Nehemiah 6:19

New International Reader's Version

Tobiah’s friends kept reporting to me the good things he did. They also kept telling him what I said. And Tobiah himself sent letters to scare me.

Cross References

Nehemiah 6:13

They had hired him to scare me. They wanted me to commit a sin by doing what he said. That would give me a bad name in the community. People would find fault with me and my work.

Nehemiah 6:18

Many people in Judah had promised that they would be faithful to him. That’s because he was Shekaniah’s son-in-law. Shekaniah was the son of Arah. Tobiah’s son Jehohanan had married Meshullam’s daughter. Meshullam was the son of Berekiah.

Nehemiah 6:9

All of them were trying to frighten us. They thought, “Their hands will get too weak to do the work. So it won’t be completed.” But I prayed to God. I said, “Make my hands stronger.”

Nehemiah 7:1

The wall had been rebuilt. I had put up the gates at the main entrances to the city. The people who guarded the gates were appointed to their positions. So were the musicians and the Levites.

Proverbs 28:4

Those who turn away from instruction praise sinners. But those who learn from it oppose them.

John 15:19

If you belonged to the world, it would love you like one of its own. But you do not belong to the world. I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you.

John 7:7

The people of the world can’t hate you. But they hate me. This is because I am a witness that their works are evil.

1 John 4:5

False prophets belong to the world. So they speak from the world’s point of view. And the world listens to them.