Parallel Verses

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.

New American Standard Bible

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

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

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

International Standard Version

As it is written, "God's name is being blasphemed among the gentiles because of you."

A Conservative Version

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

American Standard Version

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

Amplified

For, “the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you,” just as it is written [in Scripture].

An Understandable Version

For God's name is being spoken against among the Gentiles because of your behavior, just as it is written. [See Isa. 52:5].

Anderson New Testament

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

Common New Testament

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

Daniel Mace New Testament

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

Darby Translation

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

Godbey New Testament

For the name of God is blasphemed by you among the Gentiles, as has been written.

Goodspeed New Testament

For, as the Scripture says, the very name of God is abused among the heathen, because of you!

John Wesley New Testament

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

Julia Smith Translation

For the name of God by you is blasphemed in the nations, as it has been written.

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

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

Modern King James verseion

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

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

For the name of God is evil spoken-of among the gentiles, through you, as it is written.

Moffatt New Testament

Why, it is owing to you that the name of God is maligned among the Gentiles, as scripture says!

Montgomery New Testament

For the name of God is continually blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you, even as the Scripture itself says.

NET Bible

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

New Heart English Bible

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

Noyes New Testament

For, as it is written, "the name of God is on your account blasphemed among the gentiles."

Sawyer New Testament

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

The Emphasized Bible

For the name of God, because of you, is defamed among the nations, - even as it is written.

Thomas Haweis New Testament

for the name of God is blasphemed through you among the heathen, as it is written.

Twentieth Century New Testament

For, as Scripture says-'The name of God is reviled among the Gentiles because of you'!

Webster

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

Weymouth New Testament

For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentile nations because of you, as Holy Writ declares.

Williams New Testament

For, as the Scripture says, the name of God is abused among the heathen because of you.

World English Bible

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

Worrell New Testament

For the name of God is blasphemed among the gentiles, because of you, as it has been written.

Worsley New Testament

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

Youngs Literal Translation

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

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
For
γάρ 
Gar 
for, , not tr
Usage: 825

the name
ὄνομα 
Onoma 
name, named, called, surname , named , not tr
Usage: 162

of God
θεός 
theos 
Usage: 1151

βλασφημέω 
Blasphemeo 
Usage: 31

ἐν 
En 
in, by, with, among, at, on, through,
Usage: 2128

the Gentiles
ἔθνος 
Ethnos 
Usage: 132

διά 
Dia 
by, through, with, for, for ... sake, therefore , for this cause , because,
Usage: 527

you
ὑμᾶς 
Humas 
you, ye, for your sakes Trans, not tr,
Usage: 314

as
καθώς 
Kathos 
as, even as, according as, when, according to, how, as well as
Usage: 141

Context Readings

God's Judgment And The Law

23 You who take pride in the law, are you doing wrong to the honour of God by behaviour which is against the law? 24 For the name of God is shamed among the Gentiles because of you, as it is said in the holy Writings. 25 It is true that circumcision is of use if you keep the law, but if you go against the law it is as if you had it not.



Cross References

Isaiah 52:5

Now then, what have I here? says the Lord, for my people are taken away without cause; they are made waste and give cries of sorrow, says the Lord, and all the day the nations put shame on my name.

2 Samuel 12:14

But still, because you have had no respect for the Lord, death will certainly overtake the child who has newly come to birth.

Lamentations 2:15-16

All who go by make a noise with their hands at you; they make hisses, shaking their heads at the daughter of Jerusalem, and saying, Is this the town which was the crown of everything beautiful, the joy of all the earth?

Ezekiel 36:20-23

And when they came among the nations, wherever they went, they made my holy name unclean, when it was said of them, These are the people of the Lord who have gone out from his land.

1 Timothy 5:14

So it is my desire that the younger widows may be married and have children, controlling their families, and giving the Evil One no chance to say anything against them,

Matthew 18:7

A curse is on the earth because of trouble! for it is necessary for trouble to come; but unhappy is that man through whom the trouble comes.

1 Timothy 6:1

Let all who are servants under the yoke give all honour to their masters, so that no evil may be said against the name of God and his teaching.

Titus 2:5

To be wise in mind, clean in heart, kind; working in their houses, living under the authority of their husbands; so that no evil may be said of the word of God.

Titus 2:8

Saying true and right words, against which no protest may be made, so that he who is not on our side may be put to shame, unable to say any evil of us.

2 Peter 2:2

And a great number will go with them in their evil ways, through whom the true way will have a bad name.

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