Nehemiah 5:15

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But the former governors, the ones who had been before me, were a burden to the people, and they took from them bread and wine, and forty shekels of money each day. And their officials also oppressed the people. But I did not do so, out of fear of God.

Cross References

Genesis 20:11

Abraham responded: "I thought to myself, saying: Perhaps there is no fear of God in this place. And they will put me to death because of my wife.

Genesis 42:18

Then, on the third day, he brought them out of prison, and he said: "Do as I have said, and you will live. For I fear God.

Nehemiah 5:16

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 5:9

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?

Job 31:23

For I have always feared God, like waves flowing over me, whose weight I was unable to bear.

Psalm 112:1

Alleluia. Praise the Lord, children. Praise the name of the Lord.

Proverbs 16:6

By mercy and truth, iniquity is redeemed. And by the fear of the Lord, one turns away from evil.

Proverbs 29:12

A leader who freely listens to lying words has only impious servants.

Isaiah 50:10

Who is there among you who fears the Lord? Who hears the voice of his servant? Who has walked in darkness, and there is no light in him? Let him hope in the name of the Lord, and let him lean upon his God.

Jeremiah 32:9

And I bought the field, which is in Anathoth, from Hanamel, the son of my uncle. And I weighed out the money to him, seven small coins and ten pieces of silver.

Lamentations 5:8

Servants have become rulers over us. There was no one to redeem us from their hand.

Matthew 5:47

And if you greet only your brothers, what more have you done? Do not even the pagans behave this way?

2 Corinthians 11:9

And when I was with you and in need, I was burdensome to no one. For the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied whatever was lacking to me. And in all things, I have kept myself, and I will keep myself, from being burdensome to you.

2 Corinthians 12:13

For what is there that you have had which is less than the other churches, except that I myself did not burden you? Forgive me this injury.

1 Samuel 8:15

Moreover, he will take one tenth of your grain and of the results of your vineyards, so that he may give these to his eunuchs and servants.