Nehemiah 5:15

A Conservative Version

But the former governors who were before me charged the people, and took bread and wine from them, besides forty shekels of silver. Yes, even their servants bore rule over the people. But I did not so, because of the fear of God.

Cross References

Nehemiah 5:9

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?

Isaiah 50:10

Who is among you that fears LORD, who obeys the voice of his servant? He who walks in darkness, and has no light, let him trust in the name of LORD, and rely upon his God.

Proverbs 16:6

By mercy and truth iniquity is atoned for, and by the fear of LORD men depart from evil.

2 Corinthians 11:9

And being present with you, and when needy, I was a burden to no man. For the brothers who came from Macedonia, they supplied my need. And in everything I kept, and I will keep myself non-burdensome to you.

Matthew 5:47

And if ye only greet your friends, what do ye extra? Do not even the tax collectors this way?

Job 31:23

For calamity from God is a terror to me, and I can do nothing because of his majesty.

2 Corinthians 12:13

For what is there which ye were inferior to the other congregations? Except that I myself was not burdensome to you? Forgive me this wrong.

Proverbs 29:12

If a ruler hearkens to falsehood, all his servants are wicked.

Psalm 147:11

LORD takes pleasure in those who fear him, in those who hope in his loving kindness.

Psalm 112:1

Praise ye LORD. Blessed is the man who fears LORD, who delights greatly in his commandments.

1 Samuel 8:15

And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.

Genesis 20:11

And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the fear of God is not in this place, and they will kill me because of my wife.

Genesis 42:18

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

Nehemiah 5:16

Yea, also I continued in the work of this wall, neither did we buy any land. And all my servants were gathered there to the work.

Jeremiah 32:9

And I bought the field that was in Anathoth of Hanamel my uncle's son, and weighed him the money, even seventeen shekels of silver.

Lamentations 5:8

Servants rule over us. There is none to deliver us out of their hand.