Nehemiah 5:9

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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?

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.

2 Samuel 12:14

Yet truly, because you have given occasion to the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme, because of this word, the son who was born to you: dying he shall die."

Nehemiah 4:4

Listen, O our God, for we have become an object of contempt. Turn their reproach upon their own head, and grant that they may be despised in a land of captivity.

Nehemiah 5:10

Both I and my brothers, with my servants, have lent money and grain to many. Let us agree not to ask for its return. Let us forgive the other money that is owed to us.

Nehemiah 5:15

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.

Psalm 90:11

For he has given his Angels charge over you, so as to preserve you in all your ways.

Proverbs 16:29

A man of iniquity entices his friend, and he leads him along a way that is not good.

Proverbs 17:26

It is not good to inflict damage on the just, nor to strike the leader who judges uprightly.

Proverbs 18:5

It is not good to accept the character of the impious, so as to turn away from true judgment.

Proverbs 19:2

Where there is no knowledge of the soul, there is no good. And whoever hurries with his feet will stumble.

Proverbs 24:23

Likewise, these things are for the wise. It is not good to base judgment on knowledge of character.

Ezekiel 36:20

And when they walked among the Gentiles, to whom they had entered, they defiled my holy name, though it was being said about them: 'This is the people of the Lord,' and 'They went forth from his land.'

Leviticus 25:36

do not accept usury from him, nor anything more than what you gave. Fear your God, so that your brother may be able to live with you.

Acts 9:31

Certainly, the Church had peace throughout all of Judea and Galilee and Samaria, and it was being built up, while walking in the fear of the Lord, and it was being filled with the consolation of the Holy Spirit.

Romans 2:24

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

1 Timothy 5:14

Therefore, I want the younger women to marry, to procreate children, to be mothers of families, to provide no ready opportunity for the adversary to speak evil.

Titus 2:5

be sensible, chaste, restrained, have concern for the household, be kind, be subordinate to their husbands: so that the Word of God may be not blasphemed.

1 Peter 2:12

Keep your behavior among the Gentiles to what is good, so that, when they slander you as if you were evildoers, they may, by the good works that are seen in you, glorify God on the day of visitation.

1 Samuel 2:24

My sons, do not be willing. For it is no good report that I am hearing, so that you would cause the people of the Lord to transgress.