Nehemiah 5:9
5:9 Then I said, “The thing that you are doing is wrong! Should you not conduct yourselves in the fear of our God in order to avoid the reproach of the Gentiles who are our enemies?
Psalms 74:10
74:10 How long, O God, will the adversary hurl insults?
Will the enemy blaspheme your name forever?
Isaiah 52:5
52:5 And now, what do we have here?” says the Lord.
“Indeed my people have been carried away for nothing,
those who rule over them taunt,” says the Lord,
“and my name is constantly slandered all day long.
Ezekiel 36:20-23
36:20 But when they arrived in the nations where they went, they profaned my holy name. It was said of them, ‘These are the people of the
Lord, yet they have departed from his land.’
36:21 I was concerned for my holy reputation
which the house of Israel profaned among the nations where they went.
36:22 “Therefore say to the house of Israel, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: It is not for your sake that I am about to act, O house of Israel, but for the sake of my holy reputation which you profaned among the nations where you went.
36:23 I will magnify my great name that has been profaned among the nations, that you have profaned among them. The nations will know that I am the Lord, declares the sovereign Lord, when I magnify myself among you in their sight.
Matthew 18:7
18:7 Woe to the world because of stumbling blocks! It
is necessary that stumbling blocks come, but woe to the person through whom they come.
Romans 2:24
2:24 For just as it is written, “
the name of God is being blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.”