Romans 2:24 BSB — MannaFest

Romans 2:24

As it is written: “God’s name is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.”

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you, even as it is written.

KJV

For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written.

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Commentary

2 voices

Tertullian

ON IDOLATRY 14 (220)

There is a blasphemy which we must avoid completely, viz., that any of us should give a pagan good cause for blasphemy by deceit or injury or insult or some other matter justifying complaint. It is that blasphemy in which the Name is deservedly blamed, so that the Lord is deservedly angry. But the words "Because of you my Name is blasphemed" seem to cover every blasphemy. So then, are we all lost, since the whole Roman circus assails the Name, for no fault of ours, with its wicked outcries?

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

Origen of Alexandria

COMMENTARY ON THE EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS (253)

"But if you are called a Jew, and rest in the law, and glory in God, and know his will, and approve the more useful things, being instructed by the law, and are confident that you are a guide of the blind, a light of those who are in darkness, an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of infants, having the form of knowledge and of truth in the law. You then who teach another, do you not teach yourself? You who preach that a man should not steal, do you steal?

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

The greatest obstructors of the success of the word are those whose bad lives contradict their good doctrine, who in the pulpit preach so well that it is a pity they should ever come out, and out of the pulpit live so ill that it is a pity they should ever come in. He specifies three particular sins that abound among the Jews:-- (1.) Stealing.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

This was the condemnation in David's case, that he had given great occasion to the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme, 2 Sam. xii. And the apostle here refers to the same charge against their forefathers: As it is written,

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Behold--"But if" is, beyond doubt, the true reading here. (It differs but in a single letter from the received reading, and the sense is the same).

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Original language & word study

13 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
τὸ	to	<the>	G3588 →
γὰρ	gar	For	G1063 →
ὄνομα	onoma	the name	G3686 →
τοῦ	tou	<the>	G3588 →
θεοῦ	theou	of God	G2316 →
δι᾽	di᾽	through	G1223 →
ὑμᾶς	humas	you	G4771 →
βλασφημεῖται	blasphēmeitai	is blasphemed	G987 →
ἐν	en	among	G1722 →
τοῖς	tois	the	G3588 →
ἔθνεσιν	ethnesin	Gentiles	G1484 →
καθὼς	kathōs	even as	G2531 →
γέγραπται.¶	gegraptai	it has been written.	G1125 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
2 Peter 2:2
Many will follow in their depravity, and because of them the way of truth will be defamed.
leads to
- Jude 1:10
  These men, however, slander what they do not understand, and like irrational animals, they will be destroyed by the things they do instinctively.
- 2 Peter 2:15
  They have left the straight way and wandered off to follow the way of Balaam son of Beor, who loved the wages of wickedness.
- Matthew 24:24
  For false Christs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and wonders that would deceive even the elect, if that were possible.
- Acts 16:17
  This girl followed Paul and the rest of us, shouting, “These men are servants of the Most High God, who are proclaiming to you the way of salvation!”
- 1 Peter 2:12
  Conduct yourselves with such honor among the Gentiles that, though they slander you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day He visits us.
Through
2 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.”
leads to
- Psalms 89:31–33
  if they violate My statutes and fail to keep My commandments,
- Isaiah 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.
- Proverbs 3:11–12
  My son, do not reject the discipline of the LORD, and do not loathe His rebuke;

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Romans

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Romans