Nehemiah 6:19

New English Translation

They were telling me about his good deeds and then taking back to him the things I said. Tobiah, on the other hand, sent letters in order to scare me.

Cross References

Nehemiah 6:13

He had been hired to scare me so that I would do this and thereby sin. They would thus bring reproach on me and I would be discredited.

Nehemiah 6:18

For many in Judah had sworn allegiance to him, because he was the son-in-law of Shecaniah son of Arah. His son Jonathan had married the daughter of Meshullam son of Berechiah.

Nehemiah 6:9

All of them were wanting to scare us, supposing, “Their hands will grow slack from the work, and it won’t get done.” So now, strengthen my hands!

Nehemiah 7:1

When the wall had been rebuilt and I had positioned the doors, and the gatekeepers, the singers, and the Levites had been appointed,

Proverbs 28:4

Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, but those who keep the law contend with them.

John 15:19

If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as its own. However, because you do not belong to the world, but I chose you out of the world, for this reason the world hates you.

John 7:7

The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I am testifying about it that its deeds are evil.

1 John 4:5

They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world’s perspective and the world listens to them.