22 The one who says not to commit adultery, do you commit adultery? The one who abhors idols, do you rob temples? 23 Who boast in the law, by the transgression of the law you dishonor God![a] 24 For just as it is written, “The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.”[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 2:23 Or “do you dishonor God?” (a number of translators and interpreters take this phrase as a final rhetorical question; the present translation regards it as a final summary statement to be taken ironically)
  2. Romans 2:24 A quotation from Isa 52:5