Nehemiah 5:9

Nehemiah Deals With Strife

⁸ and said unto them, "We, after our ability, have bought our brethren the Jews, which were sold unto the Heathen. And will ye sell your brethren, whom we have bought unto us?" Then held they their peace, and could find nothing to answer. ⁹ Also I said, "It is not good, that ye do. Ought ye not to walk in the fear of God because of the rebuke of the Heathen our enemies? ¹⁰ I and my brethren, and my servants have lent them money and corn: but as for usury, let us leave it.

Fear of God

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Leviticus 25:36

And thou shalt take none usury of him, nor yet vantage. But shalt fear thy God, that thy brother may live with thee.

2 Samuel 12:14

Howbeit, because in doing this deed thou hast given the enemies of the LORD a cause to rail, the child that is born thee shall die surely."

Genesis 13:7-8

And there fell a strife between the herdsmen of Abram's cattle, and the herdsmen of Lot's cattle. Moreover, the Canaanites and the Perizzites dwelled at that time in the land.

Genesis 20:11

And Abraham answered, "I thought that peradventure the fear of God was not in this place, and that they should slay me for my wife's sake:

Genesis 42:18

And Joseph said unto the third day, "This do and live, for I fear God.

1 Samuel 2:24

Oh, nay my sons: For it is no good report that I hear how that ye make the LORD's people to trespass.

Nehemiah 4:4

Hear, O thou our God, how we are despised! Turn their shame upon their own head, that thou mayest give them over into despising in the land of their captivity.

Nehemiah 5:15

For the old captains that were before me, had been chargeable unto the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, and forty sicles of silver: yea and their servants had oppressed the people. But so did not I, and that because of the fear of God.

Proverbs 16:29

A wicked man beguileth his neighbour; and leadeth him the way that is not good.

Proverbs 17:26

To punish the innocent, and to smite the princes that give true judgment, are both evil.

Proverbs 18:5

It is not good to regard the person of the ungodly, or to put back the righteous in judgment.

Proverbs 19:2

Where no discretion is, there the soul is not well; and whoso is swift on foot, stumbleth hastily.

Proverbs 24:23

These are also the sayings of the wise. It is not good to have respect of any person in judgment.

Ezekiel 36:20

Now when they were gone unto the Heathen, and come in among them they dishonoured my holy name: so that it was said of them, 'Are these the people of God, and must go out of their own land?'

Acts 9:31

Then had the congregations rest, throughout all Jewry and Galilee and Samaria, and were edified, and walked in the fear of the Lord; And multiplied by the comfort of the holy ghost.

Romans 2:24

For the name of God is evil spoken-of among the gentiles, through you, as it is written.

1 Timothy 5:14

I will therefore that the younger women marry and bear children, and guide the house, and give none occasion to the adversary to speak evil.

Titus 2:5

to be of discreet, chaste, housewifely, good, and obedient unto their own husbands, that the word of God be not evil spoken of.

1 Peter 2:12

and see that ye have honest conversation among the gentiles, that they which backbite you as evil doers, may see your good works and praise God in the day of visitation.