Romans 2:24
For, the name of God, as it is written, is reviled among the Gentiles on your account.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written.
In Context
23And thou who gloriest in the law, dost thou, by acting contrary to the law, insult God himself?
Cross References
Matthew 18:7Woe to the world because of stumbling blocks! For it must be, that stumbling blocks come. But, woe to the person by whose means the stumbling blocks come.
1 Timothy 6:1Let them who are under the yoke of servitude, hold their masters in all honor; lest the name of God and his doctrine be reproached.
Titus 2:8such as is sober and uncorrupt; and let no one despise it: so that he who riseth up against us, may be ashamed, seeing he can say nothing odious against 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 →