Romans 2:24
For “the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you,” just as it has been written.
Unlocked Literal Bible
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, do you dishonor God by breaking the law?
Cross References
2 Samuel 12:14However, because by this act you have despised Yahweh, the child who is born to you will surely die.”
Lamentations 2:15All those who pass along the road clap their hands at you. 1 They hiss and shake their heads against the daughter of Jerusalem and say, 1 “Is this the city that they called 'The Perfection of Beauty,' 'The Joy for All of Earth'?” 1
Matthew 18:7Woe to the world because of stumbling blocks! For it is necessary that those stumbling blocks come, but woe to the person through whom those stumbling blocks come!
1 Timothy 6:1Let all who are under the yoke as slaves regard their own masters as worthy of all honor. They should do this so that the name of God and the teaching might not be blasphemed.
Titus 2:8and a correct message, so that anyone who opposes you may be ashamed because they have nothing 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 →