Romans 2:24
For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you, just as it is written.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written.
In Context
23Thou who boast in law, dishonor God by thy transgression of the law.
Cross References
2 Samuel 12:14However, because by this deed thou have given great occasion to the enemies of LORD to blaspheme, the child also that is born to thee shall surely die.
Lamentations 2:15All who pass by clap their hands at thee. They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, [saying], Is this the city that men called The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?
Matthew 18:7Woe to the world because of stumbling-blocks. For it is necessary that the stumbling-blocks come, yet woe to that man through whom the stumbling-block comes.
1 Timothy 6:1Let bondmen, as many as are under a yoke, regard their own masters worthy of all respect, so that the name of God and the doctrine may not be blasphemed.
Titus 2:8sound speech, irreproachable, so that the man of opposition may be ashamed, having nothing bad to say about us.
Matthew Henry on Romans 2:18-29
The Pretensions of the Jews; The Depravity of the Jews. ( a. d. 58.) 17 Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God, 18 And knowest his will, and approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law; 19 And art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness, 20 An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law. 21 Thou therefore which teachest… Read the whole commentary →