Nehemiah 5:9

Nehemiah Deals With Strife

⁸ And I said to them, According to our ability we have redeemed our brothers the Jews, who were sold to the nations, and would ye even sell your brothers, and should they be sold to us? Then they were silent, and found not a word. ⁹ Also I said, The thing that ye do is not good. Ought ye not to walk in the fear of our God, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies? ¹⁰ And I likewise, my brothers and my servants, lend them money and grain. I pray you, let us leave off this usury.

Fear of God

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Leviticus 25:36

Take thou no interest from him or increase, but fear thy God, that thy brother may live with thee.

2 Samuel 12:14

However, because by this deed thou have given great occasion to the enemies of LORD to blaspheme, the child also that is born to thee shall surely die.

Genesis 13:7-8

And there was a strife between the herdsmen of Abram's cattle and the herdsmen of Lot's cattle. And the Canaanite and the Perizzite then dwelt in the land.

Genesis 20:11

And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the fear of God is not in this place, and they will kill me because of my wife.

Genesis 42:18

And Joseph said to them the third day, This do, and live, for I fear God:

1 Samuel 2:24

No, my sons, for it is no good report that I hear. Ye make LORD's people to transgress.

Nehemiah 4:4

Hear, O our God, for we are despised, and turn back their reproach upon their own head, and give them up for a spoil in a land of captivity,

Nehemiah 5:15

But the former governors who were before me charged the people, and took bread and wine from them, besides forty shekels of silver. Yes, even their servants bore rule over the people. But I did not so, because of the fear of God.

Proverbs 16:29

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

Proverbs 17:26

Also to punish a righteous man is not good, [nor] to smite nobles for uprightness.

Proverbs 18:5

To respect the person of a wicked man is not good, [nor] to turn aside a righteous man in judgment.

Proverbs 19:2

Also, that the soul be without knowledge is not good. And he who hastens with his feet sins.

Proverbs 24:23

These also are from the wise: To have respect of persons in judgment is not good.

Ezekiel 36:20

And when they came to the nations where they went, they profaned my holy name, in that men said of them, These are the people of LORD, and have gone forth out of his land.

Acts 9:31

Indeed therefore the congregations throughout the whole of Judea and Galilee and Samaria had peace, being edified. And, going in the fear of the Lord and in the encouragement of the Holy Spirit, they were multiplied.

Romans 2:24

For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you, just as it is written.

1 Timothy 5:14

I desire therefore the younger women to marry, to bear children, to manage house, to give not one occasion to him who opposes on account of slander.

Titus 2:5

to be serious-minded, pure, homemakers, good, submissive to their own husbands, so that the word of God may not be blasphemed.

1 Peter 2:12

Having your behavior good among the Gentiles, so that, upon which they speak against you as evil-doers, they may glorify God in the day of visitation, from having observed your good works.