Nehemiah 5:9

Nehemiah Deals With Strife

⁸ and I said to them: "We ourselves have bought back our brothers the Jews who were sold to the nations as we were able. But now you yourselves have sold your brothers so they may be sold to us!" They were silent and could not find a word [to say]. ⁹ So I said, "The thing that you are doing is not good. Should you not walk in the fear of our God [to prevent] the disgrace from the nations, our enemies? ¹⁰ Also, I and my brothers and my servants are lending them money and grain. Please stop [taking] this interest.

Fear of God

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Leviticus 25:36

You must not take interest or usury from him, but you shall revere your God, and your countryman shall live with you.

2 Samuel 12:14

But because you have {utterly scorned} Yahweh in this matter, the son born for you {will certainly die}."

Genesis 13:7-8

And there was a quarrel between the herdsmen of the livestock of Abram and the herdsmen of the livestock of Lot. Now at that time the Canaanites and the Perizzites were living in the land.

Genesis 20:11

And Abraham said, "Because I thought, surely there is no fear of God in this place; they will kill me on account of the matter of my wife.

Genesis 42:18

On the third day Joseph said to them, "Do this and you will live; I fear God.

1 Samuel 2:24

No, my sons, the report [is] not good that I am hearing the people of Yahweh spreading.

Nehemiah 4:4

Hear, our God, for we are despised. Turn their scorn on their head and give them over to plunder in the land of captivity.

Nehemiah 5:15

The former governors who were before me laid burdens on the people, and they took food and wine from them, besides forty shekels. Also, their servants controlled the people, but I did not do so because of the fear of God.

Proverbs 16:29

A person of violence will entice his neighbor and cause him to walk on a way [that is] not good.

Proverbs 17:26

Also, imposing a fine on the righteous is not good, [nor] to flog nobles for uprightness.

Proverbs 18:5

Being partial [to] faces of evil [is] not good, [nor] to subvert the righteous at the judgment.

Proverbs 19:2

Also, a life without knowledge is not good, and he who moves quickly with [his] feet {misses the mark}.

Proverbs 24:23

These [sayings] are also for the wise: {Partiality} in judgment is not good.

Ezekiel 36:20

And they came into the nations {to which they went}, and they profaned {my holy name} when they said to them, 'These [are] the people of Yahweh, and from his land they went out.'

Acts 9:31

Then the church throughout all of Judea and Galilee and Samaria had peace, being strengthened. And living in the fear of the Lord and the encouragement of the Holy Spirit, it was increasing [in numbers].

Romans 2:24

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

1 Timothy 5:14

Therefore I want younger [widows] to marry, to bear children, to manage a household, to give the adversary no opportunity for reproach.

Titus 2:5

[to be] self-controlled, pure, busy at home, good, being subject to their own husbands, in order that the word of God may not be slandered.

1 Peter 2:12

maintaining your good conduct among the Gentiles, so that in [the things] in which they slander you as evildoers, by seeing your good deeds they may glorify God on the day of visitation.