Bible Strands
Romans 2:24
As it is written: “God’s name is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.”
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Paul addresses Jewish interlocutors who boast in the law while simultaneously breaking it. He delivers this statement during a direct confrontation about their failure to uphold the covenant they claim to represent.
The words — βλασφημεῖται (blasphēmeitai) = is blasphemed; ὄνομα (onoma) = the name. The Greek syntax places the divine name as the direct object of the passive verb, linking the profanity directly to the audience's actions.
The thread — The quotation traces back to Isaiah 52:5 and Ezekiel 36:20, where Israel's exile and idolatry caused foreign nations to speak evil of Yahweh. Peter later applies the same pattern to false teachers whose behavior brings the way of truth into disrepute (2 Peter 2:2).
Why it lands — The text states that Gentile contempt for God arises directly from the hypocrisy of those who claim His law. It demands that a reader examine whether their conduct protects or provokes the reputation of God.
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The Greek words
King James Version
For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written.
Cross-references
- Ezekiel 36:20 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.’
- 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.
- 2 Peter 2:2 Many will follow in their depravity, and because of them the way of truth will be defamed.
- Lamentations 2:15 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?”
- 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.”
- Titus 2:8 and wholesome speech that is above reproach, so that anyone who opposes us will be ashamed, having nothing bad to say about us.
- 1 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.
- Titus 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.
- Matthew 18:7 Woe to the world for the causes of sin. These stumbling blocks must come, but woe to the man through whom they come!
- 1 Timothy 5:14 So I advise the younger widows to marry, have children, and manage their households, denying the adversary occasion for slander.