Nehemiah 5:9

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Nehemiah 5:9

Then I said, “What you are doing isn’t right. Shouldn’t you walk in the fear of our God and not invite the reproach of our foreign enemies?

Leviticus 25:36

Do not profit or take interest from him, but fear your God and let your brother live among you.

2 Samuel 12:14

However, because you treated the Lord with such contempt in this matter, the son born to you will die.”

Genesis 13:7-8

and there was quarreling between the herdsmen of Abram’s livestock and the herdsmen of Lot’s livestock. At that time the Canaanites and the Perizzites were living in the land.

Genesis 20:11

Abraham replied, “I thought, ‘There is absolutely no fear of God in this place. They will kill me because of my wife.’

Genesis 42:18

On the third day Joseph said to them, “I fear God—do this and you will live.

1 Samuel 2:24

No, my sons, the report I hear from the Lord’s people is not good.

Nehemiah 4:4

Listen, our God, for we are despised. Make their insults return on their own heads and let them be taken as plunder to a land of captivity.

The governors who preceded me had heavily burdened the people, taking food and wine from them, as well as a pound of silver. Their subordinates also oppressed the people, but I didn’t do this, because of the fear of God.

Proverbs 16:29

A violent man lures his neighbor,
leading him in a way that is not good.

Proverbs 17:26

It is certainly not good to fine an innocent person
or to beat a noble for his honesty.

Proverbs 18:5

It is not good to show partiality to the guilty
by perverting the justice due the innocent.

Proverbs 19:2

Even zeal is not good without knowledge,
and the one who acts hastily sins.

Proverbs 24:23

These sayings also belong to the wise:

It is not good to show partiality in judgment.

Ezekiel 36:20

When they came to the nations where they went, they profaned My holy name, because it was said about them, ‘These are the people of Yahweh, yet they had to leave His land in exile.’

Acts 9:31

So the church throughout all Judea, Galilee, and Samaria had peace, being built up and walking in the fear of the Lord and in the encouragement of the Holy Spirit, and 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

Therefore, I want younger women to marry, have children, manage their households, and give the adversary no opportunity to accuse us.

Titus 2:5

to be self-controlled, pure, homemakers, kind, and submissive to their husbands, so that God’s message will not be slandered.

1 Peter 2:12

Conduct yourselves honorably among the Gentiles, so that in a case where they speak against you as those who do what is evil, they will, by observing your good works, glorify God on the day of visitation.

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Summary

Nehemiah 5:9

Also I said, It is not good that ye do: ought ye not to walk in the fear of our God because of the reproach of the heathen our enemies?

It is not

Walk

Acts 9:31

Bible References

It is not

No, my sons, the report I hear from the Lord’s people is not good.

A violent man lures his neighbor,
leading him in a way that is not good.

It is certainly not good to fine an innocent person
or to beat a noble for his honesty.

It is not good to show partiality to the guilty
by perverting the justice due the innocent.

Even zeal is not good without knowledge,
and the one who acts hastily sins.

These sayings also belong to the wise:

It is not good to show partiality in judgment.

Walk

Abraham replied, “I thought, ‘There is absolutely no fear of God in this place. They will kill me because of my wife.’

On the third day Joseph said to them, “I fear God—do this and you will live.

Do not profit or take interest from him, but fear your God and let your brother live among you.

So the church throughout all Judea, Galilee, and Samaria had peace, being built up and walking in the fear of the Lord and in the encouragement of the Holy Spirit, and it increased in numbers.