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Nehemiah 5:9

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

So I continued speaking. I said, “What you people are doing is not right! You know that you should fear and respect our God. You should not do the shameful things other people do!

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Don’t charge them any interest on money you might loan to them. Respect your God and let those from your own country live with you.

People who don’t believe are living all around you. They may say that you are doing wrong. So live such good lives that they will see the good you do, and they will give glory to God on the day he comes.

But you did things that made the Lord’s enemies lose their respect for him, so your new baby son will die.”

They will teach them to be wise and pure, to take care of their homes, to be kind, and to be willing to serve their husbands. Then no one will be able to criticize the teaching God gave us.

So I want the younger widows to marry, have children, and take care of their homes. If they do this, our enemy will not have any reason to criticize them.

As the Scriptures say, “People in other nations insult God because of you.”

The church in Judea, Galilee, and Samaria had a time of peace. And with the help of the Holy Spirit, these groups of believers became stronger in faith and showed their respect for the Lord by the way they lived. So the church everywhere grew in numbers.

But even in those other nations, they ruined my good name. How? Those nations said, ‘These are the Lord’s people, but they left his land.’

These are also words from the wise: A judge must be fair. He must not support some people simply because he knows them.

Being excited about something is not enough. You must also know what you are doing. Don’t rush into something, or you might do it wrong.

You must be fair in judging others. It is wrong to favor the guilty and rob the innocent of justice.

It is wrong to punish an innocent person or attack leaders for doing what is right.

Cruel people trick their neighbors and make them do wrong.

But the governors who ruled before me made life hard for the people. The governors forced everyone to pay 1 pound of silver. They also made the people give them food and wine. The leaders under these governors also ruled over the people and made life even harder. But I respected and feared God, so I didn’t do things like that.

Nehemiah prayed and said, “Our God, listen to our prayer. These men hate us. Sanballat and Tobiah are insulting us. Make bad things happen to them. Make them ashamed, like people taken away as prisoners.

Sons, stop that! The Lord’s people are saying bad things about you.

After three days Joseph said to them, “I am a God-fearing man. Do this, and I will let you live.

Then Abraham said, “I thought no one in this place respected God. I thought someone would kill me to get Sarah.

My men, my brothers, and I are also lending money and grain to the people. But let’s stop forcing them to pay interest on these loans.

No one really knows the full power of your anger, but our fear and respect for you is as great as your anger.




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