Nehemiah 5:9

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

So I said, “The thing that you are doing is not good. Should you not walk in the fear of our God, to prevent the taunts of the nations our enemies?

Cross References

Genesis 20:11

Abraham said, “I did it because I thought, Surely there is no fear of God in this place, and they will kill me because of my wife.

Genesis 42:18

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

2 Samuel 12:14

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

Nehemiah 4:4

Hear, O our God, for we are despised; turn their taunt back on their own heads, and give them over as plunder in a land of captivity.

Nehemiah 5:10

Moreover I and my brothers and my servants are lending them money and grain. Let us stop this taking of interest.

Nehemiah 5:15

The former governors who were before me laid heavy burdens on the people and took food and wine from them, besides forty shekels of silver. Even their servants lorded it over the people. But I did not do so because of the fear of God.

Psalm 90:11

Who considers the power of your anger? Your wrath is as great as the fear that is due you.

Proverbs 16:29

The violent entice their neighbors and lead them in a way that is not good.

Proverbs 17:26

To impose a fine on the innocent is not right or to flog the noble for their integrity.

Proverbs 18:5

It is not right to be partial to the guilty or to subvert the innocent in judgment.

Proverbs 19:2

Desire without knowledge is not good, and one who moves too hurriedly misses the way.

Proverbs 24:23

These also are sayings of the wise: Partiality in judging is not good.

Ezekiel 36:20

But when they came to the nations, wherever they came, they profaned my holy name, in that it was said of them, “These are the people of the Lord, yet they had to go out of his land.”

Leviticus 25:36

Do not take interest in advance or otherwise make a profit from them, but fear your God; let them live with you.

Acts 9:31

Meanwhile the church throughout Judea, Galilee, and Samaria had peace and was built up. Living in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, it increased in numbers.

Romans 2:24

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

1 Timothy 5:14

So I would have younger widows marry, bear children, and manage their households, so as to give the adversary no occasion to revile us.

Titus 2:5

to be self-controlled, chaste, good managers of the household, kind, submissive to their husbands, so that the word of God may not be discredited.

1 Peter 2:12

Conduct yourselves honorably among the gentiles, so that, though they malign you as evildoers, they may see your honorable deeds and glorify God when he comes to judge.

1 Samuel 2:24

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