Romans 2:24

Christian Standard Bible ®

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

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
As the Scriptures say, "People in other nations insult God because of you."

Revised Standard Version
For, as it is written, "The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you."

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
For the name of god is evyll spoken of amonge the Gentyls thorowe you as it is written.

Hebrew Names Version
For "the name of God is blasphemed among the Goyim because of you," just as it is written.

International Standard Version
As it is written, "God's name is being blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you."Isaiah 52:5">[fn]2 Samuel 12:14; Isaiah 52:5; Ezekiel 36:20,23;">[xr]

New American Standard Bible
For "THE NAME OF GOD IS BLASPHEMED AMONG THE GENTILES BECAUSE OF YOU," just as it is written.

New Century Version
just as the Scriptures say: "Those who are not Jews speak against God's name because of you."

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

Webster's Bible Translation
For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles, through you, as it is written.

English Standard Version
For, as it is written, "The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you."

World English Bible
For "the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you," just as it is written.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written.

Weymouth's New Testament
For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentile nations because of you, as Holy Writ declares.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For the name of God is blasfemed bi you among hethene men, as is writun.

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

Berean Standard Bible
As it is written: "God's name is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you."

Contemporary English Version
It is just as the Scriptures tell us, "You have made foreigners say insulting things about God."

Amplified Bible
For, "THE NAME OF GOD IS BLASPHEMED AMONG THE GENTILES BECAUSE OF YOU," just as it is written [in Scripture].

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

Bible in Basic English
For the name of God is shamed among the Gentiles because of you, as it is said in the holy Writings.

Complete Jewish Bible
as it says in the Tanakh, "For it is because of you that God's name is blasphemed by the Goyim."

Darby Translation
For the name of God is blasphemed on your account among the nations, according as it is written.

Etheridge Translation
For the name of Aloha through you is blasphemed among the Gentiles, as it is written.

Murdock Translation
For, the name of God, as it is written, is reviled among the Gentiles on your account.

King James Version (1611)
For the Name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles, through you, as it is written:

New Living Translation
No wonder the Scriptures say, "The Gentiles blaspheme the name of God because of you."

New Life Bible
The Holy Writings say, "God's name is hated by the people who are not Jews because of you."

New Revised Standard
For, as it is written, "The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you."

Geneva Bible (1587)
For ye Name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written.

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

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For the name of God, because of you, is defamed among the nations, - even as it is written.

Douay-Rheims Bible
(For the name of God through you is blasphemed among the Gentiles, as it is written.)

Bishop's Bible (1568)
For the name of God is euyll spoken of among the Gentiles, through you: As it is written.

Good News Translation
The scripture says, "Because of you Jews, the Gentiles speak evil of God."

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

Lexham English Bible
For just as it is written, "The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you."

Literal Translation
For the name of God is blasphemed among the nations through you, even as it has been written: Isa. 52:5

Young's Literal Translation
for the name of God because of you is evil spoken of among the nations, according as it hath been written.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For thorow you is the name of God euell spoken of amonge the Gentyles, as it is wrytten.

Mace New Testament (1729)
for (as it is written) the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles by your miscarriages.

New English Translation
For just as it is written, " the name of God is being blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you ."

New King James Version
For "the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you," Isaiah 52:5; Ezekiel 36:22">[fn] as it is written.

Simplified Cowboy Version
That's why the Good Book says, "Y'all Jews didn't gather the lost, you've run 'em off by giving God a bad name."

New American Standard Bible (1995)
For "THE NAME OF GOD IS BLASPHEMED AMONG THE GENTILES BECAUSE OF YOU," just as it is written.

Legacy Standard Bible
For "the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you," just as it is written.

Contextual Overview

¹⁷Now if you call yourself a Jew, and rely on the law, and boast in God, ¹⁸and know his will, and approve the things that are superior, being instructed from the law, ¹⁹and if you are convinced that you are a guide for the blind, a light to those in darkness, ²⁰an instructor of the ignorant, a teacher of the immature, having the embodiment of knowledge and truth in the law— ²¹you then, who teach another, don’t you teach yourself? You who preach, “You must not steal”—do you steal? ²²You who say, “You must not commit adultery”—do you commit adultery? You who detest idols, do you rob their temples? ²³You who boast in the law, do you dishonor God by breaking the law? ²⁴For, as it is written: The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.²⁵Circumcision benefits you if you observe the law, but if you are a lawbreaker, your circumcision has become uncircumcision. ²⁶So if an uncircumcised man keeps the law’s requirements, will not his uncircumcision be counted as circumcision?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the name: Isaiah 52:5, Lamentations 2:15, Lamentations 2:16, Ezekiel 36:20-23, Matthew 18:7, 1 Timothy 5:14, 1 Timothy 6:1, Titus 2:5, Titus 2:8

as it is written: 2 Samuel 12:14

Reciprocal: Leviticus 18:21 - profane Leviticus 24:11 - blasphemed Nehemiah 5:9 - reproach Psalms 39:8 - make Isaiah 48:11 - for how Ezekiel 20:27 - Yet Ezekiel 22:26 - I am profaned Amos 2:7 - to profane Malachi 1:12 - ye have 2 Peter 2:2 - pernicious ways

Cross-References

Genesis 2:1
So the heavens and the earth and everything in them were completed.

Genesis 2:2
On the seventh day God had completed his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done.

Genesis 2:3
God blessed the seventh day and declared it holy, for on it he rested from all his work of creation.

Genesis 2:4
These are the records of the heavens and the earth, concerning their creation. At the time that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens,

Genesis 2:6
But mist would come up from the earth and water all the ground.

Genesis 2:7
Then the Lord God formed the man out of the dust from the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.

