“Now therefore, what do I do here,” says Yahweh, “seeing that my people are taken away for nothing? Those who rule over them mock,” says Yahweh, “and my name continually all the day is blasphemed.
⛓ Read Isaiah 52 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Quotation1
A formal citation — high verbal volume, often introduced by a saying-formula.
2:24 'the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you, just as it is written' is an explicit formula-citation of Isa 52:5 LXX, 'because of you my name is continually blasphemed among the nations' — Paul's clinching scriptural proof of the indictment.
High confidenceAllusion3
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
Slaves are to honor masters 'that the name of God and the doctrine not be blasphemed.' The motif of God's name being blasphemed among outsiders on account of his people echoes Isaiah 52:5 LXX, 'because of you my name is continually blasphemed among the nations,' which Paul cites explicitly at Romans 2:24. The conduct of the covenant community before observers determines whether God's name is honored or reviled.
High confidence'That God's word may not be blasphemed' (v.5; cf. the name not reviled) reworks Isaiah's lament that 'my name continually all the day is blasphemed' among the nations because of Israel. Paul transfers the prophetic concern about Gentiles reviling God's name to the conduct of believers in the household.
High confidence'Don't let your good be slandered/blasphemed' (mē blasphēmeisthō, 14:16) echoes the prophetic concern that God's name/people be 'blasphemed among the nations' (Isaiah 52:5 LXX), a verse Paul cites at Romans 2:24. The fear that the gospel-given 'good' becomes an occasion of blasphemy reuses this prophetic anxiety.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
"having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you" (2:12) inverts Isaiah 52:5 LXX, 'my name is continually blasphemed among the nations (ethnesin)' — where Israel's conduct caused God's name to be reviled, the church's good works among the nations cause it to be glorified.
Medium confidence