Nehemiah 5:9

New King James Version

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

Cross References

Genesis 20:11

And Abraham said, “Because I thought, surely the fear of God is not in this place; and they will kill me on account of my wife.

Genesis 42:18

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

2 Samuel 12:14

However, because by this deed you have given great occasion to the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme, the child also who is born to you shall surely die.”

Nehemiah 4:4

Hear, O our God, for we are despised; turn their reproach on their own heads, and give them as plunder to a land of captivity!

Nehemiah 5:10

I also, with my brethren and my servants, am lending them money and grain. Please, let us stop this usury!

Nehemiah 5:15

But the former governors who were before me laid burdens on the people, and took from them bread and wine, besides forty shekels of silver. Yes, even their servants bore rule over the people, but I did not do so, because of the fear of God.

Psalm 90:11

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

Proverbs 16:29

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

Proverbs 17:26

Also, to punish the righteous is not good, Nor to strike princes for their uprightness.

Proverbs 18:5

It is not good to show partiality to the wicked, Or to overthrow the righteous in judgment.

Proverbs 19:2

Also it is not good for a soul to be without knowledge, And he sins who hastens with his feet.

Proverbs 24:23

These things also belong to the wise: It is not good to show partiality in judgment.

Ezekiel 36:20

When they came to the nations, wherever they went, they profaned My holy name—when they said of them, ‘These are the people of the Lord, and yet they have gone out of His land.’

Leviticus 25:36

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

Acts 9:31

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

Romans 2:24

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

1 Timothy 5:14

Therefore I desire that the younger widows marry, bear children, manage the house, give no opportunity to the adversary to speak reproachfully.

Titus 2:5

to be discreet, chaste, homemakers, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be blasphemed.

1 Peter 2:12

having your conduct honorable among the Gentiles, that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may, by your good works which they observe, glorify God in the day of visitation.

1 Samuel 2:24

No, my sons! For it is not a good report that I hear. You make the Lord’s people transgress.