Romans 2:24

As Scripture says, “God's character is defamed among the foreigners because of you.”

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

23You boast about having the law, but don't you misrepresent God by breaking it?

25Being circumcised has value only if you do what the law says. But if you break the law, your circumcision is as worthless as those who are not circumcised at all.

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Cross References

2 Samuel 12:14“But because by doing this you have treated the Lord with complete contempt, the son you have will die.”

Lamentations 2:15Everyone who passes by mock you, clapping their hands, hissing and shaking their heads in scorn at the Daughter of Jerusalem. “Is this really the city that people called the perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth?” they ask.

Matthew 18:7What a disaster is coming on the world for all its temptations to sin! Temptations will surely come, but it will be a disaster for the person through whom the temptation comes!

1 Timothy 6:1All who are bound under slavery should consider their masters worthy of respect, so that God's name and Christian beliefs won't be defamed.

Titus 2:8sharing healthy beliefs that can't be criticized. In this way those who are opposed will be ashamed of themselves and won't have anything 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 →

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