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1Not unto us, O LORD, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory, for thy mercy, and for thy truth's sake.
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Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name: and deliver us, and purge away our sins, for thy name's sake. …
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.
Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name: bring an offering, and come into his courts.
But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, in whose sight I brought them out.
Not for your sakes do I this, saith the Lord GOD, be it known unto you: be ashamed and confounded for your own ways, O house of Israel.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-8)Sufficient care is here taken to answer both the pretensions of self and the reproaches of idolaters. I. Boasting is here for ever excluded, Ps. 115:1. Let no opinion of our own merits have any room either in our prayers or in our praises, but let both centre in God’s glory. 1. Have we received any mercy, gone through any service, or gained any success? We must not assume the glory of it to oursel…
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