Cross-references Explore similar Bible verses on 2 Samuel 12:14 in English Standard Version "Nevertheless, because by this deed you have utterly scorned the Lord, the child who is born to you shall die.”" Isa 52:5 Now therefore what have I here,” declares the Lord, “seeing that my people are taken away for nothing? Their rulers wail,” declares the Lord, “and continually all the day my name is despised. Eze 36:20 But when they came to the nations, wherever they came, they 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.’ Eze 36:23 And I will vindicate the holiness of my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, and which you have profaned among them. And the nations will know that I am the Lord, declares the Lord God, when through you I vindicate my holiness before their eyes. Ro 2:24 For, as it is written, “The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.”