Nehemiah 5:9 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

⁹ Also I said, The thing that ye do is not good: ought ye not to walk in the fear of our God, because of the reproach of the heathen our enemies?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ Also I said, It is not good that ye do: ought ye not to walk in the fear of our God because of the reproach of the heathen our enemies?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ Also I said, What you are doing is not good. Should you not walk in the fear of our God to prevent the taunts and reproach of the nations, our enemies?

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ Also I said, The thing that ye do is not good: ought ye not to walk in the fear of our God, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies?

Common English Bible

⁹ So I continued, “What you are doing isn’t good! Why don’t you walk in the fear of our God? This will prevent the taunts of the nations that are our enemies!

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ And I said to them: "The thing that you are doing is not good. Why are you not walking in the fear of our God, so that there may be no reproach against us from our enemies, the Gentiles?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁹ And I said to them: The thing you do is not good. Why walk you not in the fear of our God, that we be not exposed to the reproaches of the Gentiles our enemies?

Nehemiah 5:9 Cross References

Genesis 20:11

And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the fear of God is not in this place; and they will slay me for my wife's sake.

Genesis 42:18

And Joseph said unto them the third day, This do, and live; for I fear God:

2 Samuel 12:14

Howbeit, because by this deed thou hast given great occasion to the enemies of the LORD to blaspheme, the child also that is born unto thee shall surely die.

Nehemiah 4:4

Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn back their reproach upon their own head, and give them up to spoiling in a land of captivity:

Nehemiah 5:10

And I likewise, my brethren and my servants, do lend them money and corn on usury. I pray you, let us leave off this usury.

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.

Psalm 90:11

Who knoweth the power of thine anger, And thy wrath according to the fear that is due unto thee?

Proverbs 16:29

A man of violence enticeth his neighbour, And leadeth him in a way that is not good.

Proverbs 17:26

Also to punish the righteous is not good, Nor to smite the noble for their uprightness.

Proverbs 18:5

To accept the person of the wicked is not good, Nor to turn aside the righteous in judgement.

Proverbs 19:2

Also, that the soul be without knowledge is not good; And he that hasteth with his feet sinneth.

Proverbs 24:23

These also are sayings of the wise To have respect of persons in judgement is not good.

Ezekiel 36:20

And when they came unto the nations, whither they went, they profaned my holy name; in that men said of them, These are the people of the LORD, and are gone forth out of his land.

Leviticus 25:36

Take thou no usury of him or increase; but fear thy God: that thy brother may live with thee.

Acts 9:31

So the church throughout all Judaea and Galilee and Samaria had peace, being edified; and, walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Ghost, was multiplied.

Romans 2:24

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

1 Timothy 5:14

I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, give none occasion to the adversary for reviling:

Titus 2:5

to be soberminded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed:

1 Peter 2:12

having your behaviour seemly among the Gentiles; that, wherein they speak against you as evil-doers, they may by your good works, which they behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.

1 Samuel 2:24

Nay, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear: ye make the LORD'S people to transgress.