Nehemiah 5:9

Nehemiah Deals With Strife

⁸ and say to them, 'We have acquired our brethren the Jews, those sold to the nations, according to the ability that is in us, and ye also sell your brethren, and they have been sold to us!' and they are silent, and have not found a word. ⁹ And I say, 'Not good is the thing that ye are doing; in the fear of our God do ye not walk, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies? ¹⁰ And also, I, my brethren, and my servants, are exacting of them silver and corn; let us leave off, I pray you, this usury.

Fear of God

Put on

Leviticus 25:36

thou takest no usury from him, or increase; and thou hast been afraid of thy God; and thy brother hath lived with thee;

2 Samuel 12:14

only, because thou hast caused the enemies of Jehovah greatly to despise by this thing, also the son who is born to thee doth surely die.'

Genesis 13:7-8

and there is a strife between those feeding Abram's cattle and those feeding Lot's cattle; and the Canaanite and the Perizzite are then dwelling in the land.

Genesis 20:11

And Abraham saith, 'Because I said, 'Surely the fear of God is not in this place, and they have slain me for the sake of my wife;

Genesis 42:18

And Joseph saith unto them on the third day, 'This do and live; God I fear!

1 Samuel 2:24

Nay, my sons; for the report which I am hearing is not good causing the people of Jehovah to transgress. --

Nehemiah 4:4

Hear, O our God, for we have been despised; and turn back their reproach on their own head, and give them for a spoil in a land of captivity;

Nehemiah 5:15

the former governors who are before me have made themselves heavy on the people, and take of them in bread and wine, besides in silver forty shekels; also, their servants have ruled over the people -- and I have not done so, because of the fear of God.

Proverbs 16:29

A violent man enticeth his neighbour, And hath causeth him to go in a way not good.

Proverbs 17:26

Also, to fine the righteous is not good, To smite nobles for uprightness.

Proverbs 18:5

Acceptance of the face of the wicked is not good, To turn aside the righteous in judgment.

Proverbs 19:2

Also, without knowledge the soul is not good, And the hasty in feet is sinning.

Proverbs 24:23

These also are for the wise: -- To discern faces in judgment is not good.

Ezekiel 36:20

And one goeth in unto the nations whither they have gone, And they pollute My holy name by saying to them, The people of Jehovah are these, And from His land they have gone forth.

Acts 9:31

Then, indeed, the assemblies throughout all Judea, and Galilee, and Samaria, had peace, being built up, and, going on 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 because of you is evil spoken of among the nations, according as it hath been written.

1 Timothy 5:14

I wish, therefore, younger ones to marry, to bear children, to be mistress of the house, to give no occasion to the opposer to reviling;

Titus 2:5

sober, pure, keepers of their own houses, good, subject to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be evil spoken of.

1 Peter 2:12

having your behaviour among the nations right, that in that which they speak against you as evil-doers, of the good works having beheld, they may glorify God in a day of inspection.