Nehemiah 5:9

Nehemiah Deals With Strife

⁸ And I said unto them, We after our ability have redeemed our brethren, the Jews who had been sold unto the Gentiles; and will ye even sell your brethren? And shall they be sold unto us? Then they remained silent, for they had nothing to answer. ⁹ Again I said, “The thing which you are doing is not good; should you not walk in the fear of our God because of the reproach of the nations, our enemies? ¹⁰ I, likewise, and my brethren and my servants, have lent them money and grain; let us now release them from this burden.

Fear of God

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Leviticus 25:36

Take thou no usury of him, or increase; but thou shalt have the fear of thy God, and thy brother shall live with thee.

2 Samuel 12:14

However, because by this deed, thou hast given great occasion to the enemies of the LORD to blaspheme; the son that is born unto thee shall surely die.

Genesis 13:7-8

And there was a strife between the pastors of Abram's cattle and the pastors of Lot's cattle; and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelt then 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 slay me for my wife's sake.

Genesis 42:18

And Joseph said unto them the third day, Do this and live, for I fear God.

1 Samuel 2:24

No, my sons, for it is no good report that I hear that ye cause the people of the LORD to transgress.

Nehemiah 4:4

Hear, O our God; for we are despised; and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey in the land of their captivity.

Nehemiah 5:15

But the former captains that had been before me had charged the people and had taken of them for bread and wine, upon forty shekels of silver; and in addition to this their servants bore rule over the people; but I did not do so because of the fear of God.

Proverbs 16:29

The evil man flatters his neighbour and leads him into the way that is not good.

Proverbs 17:26

It is certainly not good to condemn the just, nor to smite princes for doing that which is upright.

Proverbs 18:5

To respect the person of the wicked so that the righteous loses that which is rightfully his is not good.

Proverbs 19:2

That the soul be without wisdom is not good, and he that hastens with his feet sins.

Proverbs 24:23

These things also belong to the wise. It is not good to have respect of persons in judgment.

Ezekiel 36:20

And when they entered unto the Gentiles, where they went, they profaned my holy name, when they said to them, These are the people of the LORD and are gone forth out of his land.

Acts 9:31

Then the congregations had rest throughout all Judaea and Galilee and Samaria and were edified, walking in the fear of the Lord, and with the comfort of the Holy Spirit they were multiplied.

Romans 2:24

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

1 Timothy 5:14

I desire therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, govern the house, giving no occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.

Titus 2:5

to be temperate, chaste, good housekeepers, subject to their own husbands, that the word of God not be blasphemed.

1 Peter 2:12

and have your honest conversation among the Gentiles, so that, in that which they murmur about you as of evildoers, having witnessed your good works, they may glorify God in the day of visitation.