Nehemiah 5:9

God's Word

I added, “What you’re doing is wrong. Shouldn’t you live in the fear of our God to keep our enemies from ridiculing us?

Cross References

Leviticus 25:36

Don’t collect interest or make any profit from him. Fear your God by respecting other Israelites’ lives.

1 Peter 2:12

Live decent lives among unbelievers. Then, although they ridicule you as if you were doing wrong while they are watching you do good things, they will praise God on the day he comes to help you.

2 Samuel 12:14

But since you have shown total contempt for the Lord by this affair, the son that is born to you must die.”

Titus 2:5

to use good judgment, and to be morally pure. Also, tell them to teach young women to be homemakers, to be kind, and to place themselves under their husbands’ authority. Then no one can speak evil of God’s word.

1 Timothy 5:14

So I want younger widows to marry, have children, manage their homes, and not give the enemy any chance to ridicule them.

Romans 2:24

As Scripture says, “God’s name is cursed among the nations because of you.”

Acts 9:31

Then the church throughout Judea, Galilee, and Samaria had peace. The number of people increased as people lived in the fear of the Lord and the comfort of the Holy Spirit.

Ezekiel 36:20

But wherever they went among the nations, they dishonored my holy name. People said about them, ‘These are the Lord’s people, yet they had to leave his land.’

Proverbs 24:23

These also are the sayings of wise people: Showing partiality as a judge is not good.

Proverbs 19:2

A person without knowledge is no good. A person in a hurry makes mistakes.

Proverbs 18:5

It is not good to be partial toward a wicked person, thereby depriving an innocent person of justice.

Proverbs 17:26

To punish an innocent person is not good. To strike down noble people is not right.

Proverbs 16:29

A violent person misleads his neighbor and leads him on a path that is not good.

Nehemiah 5:15

Those who were governors before me had made life difficult for the people by taking from them food and wine plus one pound of silver. Even the governors’ servants took advantage of their power over the people. But I didn’t do that, because I feared God.

Nehemiah 4:4

⌞Nehemiah prayed,⌟ “Our God, hear us. We are despised. Turn their insults back on them, and let them be robbed in the land where they are prisoners.

1 Samuel 2:24

Sons, the report that I hear the people of the Lord spreading isn’t good!

Genesis 42:18

On the third day Joseph said to them, “Do this, and you will live. I, too, fear God.

Genesis 20:11

Abraham said, “I thought that because there are no God-fearing people in this place, I’d be killed because of my wife.

Nehemiah 5:10

My brothers, my servants, and I are lending money and grain to the poor. But we must stop charging them interest.

Psalm 90:11

Who fully understands the power of your anger? A person fears you more when he better understands your fury.