Romans 2:24 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

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

Romans 2:24 - Albert 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 rel...
Romans 2:24 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Now Paul accosts the Jew, reproving his pride of law, made void by disloyalty. Romans 2:17-20 . His pretensions (But if thou bearest the name of Jew, etc.), provoke the questions of Romans 2:21-...
Romans 2:24 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

blasphemed. Compare Acts 13:45 . among . Greek. en . App-104. it is written . Compare Ezekiel 36:20 ; Ezekiel 23:23 keep . practice, as in Romans 2:1 . breaker . Greek. parabates. A...
Romans 2:24 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

24. For the name of God, etc. I think this quotation is taken from Ezekiel 36:20 , rather than from Isaiah 52:5 ; for in Isaiah there are no reproofs given to the people, but that chapter...
Romans 2:24 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written. For the name of God is blasphemed, etc. - In Debarim rabba, sect. 2, fol. 251, it is said: - "The rulers destroy th...
Romans 2:24 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written. For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written - in your own Scriptures...
Romans 2:24 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Failure of the Jews In Romans 1 St. Paul showed that the Gentiles were under God's judgment on account of sin. Now he is about to turn to the Jews. He asserts first, that God's judgment will...
Romans 2:24 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Through you. — Because of you. As it is written. — From the LXX. version of Isaiah 52:5 . The sense of the original is that the name of God is dishonoured by the enslavement and oppression of...
Romans 2:24 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

He Requires Heart-Obedience Romans 2:21-29 The Jew relied upon the position given him by the privileges and rites of Judaism, although his religious life, as such, had shrunk within these outwa...
Romans 2:24 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

It is evident that the apostle here turned to the Jew, though he did not immediately name him. He charged the Jew with the sin of practicing the very evils he condemned in the Gentiles. He is at leas...
Romans 2:24 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God, (18) And knowest will, and approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law; (19) And...
Romans 2:24 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire 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...
Romans 2:24 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written. Ver. 24. For the name of God, &c. ] Heretics and hypocrites do still with Judas deliver up the Lord Christ...
Romans 2:24 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Thou therefore which teachest another And valuest thyself upon thy ability to do it, trusting therein for acceptance with God; teachest thou not thyself? He does not teach himself, who does not p...
Romans 2:24 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

The Case of the Cultured Greek But there is a class of Gentiles who are quite keen in seeing these evils in others, and unhesitatingly judging them for them, while never considering that the same...
Romans 2:24 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Pretensions of the Jews; The Depravity of the Jews. A. D. 58. 17 Behold, thou art cal...
Romans 2:24 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Through you; because of your and your forefathers sins. As it is written: the apostle doth not tell them where it was written; he supposeth they were not ignorant of it: see Isaiah 52:5 Ezeki...
Romans 2:24 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Special Case Of The Jew. Paul Is Answering The Question - ‘Does Not His Knowledge Of The Law And The Understanding That Goes With It, Along With The Fact That He Is Circumcised Into God's Covena...
Romans 2:24 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES Romans 2:18 .—κατηχούμενος, being orally instructed. Romans 2:21 .—This verse may be illustrated out of the Jewish writings, for they say, “He who teacheth others what he doth no...
Romans 2:24 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Romans 2 The Practical Outcome of Judaism. I. The first thing on which St. Paul lays anxious stress in this passage is this: The judgment of God according to men's works is just, inevitable, and...
Romans 2:24 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Romans 2:1 . Therefore thou art inexcusable, oh man, whether Roman or Jew, who judgest another, and doest the same thing thyself, though it may be in some other way. But as the judgment of God is...
Romans 2:24 - The Biblical Illustrator

Behold, thou art called a Jew. The Jews also without excuse Hitherto the apostle, in seeking to shut up the Jew unto the faith of Christ, has contented himself with an enunciation of the equita...
Romans 2:24 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Romans 2:1-45 ( b ) Those who judge others, not excepting the Jews. Here a new stage of the argument, in proof of the position propounded in Romans 1:18 , begins, and is conti...
Romans 2:24 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The guilt of the Jews:
Romans 2:24 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Timothy 5:14 ; 1 Timothy 6:1 ; 2 Samuel 12:14 ; Ezekiel 36:20-23 ; Isaiah 52:5 ; Lamentations 2:15 ; Lamentations 2:16 ; Matthew 18:7 ; Titus 2:5 ; Titus 2:8
Romans 2:24 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Isaiah 52:5

Romans 2:24 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Romans 2:24 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Romans 2:24 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Romans 2:24 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Romans 2:24 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Romans 2:24 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Romans 2:24 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Romans 2:24 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Romans 2:24 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Romans 2:24 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Romans 2:24 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Romans 2:24 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Romans 2:24 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Romans 2:24 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Romans 2:24 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Romans 2:24 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Romans 2:24 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Romans 2:24 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Romans 2:24 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Romans 2:24 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Romans 2:24 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Romans 2:24 - The Biblical Illustrator

Romans 2:24 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Romans 2:24 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Romans 2:24 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Romans 2:24 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes