Romans 2:24
For evil is spoken of the Name of God among the nations because of you, according as it has been written.
Literal Standard 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 who boast in the Law, through the transgression of the Law do you dishonor God?
Cross References
2 Samuel 12:14only, because you have caused the enemies of YHWH to greatly despise by this thing, also—the son who is born to you surely dies.”
Lamentations 2:15Everyone passing by the way clapped hands at you, || They have hissed—and they shake the head || At the daughter of Jerusalem: “Is this the city of which they said: The perfection of beauty, a joy to all the land?”
Matthew 18:7Woe to the world from the stumbling-blocks! For there is necessity for the stumbling-blocks to come, but woe to that man through whom the stumbling-block comes!
1 Timothy 6:1As many as are servants under a yoke, let them reckon their own masters worthy of all honor, that evil may not be spoken of the Name of God and the teaching;
Titus 2:8sound discourse [that is] blameless, so that he who is of the contrary may be ashamed, having nothing evil to say concerning you.
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 →