Nehemiah 5:9
9So I said, “The thing that you are doing is not good. Ought you not to walk ain the fear of our God bto prevent the taunts of the nations our enemies?Psalms 74:10
10How long, O God, cis the foe to scoff?Is the enemy to revile your name forever?
Isaiah 52:5
5Now therefore what have I here,” declares the Lord, “seeing that my people are taken away for nothing? Their rulers wail,” declares the Lord, “and dcontinually all the day my name is despised.Ezekiel 36:20-23
20But when they came to the nations, wherever they came, ethey profaned my holy name, in that people said of them, ‘These are the people of the Lord, and yet they had to go out of his land.’ 21But I had concern ffor my holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations to which they came.I Will Put My Spirit Within You
22“Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord God: gIt is not for your sake, O house of Israel, that I am about to act, but for the sake of my holy name, hwhich you have profaned among the nations to which you came. 23 iAnd I will vindicate the holiness of my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, and which you have profaned among them. jAnd the nations will know that I am the Lord, declares the Lord God, when through you I vindicate my holiness before their eyes.Matthew 18:7
Temptations to Sin
7“Woe to the world for ktemptations to sin! ▼▼Greek stumbling blocks
mFor it is necessary that temptations come, nbut woe to the one by whom the temptation comes! Romans 2:24
24For, oas it is written, “The name of God is blasphemed pamong the Gentiles because of you.”
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