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For my name’s sake - (See the notes at Isaiah 43:25). It is possible that the purpose of this verse is to answer an objection.
‘If th…

For my name’s sake ... —The thought is twofold, in answer to the implied question why Jehovah had not punished so guilty a people:…

"I cannot spare you for your own sake; but I will spare you for my name's sake. I cannot spare you because of anything good in you; but I will spar…

For my name’s sake. After having reproached the people with that malice which was natural to their fathers from the beginning, and which h…

For my name's sake will I defer my anger From age to age, for those sins which had been committed, and continued in ever …

We ourselves have nothing to plead with God as a reason for Him to show mercy on us. It is for His praise, to the honor of His mercy, to spare.
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Hear these things, O house of Jacob. Here he promises the liberation of the people. This is divided into two parts.
In th…
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Albert Barnes
AlbertBarnes