For My Sake

• Deception
• Temptation

Say, I pray thee, thou art My sister: that it may be well with me For thy Sake; and My soul shall live because of thee.

And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the fear of God is not in this place; and they will slay me For My wife's Sake.

• Isaac
• Communion

And the LORD appeared unto him the same night, and said, I am the God of Abraham thy father: fear not, For I am with thee, and will bless thee, and multiply thy seed For My servant Abraham's Sake.

• Moses
• Unselfishness

And Moses said unto him, Enviest thou For My Sake? would God that all the LORD'S people were prophets, and that the LORD would put his spirit upon them!

Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned My wrath away from the children of Israel, while he was zealous For My Sake among them, that I consumed not the children of Israel in My jealousy.

Then said David, O LORD God of Israel, thy servant hath certainly heard that Saul seeketh to come to Keilah, to destroy the city For My Sake.

And David said unto him, Fear not: For I will surely shew thee kindness For Jonathan thy father's Sake, and will restore thee all the land of Saul thy father; and thou shalt eat bread at My table continually.

• David
• Parents

And the king commanded Joab and Abishai and Ittai, saying, Deal gently For My Sake with the young man, even with Absalom. And all the people heard when the king gave all the captains charge concerning Absalom.

• Government

Howbeit I will not rend away all the kingdom; but will give one tribe to thy son For David My servant's Sake, and For Jerusalem's Sake which I have chosen.

(But he shall have one tribe For My servant David's Sake, and For Jerusalem's Sake, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel:)

• David
• Obedience

Howbeit I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand: but I will make him prince all the days of his life For David My servant's Sake, whom I chose, because he kept My commandments and My statutes:

For I will defend this city, to save it, For mine own Sake, and For My servant David's Sake.

And I will add unto thy days fifteen years; and I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria; and I will defend this city For mine own Sake, and For My servant David's Sake.

• Women

My breath is strange to My wife, though I intreated For the children's Sake of mine own body.

Return, O LORD, deliver My soul: oh save me For thy mercies' Sake.

He restoreth My soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness For his name's Sake.

Remember not the sins of My youth, nor My transgressions: according to thy mercy remember thou me For thy goodness' Sake, O LORD.

• Fort

For thou art My rock and My fortress; therefore For thy name's Sake lead me, and guide me.

• Stumbling
• David
• Unselfishness

Let not them that wait on thee, O Lord GOD of hosts, be ashamed For My Sake: let not those that seek thee be confounded For My Sake, O God of Israel.

• Persecuting
• Character
• Fasting

Because For thy Sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered My face. I am become a stranger unto My brethren, and an alien unto My mother's children. For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me. When I wept, and chastened My soul with fasting, that was to My reproach.

Quicken me, O LORD, For thy name's Sake: For thy righteousness' Sake bring My soul out of trouble.

For I will defend this city to save it For mine own Sake, and For My servant David's Sake.

• Election

For Jacob My servant's Sake, and Israel mine elect, I have even called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me.

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 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.

• Salvation

For Zion's Sake will I not hold My peace, and For Jerusalem's Sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth.

Hear the word of the LORD, ye that tremble at his word; Your brethren that hated you, that cast you out For My name's Sake, said, Let the LORD be glorified: but he shall appear to your joy, and they shall be ashamed.

• Persecution
• Prayer

O LORD, thou knowest: remember me, and visit me, and revenge me of My persecutors; take me not away in thy longsuffering: know that For thy Sake I have suffered rebuke.

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.

Nevertheless I withdrew mine hand, and wrought For My name's Sake, that it should not be polluted in the sight of the heathen, in whose sight I brought them forth.

And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have wrought with you For My name's Sake, not according to your wicked ways, nor according to your corrupt doings, O ye house of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.

• Prayer

O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord, hearken and do; defer not, For thine own Sake, O My God: For thy city and thy people are called by thy name.

And he said unto them, Take me up, and cast me forth into the sea; so shall the sea be calm unto you: For I know that For My Sake this great tempest is upon you.

Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, For My Sake.

And ye shall be brought before governors and kings For My Sake, For a testimony against them and the Gentiles.

And ye shall be hated of all men For My name's Sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.

He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life For My Sake shall find it.

For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life For My Sake shall find it.

And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, For My name's Sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life.

Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations For My name's Sake.

For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life For My Sake and the gospel's, the same shall save it.

And Jesus answered and said, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, For My Sake, and the gospel's,

But take heed to yourselves: For they shall deliver you up to councils; and in the synagogues ye shall be beaten: and ye shall be brought before rulers and kings For My Sake, For a testimony against them.

And ye shall be hated of all men For My name's Sake: but he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.

For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life For My Sake, the same shall save it.

But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you, and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues, and into prisons, being brought before kings and rulers For My name's Sake.

And ye shall be hated of all men For My name's Sake.

• Peter
• Love

Peter said unto him, Lord, why cannot I follow thee now? I will lay down My life For thy Sake.

Jesus answered him, Wilt thou lay down thy life For My Sake? Verily, verily, I say unto thee, The cock shall not crow, till thou hast denied me thrice.

But all these things will they do unto you For My name's Sake, because they know not him that sent me.

For I will shew him how great things he must suffer For My name's Sake.

• Church
• Temple

Who now rejoice in My sufferings For you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in My flesh For his body's Sake, which is the church:

And hast borne, and hast patience, and For My name's Sake hast laboured, and hast not fainted.