Romans 2:24
For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentile nations because of you, as Holy Writ declares.
Weymouth NT (1912)
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 make your boast in the Law, do you offend against its commands and so dishonour God?
Cross References
Matthew 18:7"Alas for the world because of causes of falling! They cannot but come, but alas for each man through whom they come!
1 Timothy 6:1Let all who are under the yoke of slavery hold their own masters to be deserving of honour, so that the name of God and the Christian teaching may not be spoken against.
Titus 2:8and healthy language which no one can censure, so that our opponents may feel ashamed at having nothing evil to say 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 →