Nehemiah 5:9

New American Bible - revised edition

I continued: “What you are doing is not good. Should you not conduct yourselves out of fear of our God rather than fear of the reproach of our Gentile enemies?

Cross References

Genesis 20:11

Abraham answered, “I thought there would be no fear of God in this place, and so they would kill me on account of my wife.

Genesis 42:18

On the third day Joseph said to them: “Do this, and you shall live; for I am a God-fearing man.

2 Samuel 12:14

but since you have utterly spurned the Lord by this deed, the child born to you will surely die.”

Nehemiah 4:4

Meanwhile the Judahites were saying: “Slackened is the bearers’ strength, there is no end to the rubbish; Never will we be able to rebuild the wall.”

Nehemiah 5:10

I myself, my kindred, and my attendants have lent the people money and grain without charge. Let us put an end to this usury!

Nehemiah 5:15

The earlier governors, my predecessors, had laid a heavy burden on the people, taking from them each day forty silver shekels for their food; then, too, their attendants oppressed the people. But I, because I feared God, did not do this.

Psalm 90:11

Who comprehends the strength of your anger? Your wrath matches the fear it inspires.

Proverbs 16:29

The violent deceive their neighbors, and lead them into a way that is not good.

Proverbs 17:26

It is wrong to fine an innocent person, but beyond reason to scourge nobles.

Proverbs 18:5

It is not good to favor the guilty, nor to reject the claim of the just.

Proverbs 19:2

Desire without knowledge is not good; and whoever acts hastily, blunders.

Proverbs 24:23

These also are Words of the Wise: To show partiality in judgment is not good.

Ezekiel 36:20

But when they came to the nations, where they went, they desecrated my holy name, for people said of them: “These are the people of the Lord, yet they had to leave their land.”

Leviticus 25:36

Do not exact interest in advance or accrued interest, but out of fear of God let your kindred live with you.

Acts 9:31

The church throughout all Judea, Galilee, and Samaria was at peace. It was being built up and walked in the fear of the Lord, and with the consolation of the holy Spirit it grew in numbers. Peter Heals Aeneas at Lydda.

Romans 2:24

For, as it is written, “Because of you the name of God is reviled among the Gentiles.”

1 Timothy 5:14

So I would like younger widows to marry, have children, and manage a home, so as to give the adversary no pretext for maligning us.

Titus 2:5

to be self-controlled, chaste, good homemakers, under the control of their husbands, so that the word of God may not be discredited.

1 Peter 2:12

Maintain good conduct among the Gentiles, so that if they speak of you as evildoers, they may observe your good works and glorify God on the day of visitation. Christian Citizens.

1 Samuel 2:24

Stop this, my sons! The report that I hear the Lord’s people spreading is not good.