Romans 2:24
(For because of you the name of God is being blasphemed among the Gentiles, just as it was written.)
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written.
In Context
23You would glory in the law, but through a betrayal of the law you dishonor God.
Cross References
2 Samuel 12:14Yet truly, because you have given occasion to the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme, because of this word, the son who was born to you: dying he shall die.”
Lamentations 2:15SAMECH. All those who passed by the way have clapped their hands over you. They have hissed and shook their heads over the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, “Is this the city of perfect dignity, the joy of all the earth?”
Matthew 18:7Woe to a world that leads people astray! Although it is necessary for temptations to arise, nevertheless: Woe to that man through whom temptation arises!
1 Timothy 6:1Whoever are servants under the yoke, let them consider their masters to be worthy of every honor, lest the name and doctrine of the Lord be blasphemed.
Titus 2:8with sound words, irreproachably, so that he who is an opponent may dread that he has nothing evil 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 →