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

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24 As it is written: “God’s name is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.”[a](A)

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 2:24 Isaiah 52:5 (see Septuagint); Ezek. 36:20,22

To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.

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to be self-controlled(A) and pure, to be busy at home,(B) to be kind, and to be subject to their husbands,(C) so that no one will malign the word of God.(D)

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10 Not purloining, but shewing all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things.

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10 and not to steal from them, but to show that they can be fully trusted, so that in every way they will make the teaching about God our Savior(A) attractive.(B)

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