Nehemiah 5:9

Modern English Version

Also I said, “What you are doing is not good! Should not you walk in the fear of our God because of the reproach of the nations, our enemies?

Cross References

Leviticus 25:36

Take no usury or interest from him; but fear your God, so that your brother may live with you.

1 Peter 2:12

Live your lives honorably among the Gentiles, so that though they speak against you as evildoers, they shall see your good works and thereby glorify God in the day of visitation.

2 Samuel 12:14

Nevertheless, because by this deed you have utterly scorned the Lord, the child who is born to you shall die.”

Titus 2:5

and to be self-controlled, pure, homemakers, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be dishonored.

1 Timothy 5:14

Therefore I desire that the younger women marry, bear children, manage the house, and give no occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.

Romans 2:24

As it is written, “The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.”

Acts 9:31

Then the churches throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria had peace and were built up. And walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, they were multiplied.

Ezekiel 36:20

When they entered the nations, where they went, they profaned My holy name, because they said of them, “These are the people of the Lord and have gone out of His land.”

Proverbs 24:23

These also are sayings of the wise: It is not good to show partiality in judgment.

Proverbs 19:2

It is not good for the soul to be without knowledge, and he misses the way who is hasty with his feet.

Proverbs 18:5

It is not good to favor the wicked, to subvert the righteous in judgment.

Proverbs 17:26

To punish the righteous is not good, nor to strike princes for their integrity.

Proverbs 16:29

A violent man entices his neighbor, and leads him in a way that is not good.

Nehemiah 5:15

The former governors preceding me had extracted a heavy burden on the people, because they took from them food and wine, besides forty shekels of silver. Moreover, even their servants domineered over the people. But I myself never did so, because of the fear of God.

Nehemiah 4:4

Hear, O our God, that we are despised. Turn their reproach back upon their own head, and give them as spoil in a land of captivity:

1 Samuel 2:24

No, my sons! Truly, it is not a good report that I hear the people of the Lord spreading.

Genesis 42:18

Joseph said to them the third day, “Do this and live, for I fear God.

Genesis 20:11

Abraham said, “Because I thought, surely there is no fear of God in this place, and they will slay me because of my wife.

Nehemiah 5:10

Moreover, I, my relatives, and my servants are loaning them money and grain. So, I urge you, cease from this practice of usury.

Psalm 90:11

Who knows the power of Your anger? For as the fear of You, so is Your wrath.