Genesis 2:9
The Lord God caused to grow out of the ground every tree pleasing in appearance and good for food, including the tree of life in the middle of the garden, as well as the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Genesis 2:10
A river went out from Eden to water the garden. From there it divided and became the source of four rivers.

Genesis 2:11
The name of the first is Pishon, which flows through the entire land of Havilah, where there is gold.

Genesis 2:12
Gold from that land is pure; bdellium and onyx are also there.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For the name of God is blasphemed,.... The being and perfections of God, such as his holiness, omniscience, and omnipotence, are denied, or evil spoken of; and also the law of God, and the forms of worship instituted by him:

among the Gentiles through you: through their iniquities, who when they observe them, conclude that the God of Israel is not omniscient, or he would know, and take notice of these things; and that he is not holy, or he could not bear them; nor omnipotent, or he would revenge them:

as it is written; the passage or passages referred to are not mentioned, but are perhaps Isaiah 52:5. In the former of these texts the words are, "they that rule over them make them to howl; saith the Lord, and my name continually every day is blasphemed"; which are spoken of the rulers of the people, either of their ecclesiastical or political rulers, or both; and so Aben Ezra interprets them of גדולי ישראל, "the great men of Israel"; and here by the apostle are applied to their doctors and wise men: and in the latter are these words, "thus saith the Lord God, I do not this for your sakes, O house of Israel, but for my holy name's sake, which ye have profaned among the Heathen"; that is, by their unbecoming walk and conversation, and especially by the disagreeable conduct of their principal men: and the Jews own the same things, and complain of them in much the "same language the apostle here does, saying, "they disgrace the law before the people of the earth, (the common people, or else the Gentiles,) how? a wise man sits and expounds in the congregation, saying, thou shalt not lend upon usury, and he lends upon usury; he says, thou shalt not commit a robbery, and he commits a robbery; he says, לא תגנוב, "thou shalt not steal, and he steals": says R. Berechiah, it happened to one man that his cloak was stolen from him, and he went before the judge about it, and he found it spread upon his bed or couch: and, says the same Rabbi, it happened to a certain man that his pot was stolen from him, and he went before the judge about it, and he found it upon his hearth: hence it is said, "as they were increased they sinned against me, therefore will I change their glory into shame", Hosea 4:7 d.

d Debarim Rabba, sect. 2. fol. 236. 2.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The name of God - The name and character of the true God.

Is blasphemed - Note, Matthew 9:3. That is, your conduct is such as to lead the pagan world to blaspheme and reproach both your religion and its Author. By your hypocrisy and crimes the pagan world is led to despise a religion which is observed to have no effect in purifying and restraining its professors; and of course the reproach will terminate on the Author of your religion - that is, the true God. A life of purity would tend to honor religion and its Author; a life of impurity does the reverse. There is no doubt that this was actually the effect of the deportment of the Jews. They were scattered everywhere; everywhere they were corrupt and wicked; and everywhere they and their religion were despised.

Among the Gentiles - In the midst of whom many Jews lived.

Through you - By means of you, or as the result of your conduct. It may mean, that you Jews do it, or profane the name of God; but the connection seems rather to require the former sense.

As it is written - To what place the apostle has reference, cannot be certainly determined. There are two passages in the Old Testament; which will bear on the case, and perhaps he had them both in his view; Isaiah 52:5; Ezekiel 36:22-23. The meaning is not that the passages in the Old Testament, referred to by the phrase, “as it is written,” had any particular reference to the conduct of the Jews in the time of Paul, but that this had been the character of the people, and the effect of their conduct as a nation, instances of which had been before observed and recorded by the prophets. The same thing has occurred to a most melancholy extentin regard to professed Christian nations. For purposes of commerce, and science, and war, and traffic, people from nations that are nominally Christian have gone into almost every part of the pagan world. But they have not often been real Christians. They have been intent on gain; and have to a melancholy extent been profane, and unprincipled, and profligate people. Yet the pagan have regarded them as Christians; as fair specimens of the effect of the religion of Christ. They have learned therefore, to abuse the name of Christian, and the Author of the Christian religion, as encouraging and promoting profligacy of life. Hence, one reason, among thousands, of the importance of Christian missions to the pagan. It is well to disabuse the pagan world of their erroneous opinions of the tendency of Christianity. It is well to teach them that we do not regard these people as Christians. As we have sent to them the worst part of our population, it is well to send them holy men, who shall exhibit to them the true nature of Christianity, and raise our character in their eyes as a Christian people. And were there no other result of Christian missions, it would be worth all the expense and toil attending them, to raise the national character in the view of the pagan world.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 24. For the name of God is blasphemed, .] In Debarim rabba, sect. 2, fol. 251, it is said:-"The rulers destroy the influence of their own words among the people and this is done when a rabbin, sitting and teaching in the academy, says, Do not take usury, and himself takes it; do not commit rapine, and himself commits it; do not steal, and himself steals." That they were exceedingly lax in their morals, the following fact proves:- "Rabbi Ilai said, If a man see that his evil propensities are likely to prevail against him, let him go to some place where he is not known, and let him put on black clothes, and cover his head with a black veil; and then let him do whatsoever he pleases, lest the name of God should be publicly profaned." Moed katon, fol. 17. 1. In Sohar Levit. fol. 31, col. 122, it is said:- "On three accounts the Jews are obliged to remain in captivity -

1. Because they openly reproach the Shechinah -

2. Because they profane themselves before the Shechinah -

3. Because they turn away their faces from the Shechinah."

But it would be endless to collect from their history the proofs of the charges brought here against them by the apostle. See Whitby, Schoettgen, and others.