Nehemiah 6:13

English Standard Version 2016

For this purpose he was hired, that I should be afraid and act in this way and sin, and so they could give me a bad name in order to taunt me.

Cross References

Jeremiah 20:10

For I hear many whispering. Terror is on every side! “Denounce him! Let us denounce him!” say all my close friends, watching for my fall. “Perhaps he will be deceived; then we can overcome him and take our revenge on him.”

James 4:17

So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.

2 Timothy 1:7

for God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.

Jeremiah 18:18

Then they said, “Come, let us make plots against Jeremiah, for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not pay attention to any of his words.”

Proverbs 29:5

A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.

Nehemiah 6:6

In it was written, “It is reported among the nations, and Geshem also says it, that you and the Jews intend to rebel; that is why you are building the wall. And according to these reports you wish to become their king.

Revelation 21:8

But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

Titus 2:8

and sound speech that cannot be condemned, so that an opponent may be put to shame, having nothing evil to say about us.

1 Timothy 5:14

So I would have younger widows marry, bear children, manage their households, and give the adversary no occasion for slander.

2 Corinthians 11:12

And what I am doing I will continue to do, in order to undermine the claim of those who would like to claim that in their boasted mission they work on the same terms as we do.

Acts 6:13

and they set up false witnesses who said, “This man never ceases to speak words against this holy place and the law,

Matthew 26:59

Now the chief priests and the whole council were seeking false testimony against Jesus that they might put him to death,

Matthew 22:15

Then the Pharisees went and plotted how to entangle him in his words.

Matthew 10:28

And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.

Ezekiel 2:6

And you, son of man, be not afraid of them, nor be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns are with you and you sit on scorpions. Be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, for they are a rebellious house.

Jeremiah 1:17

But you, dress yourself for work; arise, and say to them everything that I command you. Do not be dismayed by them, lest I dismay you before them.

Isaiah 57:11

Whom did you dread and fear, so that you lied, and did not remember me, did not lay it to heart? Have I not held my peace, even for a long time, and you do not fear me?

Isaiah 51:7

“Listen to me, you who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; fear not the reproach of man, nor be dismayed at their revilings.

Ecclesiastes 7:1

A good name is better than precious ointment, and the day of death than the day of birth.

Proverbs 22:1

A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches, and favor is better than silver or gold.

Nehemiah 6:12

And I understood and saw that God had not sent him, but he had pronounced the prophecy against me because Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.