Nehemiah 5:9

A Conservative Version

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?

Cross References

Leviticus 25:36

Take thou no interest from him or increase, but fear thy God, that thy brother may live with thee.

1 Peter 2:12

Having your behavior good among the Gentiles, so that, upon which they speak against you as evil-doers, they may glorify God in the day of visitation, from having observed your good works.

2 Samuel 12:14

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

Titus 2:5

to be serious-minded, pure, homemakers, good, submissive to their own husbands, so that the word of God may not be blasphemed.

1 Timothy 5:14

I desire therefore the younger women to marry, to bear children, to manage house, to give not one occasion to him who opposes on account of slander.

Romans 2:24

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

Acts 9:31

Indeed therefore the congregations throughout the whole of Judea and Galilee and Samaria had peace, being edified. And, going in the fear of the Lord and in the encouragement of the Holy Spirit, they were multiplied.

Ezekiel 36:20

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

Proverbs 24:23

These also are from the wise: To have respect of persons in judgment is not good.

Proverbs 19:2

Also, that the soul be without knowledge is not good. And he who hastens with his feet sins.

Proverbs 18:5

To respect the person of a wicked man is not good, [nor] to turn aside a righteous man in judgment.

Proverbs 17:26

Also to punish a righteous man is not good, [nor] to smite nobles for uprightness.

Proverbs 16:29

A man of violence entices his neighbor, and leads him in a way that is not good.

Nehemiah 5:15

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.

Nehemiah 4:4

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

1 Samuel 2:24

No, my sons, for it is no good report that I hear. Ye make LORD's people to transgress.

Genesis 42:18

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

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.

Nehemiah 5:10

And I likewise, my brothers and my servants, lend them money and grain. I pray you, let us leave off this usury.

Psalm 90:11

Who knows the power of thine anger, and thy wrath according to the fear that is due to thee?