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 will you even sell your brothers? Or shall they be sold to us? And they were silent and did not find an answer. ⁹ And I said, What you do is not good. Should you not walk in the fear of our God because of the reproach of the nations our enemies? ¹⁰ And also I, my brothers and my servants, might take from them silver and grain. Please let us leave this lending at interest.

Fear of God

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Leviticus 25:36

You shall take no interest from him, or increase. But you shall fear your God, so that your brother may live with you.

2 Samuel 12:14

Only, because by this deed you have given great occasion to the enemies of Jehovah to blaspheme, this child born to you shall surely die.

Genesis 13:7-8

And there was strife between the herdsmen of Abram's cattle and the herdsmen of Lot's cattle. And the Canaanite and the Perizzite lived 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 kill me for my wife's sake.

Genesis 42:18

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

1 Samuel 2:24

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

Nehemiah 4:4

Oh our God, hear, for we are despised. And turn their curse upon their own head, and give them for a prey in the land of captivity.

Nehemiah 5:15

But the former governors that had been before me were too heavy upon the people, and had taken bread and wine from them, besides forty shekels of silver. Yes, even their servants bore rule over the people. But I did not do this, because of the fear of God.

Proverbs 16:29

A violent man lures his neighbor and makes him go in a way not good.

Proverbs 17:26

And it is not good to punish the just, nor to strike princes for uprightness.

Proverbs 18:5

It is not good to favor the person of the wicked, nor to overthrow the righteous in judgment.

Proverbs 19:2

Also without knowledge the soul is not good, and he who hurries with his feet sins.

Proverbs 24:23

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

Ezekiel 36:20

And when they entered the nations where they went, they even profaned My holy name by saying to them, These are the people of the Jehovah, and they are gone out of His land.

Acts 9:31

Then, indeed, the churches had rest throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria, and having been built up. And having gone on in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, they were increased.

Romans 2:24

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

1 Timothy 5:14

Therefore I want the younger ones to marry, bear children, guide the house, giving no occasion to the adversary because of reproach.

Titus 2:5

to be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, subject to their own husbands, that the Word of God may not be blasphemed.

1 Peter 2:12

having your conduct honest among the nations, in that which they speak against you as evildoers, they may glorify God in a day of His visitation, seeing your good works.