Nehemiah 6:13 - Catholic Public Domain Version

¹³ For he had accepted money, so that I would be afraid, and would sin, and so that they would have some evil with which to rebuke me.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹³ Therefore was he hired, that I should be afraid, and do so, and sin, and that they might have matter for an evil report, that they might reproach me.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹³ He was hired that I should be made afraid and do as he said and sin, that they might have matter for an evil report with which to taunt and reproach me.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹³ For this cause was he hired, that I should be afraid, and do so, and sin, and that they might have matter for an evil report, that they might reproach me.

Common English Bible

¹³ He was hired to frighten me and to make me sin by acting in this way. Then they could give me a bad name and discredit me.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹³ For he had taken money, that I being afraid should do this thing and sin; and they might have some evil to upbraid me withal.

Nehemiah 6:13 Marejeleo ya Msalaba

Nehemiah 6:12

And I understood that God had not sent him, but he had spoken to me as if he were prophesying, and that Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.

Nehemiah 6:6

"It has been heard among the Gentiles, and Geshem has said it, that you and the Jews are planning to rebel, and because of this, you are building the wall and thinking to raise yourself as a king over them. For this reason,

Proverbs 22:1

A good name is better than many riches. And good esteem is above silver and gold.

Proverbs 29:5

A man who speaks to his friend with flattering and feigned words spreads a net for his own feet.

Ecclesiastes 7:1

Why is it necessary for a man to seek things that are greater than himself, when he does not know what is advantageous for himself in his life, during the number of the days of his sojourn, and while time passes by like a shadow? Or who will be able to tell him what will be in the future after him under the sun?

Isaiah 51:7

Listen to me, you who know what is just, my people who have my law in their heart. Do not be afraid of disgrace among men, and do not dread their blasphemies.

Isaiah 57:11

For whose sake have you been anxiously afraid, so that you would lie and not be mindful of me, nor consider me in your heart? For I am silent, and I am like someone who does not see, and so you have forgotten me.

Jeremiah 1:17

Therefore, you should gird your waist, and rise up, and speak to them everything that I instruct you. You should not have dread before their face. For I will cause you to be unafraid of their countenance.

Jeremiah 18:18

And they said: "Come, and let us devise a plan against Jeremiah. For the law will not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor a sermon from the prophet. Come, and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us pay no attention to any of his words."

Jeremiah 20:10

For I heard the insults of many, and terror all around: 'Persecute him!' and, 'Let us persecute him!' from all the men who had been at peace with me and who had kept watch by my side. 'If only there were some way that he might be deceived, and we might prevail against him and obtain vengeance from him!'

Ezekiel 2:6

But as for you, son of man, you should not fear them, and you should not dread their words. For you are among unbelievers and subversives, and you are living with scorpions. You should not fear their words, and you should not dread their faces. For they are a provoking house.

Matthew 10:28

And do not be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. But instead fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Hell.

Matthew 22:15

Then the Pharisees, going out, took counsel as to how they might entrap him in speech.

Matthew 26:59

Then the leaders of the priests and the entire council sought false testimony against Jesus, so that they might deliver him to death.

Acts 6:13

And they set up false witnesses, who said: "This man does not cease to speak words against the holy place and the law.

2 Corinthians 11:12

But what I am doing, I will continue to do, so that I may take away an opportunity from those who desire an opportunity by which they may glory, so as to be considered to be like us.

1 Timothy 5:14

Therefore, I want the younger women to marry, to procreate children, to be mothers of families, to provide no ready opportunity for the adversary to speak evil.

2 Timothy 1:7

For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of virtue, and of love, and of self-restraint.

Titus 2:8

with sound words, irreproachably, so that he who is an opponent may dread that he has nothing evil to say about us.

James 4:17

Therefore, he who knows that he ought to do a good thing, and does not do it, for him it is a sin.

Revelation 21:8

But the fearful, and the unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and drug users, and idolaters, and all liars, these shall be a part of the pool burning with fire and sulphur, which is the second death."