Romans 2:24
For "the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you," just as it is written.
New Heart English 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 glory in the law, through your disobedience of the law do you dishonor God?
Cross References
2 Samuel 12:14However, because by this deed you have given great occasion to the Lord's enemies to blaspheme, the child also who is born to you shall surely die."
Lamentations 2:15All that pass by clap their hands at you,they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying,"Is this the city that men called 'The perfection of beauty,' 'The joy of the whole earth'?"AYIN
Matthew 18:7"Woe to the world because of stumbling blocks. For there will always be something to cause people to stumble, but woe to the person through whom the stumbling block comes!
1 Timothy 6:1Let as many as are bondservants under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor, that the name of God and the doctrine not be blasphemed.
Titus 2:8and a sound message that cannot be condemned; that he who opposes you may be ashamed, having no evil thing 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 →