Romans 2:24
For, as it is written, “the name of God is on your account blasphemed among the gentiles.”
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written.
In Context
23Dost thou who boastest of the Law, dishonor God by breaking the Law?
Cross References
Lamentations 2:15All that that pass by clap their hands at thee; They hiss, and shake their heads at the daughter of Jerusalem. “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 must needs be that stumbling-blocks come; but woe to the man through whom the stumbling-block cometh!
1 Timothy 6:1Let all who are under the yoke as bond-servants count their own masters worthy of all honor, that the name of God and his doctrine be not blasphemed.
Titus 2:8sound speech that cannot be condemned; that he that is opposed to us may be put to shame, having no evil thing to say 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 →