying: therefore He made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ezek 20:12-18
    7 verses
    92%

    12Moreover I also gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the LORD who sanctifies them.

    13But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they did not walk in my statutes, and they despised my judgments, which if a man does, he shall even live in them; and they greatly polluted my sabbaths: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them in the wilderness, to consume them.

    14But I acted for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, in whose sight I brought them out.

    15Yet also I lifted up my hand to them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands;

    16Because they despised my judgments, and did not walk in my statutes, but polluted my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.

    17Nevertheless my eye spared them from destroying them, nor did I make an end of them in the wilderness.

    18But I said to their children in the wilderness, Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers, nor observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols:

  • Ezek 20:6-10
    5 verses
    88%

    6In the day that I lifted up my hand to them, to bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had spied for them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands:

    7Then I said to them, Cast away every man the abominations of his eyes, and do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.

    8But they rebelled against me, and would not listen to me: they did not cast away every man the abominations of their eyes, nor did they forsake the idols of Egypt: then I said, I will pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.

    9But I acted 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 to them, in bringing them out of the land of Egypt.

    10Therefore I caused them to go out of the land of Egypt, and brought them into the wilderness.

  • Ezek 20:23-24
    2 verses
    82%

    23I lifted up my hand to them also in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the heathen, and disperse them through the countries;

    24Because they had not executed my judgments, but had despised my statutes, and had polluted my sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers' idols.

  • Ezek 20:21
    80%

    21Nevertheless the children rebelled against me: they did not walk in my statutes, nor kept my judgments to do them, which if a man does, he shall even live in them; they polluted my sabbaths: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.

  • Ezek 36:18-23
    6 verses
    79%

    18Therefore I poured my fury upon them for the blood that they had shed upon the land, and for their idols with which they had polluted it:

    19And I scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed through the countries: according to their way and according to their doings I judged them.

    20And when they entered among the nations, wherever they went, they profaned my holy name, when they said to them, These are the people of the LORD, and are gone out of his land.

    21But I had pity for my holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations, wherever they went.

    22Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord GOD; I do not this for your sakes, O house of Israel, but for my holy name's sake, which you have profaned among the nations, wherever you went.

    23And I will sanctify my great name, which was profaned among the nations, which you have profaned in the midst of them; and the nations shall know that I am the LORD, says the Lord GOD, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.

  • Isa 48:11
    75%

    11For my own sake, even for my own sake, I will do it: for how should my name be polluted? And I will not give my glory to another.

  • Isa 48:9
    75%

    9For my name's sake I will defer my anger, and for my praise I will restrain it for you, that I do not cut you off.

  • Lev 26:44-45
    2 verses
    73%

    44And yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them: for I am the LORD their God.

    45But I will for their sakes remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God: I am the LORD.

  • Ezek 39:24-25
    2 verses
    72%

    24According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions I have done to them, and hid my face from them.

    25Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Now I will bring back the captives of Jacob, and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel, and will be jealous for my holy name.

  • Ezek 20:34
    72%

    34And I will bring you out from the people, and will gather you out of the countries where you are scattered, with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out.

  • Ezek 20:44
    72%

    44And you shall know that I am the LORD, when I have worked with you for my name's sake, not according to your wicked ways, nor according to your corrupt doings, O house of Israel, says the Lord GOD.

  • Ezek 39:7
    72%

    7So I will make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel, and I will not let them defile my holy name any more: and the nations shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.

  • Ezek 22:14-15
    2 verses
    71%

    14Can your heart endure, or can your hands be strong, in the days when I shall deal with you? I the LORD have spoken it, and will do it.

    15And I will scatter you among the heathen, and disperse you in the countries, and will purge your filthiness out of you.

  • 2 Chr 7:20
    71%

    20Then I will uproot them from My land which I have given them; and this house, which I have sanctified for My name, I will cast out of My sight, and will make it a proverb and a byword among all nations.

  • Lev 20:23
    71%

    23And you shall not walk in the manners of the nation which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.

  • Deut 32:27
    71%

    27Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should misbehave themselves, and lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the LORD has not done all this.

  • Ps 106:8
    70%

    8Nevertheless, he saved them for his name's sake, that he might make his mighty power known.

  • Ezek 39:27
    70%

    27When I have brought them back from the peoples, and gathered them out of their enemies' lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations.

  • Lev 22:32
    70%

    32Neither shall you profane my holy name; but I will be hallowed among the children of Israel: I am the LORD who sanctifies you,

  • Jer 2:7
    70%

    7And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat its fruit and its goodness; but when you entered, you defiled my land, and made my heritage an abomination.

  • Isa 29:23
    70%

    23But when he sees his children, the work of my hands, in the midst of him, they shall sanctify my name, and sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall fear the God of Israel.

  • 2 Sam 22:22
    70%

    22For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.

  • Ezek 39:21
    69%

    21And I will set my glory among the nations, and all the nations shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon them.

  • Ezek 20:42
    69%

    42And you shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall bring you into the land of Israel, into the country for which I lifted up my hand to give it to your fathers.

  • Neh 1:9
    69%

    9But if you turn to Me, and keep My commandments, and do them; though there were of you cast out to the farthest part of the heaven, yet I will gather them from there, and will bring them to the place that I have chosen to set My name there.

  • Ezek 14:11
    69%

    11That the house of Israel may no longer go astray from me, nor be polluted anymore with all their transgressions; but that they may be my people, and I may be their God, says the Lord GOD.

  • Ezek 20:28
    69%

    28For when I had brought them into the land, for which I lifted up my hand to give it to them, then they saw every high hill, and all the thick trees, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provoking of their offering: there also they made their sweet savor, and poured out there their drink offerings.

  • Jer 1:16
    69%

    16And I will utter My judgments against them concerning all their wickedness, who have forsaken Me, and have burned incense to other gods, and worshipped the works of their own hands.

  • Ezek 20:38
    69%

    38And I will purge out from among you the rebels, and those who transgress against me: I will bring them out of the country where they stay, and they shall not enter into the land of Israel: and you shall know that I am the LORD.

  • Isa 47:6
    69%

    6I was angry with My people, I have defiled My inheritance and given them into your hand. You showed them no mercy; upon the elderly you have laid your yoke very heavily.

  • Exod 9:16
    69%

    16And indeed, for this purpose, I have raised you up, to show in you my power; that my name may be declared throughout all the earth.