Nehemiah 5:9

Revised Standard Version

So I said, “The thing that you are doing is not good. Ought you not to 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, There is no fear of God at all 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 that is born to you shall die.”

Nehemiah 4:4

Hear, O our God, for we are despised; turn back their taunt upon their own heads, and give them up to be plundered in a land where they are captives.

Nehemiah 5:10

Moreover I and my brethren and my servants are lending them money and grain. Let us leave off this interest.

Nehemiah 5:15

The former governors who were before me laid heavy burdens upon the people, and took from them food and wine, 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 thy anger, and thy wrath according to the fear of thee?

Proverbs 16:29

A man of violence entices his neighbor and leads him in a way that is not good.

Proverbs 17:26

To impose a fine on a righteous man is not good; to flog noble men is wrong.

Proverbs 18:5

It is not good to be partial to a wicked man, or to deprive a righteous man of justice.

Proverbs 19:2

It is not good for a man to be without knowledge, and he who makes haste with his feet misses his 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 men said of them, ‘These are the people of the Lord, and yet they had to go out of his land.’

Leviticus 25:36

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

Acts 9:31

So the church throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria had peace and was built up; and walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit it was multiplied.

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, rule their households, and give the enemy no occasion to revile us.

Titus 2:5

to be sensible, chaste, domestic, kind, and submissive to their husbands, that the word of God may not be discredited.

1 Peter 2:12

Maintain good conduct among the Gentiles, so that in case they speak against you as wrongdoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day of visitation.

1 Samuel 2:24

No, my sons; it is no good report that I hear the people of the Lord spreading abroad.