Romans 2:24

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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  • Isa 52:5 : 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.
  • Ezek 36:20-23 : 20 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. 21 But I had pity for my holy name which the children of Israel had made unclean wherever they went. 22 For this cause say to the children of Israel, This is what the Lord has said: I am doing this, not because of you, O children of Israel, but because of my holy name, which you have made unclean among the nations wherever you went. 23 And I will make holy my great name which has been made unclean among the nations, which you have made unclean among them; and it will be clear to the nations that I am the Lord, says the Lord, when I make myself holy in you before their eyes.
  • Lam 2:15-16 : 15 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? 16 All your haters are opening their mouths wide against you; making hisses and whistling through their teeth, they say, We have made a meal of her: certainly this is the day we have been looking for; it has come, we have seen it.
  • 1 Tim 5:14 : 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,
  • Titus 2:8 : 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 Pet 2:2 : 2 And a great number will go with them in their evil ways, through whom the true way will have a bad name.
  • 2 Sam 12:14 : 14 But still, because you have had no respect for the Lord, death will certainly overtake the child who has newly come to birth.
  • 1 Tim 6:1 : 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 : 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.
  • Matt 18:7 : 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.

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    25It 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.

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    27And they, by their keeping of the law without circumcision, will be judges of you, by whom the law is broken though you have the letter of the law and circumcision.

    28The true Jew is not one who is only so publicly, and circumcision is not that which may be seen in the flesh:

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  • Gal 6:12-14
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    12Those who have the desire to seem important in the flesh, put force on you to undergo circumcision; only that they may not be attacked because of the cross of Christ.

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    11For this reason keep it in mind that in the past you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are looked on as being outside the circumcision by those who have circumcision, in the flesh, made by hands;

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    21And they have had news of you, how you have been teaching all the Jews among the Gentiles to give up the law of Moses, and not to give circumcision to their children, and not to keep the old rules.

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