Nehemiah 5:16 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹⁶ Yea, also I continued in the work of this wall, neither bought we any land: and all my servants were gathered thither unto the work.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ Yea, also I continued in the work of this wall, neither bought we any land: and all my servants were gathered thither unto the work.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ I also held fast to the work on this wall; and we bought no land. And all my servants were gathered there for the work.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ Yea, also I continued in the work of this wall, neither bought we any land: and all my servants were gathered thither unto the work.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ Instead, I devoted myself to the work on this wall. We acquired no land, and all my servants were gathered there for the work.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ In fact, I preferred to build in the work of the wall, and I bought no land, and all my servants were gathered to do the work.

Nehemiah 5:16 Cross References

Galatians 6:9

And let us not be weary in well-doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.

1 Corinthians 15:58

Wherefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not vain in the Lord.

Romans 2:7

to them that by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honour and incorruption, eternal life:

Luke 8:15

And that in the good ground, these are such as in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it fast, and bring forth fruit with patience.

Numbers 16:15

And Moses was very wroth, and said unto the LORD, Respect not thou their offering: I have not taken one ass from them, neither have I hurt one of them.

Nehemiah 5:15

But the former governors that were before me were chargeable unto the people, and took of them bread and wine, beside forty shekels of silver; yea, even their servants bare rule over the people: but so did not I, because of the fear of God.

Nehemiah 5:17

Moreover there were at my table of the Jews and the rulers an hundred and fifty men, beside those that came unto us from among the heathen that were round about us.