Parallel Verses

Modern King James verseion

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

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.

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 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 boast in Law, do you dishonor God through breaking the Law? 24 For the name of God is blasphemed among the nations because of you, as it is written. 25 For circumcision truly profits if you keep the Law, but if you are a transgressor of the Law, circumcision becomes uncircumcision.

Cross References

Isaiah 52:5

Now therefore, what have I here, says Jehovah, that My people are taken away for nothing? Those who rule make them howl, says Jehovah; and without ceasing My name is blasphemed every day.

2 Samuel 12:14

Only, because by this deed you have given great occasion to the enemies of Jehovah to blaspheme, this child born to you shall surely die.

Lamentations 2:15-16

All who pass by clap their hands at you; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city which they called the perfection of beauty, the joy of the whole earth?

Ezekiel 36:20-23

And when they entered the nations where they went, they even profaned My holy name by saying to them, These are the people of the Jehovah, and they are gone out of His land.

1 Timothy 5:14

Therefore I want the younger ones to marry, bear children, guide the house, giving no occasion to the adversary because of reproach.

Matthew 18:7

Woe to the world because of offenses! For it is necessary that offenses come; but woe to that man by whom the offense comes!

1 Timothy 6:1

Let as many slaves as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor, so that the name and doctrine of God may not be blasphemed.

Titus 2:5

to be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, subject to their own husbands, that the Word of God may not be blasphemed.

Titus 2:8

in sound speech that cannot be condemned, that he who is opposed may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you.

2 Peter 2:2

And many will follow their pernicious ways, and because of them the way of truth will be evil spoken of.

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