Romans 2:24
22 You who forbid adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?
23 You who boast in the law, do you dishonor God by breaking the law?
As it is written: “God’s name is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.”
25 Circumcision has value if you observe the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.
26 If a man who is not circumcised keeps the requirements of the law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision?
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- As it is written: “God’s name is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.”
- KJV
- For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written.
- WEB
- For “the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you,” just as it is written.
- ASV
- For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you, even as it is written.
- DARBY
- For the name of God is blasphemed on your account among the nations, according as it is written.
- BLB
- As it has been written: “For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you⁺.”
- ÅB
- For på grunn av dere spottes Guds navn blant hedningene, som det står skrevet.
- OTB
- Som det står skrevet: "På grunn av deg blir Guds navn spottet blant hedningene."
- B1930
- For for eders skyld spottes Guds navn blandt hedningene, som skrevet er.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Ezekiel 36:20–23
And wherever they went among the nations, they profaned My holy name, because it was said of them, ‘These are the people of the LORD, yet they had to leave His land.’
Read in contextIsaiah 52:5
And now what have I here? declares the LORD. For My people have been taken without cause; those who rule them taunt, declares the LORD, and My name is blasphemed continually all day long.
Read in context2 Peter 2:2
Many will follow in their depravity, and because of them the way of truth will be defamed.
Read in contextLamentations 2:15–16
All who pass by clap their hands at you in scorn. They hiss and shake their heads at the Daughter of Jerusalem: “Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth?”
Read in context2 Samuel 12:14
Nevertheless, because by this deed you have shown utter contempt for the word of the LORD, the son born to you will surely die.”
Read in contextTitus 2:8
and wholesome speech that is above reproach, so that anyone who opposes us will be ashamed to have nothing bad to say about us.
Read in context1 Timothy 6:1
All who are under the yoke of slavery should regard their masters as fully worthy of honor, so that God’s name and our teaching will not be discredited.
Read in contextTitus 2:5
to be self-controlled, pure, managers of their households, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, so that the word of God will not be discredited.
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