Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For the name of God is evil spoken-of among the gentiles, through you, as it is written.
New American Standard Bible
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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.
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.
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.
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.
Themes
Blasphemy » Who blasphemies the name of the lord
Evangelism » What preachers should not do
Evil » Influences » Evil influences emanate from the unGodly
Inconsistency » General marks of » Brings reproach upon the cause of truth
Influence » Evil influences emanate from the unGodly
evil Influences » Evil influences emanate from the unGodly
Reproach » Inconsistency in religious life brings reproach upon the cause of truth
Topics
Interlinear
Dia
References
Word Count of 37 Translations in Romans 2:24
Verse Info
Context Readings
God's Judgment And The Law
23 Thou abhorrest images: and robbest God of his honour. Thou rejoicest in the law: and through breaking the law dishonourest God. 24 For the name of God is evil spoken-of among the gentiles, through you, as it is written. 25 Circumcision verily availeth if thou keep the law: But if thou break the law thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.
Names
Cross References
Isaiah 52:5
And now what profit is it to me, sayeth the LORD? That my people is freely carried away, and brought into heaviness by their rulers, and my name ever still blasphemed, sayeth the LORD?
2 Samuel 12:14
Howbeit, because in doing this deed thou hast given the enemies of the LORD a cause to rail, the child that is born thee shall die surely."
Lamentations 2:15-16
{Samekh} All they that go by thee clap their hands at thee - hissing and wagging their heads upon the daughter Jerusalem - and say, "Is this the city that men call so fair, wherein the whole land rejoiceth?"
Ezekiel 36:20-23
Now when they were gone unto the Heathen, and come in among them they dishonoured my holy name: so that it was said of them, 'Are these the people of God, and must go out of their own land?'
1 Timothy 5:14
I will therefore that the younger women marry and bear children, and guide the house, and give none occasion to the adversary to speak evil.
Matthew 18:7
Woe be unto the world because of evil offenses! Howbeit, it cannot be avoided but that offenses shall be given. Nevertheless, woe be to the man, by whom the offense cometh.
1 Timothy 6:1
Let as many servants as are under the yoke count their masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God, and his doctrine be not evil spoken of.
Titus 2:5
to be of discreet, chaste, housewifely, good, and obedient unto their own husbands, that the word of God be not evil spoken of.
Titus 2:8
and with the wholesome word which cannot be rebuked, that he which withstandeth may be ashamed, having no thing in you that he may dispraise.
2 Peter 2:2
And many shall follow their damnable ways, by which the way of truth shall be evil spoken of;