Romans 2:24

For the name of God is shamed among the Gentiles because of you, as it is said in the holy Writings.

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For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written.

In Context

23You who take pride in the law, are you doing wrong to the honour of God by behaviour which is against the law?

25It is true that circumcision is of use if you keep the law, but if you go against the law it is as if you had it not.

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Cross References

2 Samuel 12:14But still, because you have had no respect for the Lord, death will certainly overtake the child who has newly come to birth.

Lamentations 2:15All who go by make a noise with their hands at you; they make hisses, shaking their heads at the daughter of Jerusalem, and saying, Is this the town which was the crown of everything beautiful, the joy of all the earth?

Matthew 18:7A curse is on the earth because of trouble! for it is necessary for trouble to come; but unhappy is that man through whom the trouble comes.

1 Timothy 6:1Let all who are servants under the yoke give all honour to their masters, so that no evil may be said against the name of God and his teaching.

Titus 2:8Saying true and right words, against which no protest may be made, so that he who is not on our side may be put to shame, unable to say any evil of 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 →

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