Nehemiah 5:9

Nehemiah Deals With Strife

⁸ I said to them, "To the extent possible we have bought back our fellow Jews who had been sold to the Gentiles. But now you yourselves want to sell your own countrymen, so that we can then buy them back!" They were utterly silent, and could find nothing to say. ⁹ Then I said, "The thing that you are doing is wrong! Should you not conduct yourselves in the fear of our God in order to avoid the reproach of the Gentiles who are our enemies? ¹⁰ Even I and my relatives and my associates are lending them money and grain. But let us abandon this practice of seizing collateral!

Fear of God

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Leviticus 25:36

Do not take interest or profit from him, but you must fear your God and your brother must live with you.

2 Samuel 12:14

Nonetheless, because you have treated the Lord with such contempt in this matter, the son who has been born to you will certainly die."

Genesis 13:7-8

So there were quarrels between Abram's herdsmen and Lot's herdsmen. (Now the Canaanites and the Perizzites were living in the land at that time.)

Genesis 20:11

Abraham replied, "Because I thought, 'Surely no one fears God in this place. They will kill me because of my wife.'

Genesis 42:18

On the third day Joseph said to them, "Do as I say and you will live, for I fear God.

1 Samuel 2:24

This ought not to be, my sons! For the report that I hear circulating among the Lord's people is not good.

Nehemiah 4:4

Hear, O our God, for we are despised! Return their reproach on their own head! Reduce them to plunder in a land of exile!

Nehemiah 5:15

But the former governors who preceded me had burdened the people and had taken food and wine from them, in addition to forty shekels of silver. Their associates were also domineering over the people. But I did not behave in this way, due to my fear of God.

Proverbs 16:29

A violent person entices his neighbor, and leads him down a path that is terrible.

Proverbs 17:26

It is terrible to punish a righteous person, and to flog honorable men is wrong.

Proverbs 18:5

It is terrible to show partiality to the wicked, by depriving a righteous man of justice.

Proverbs 19:2

It is dangerous to have zeal without knowledge, and the one who acts hastily makes poor choices.

Proverbs 24:23

These sayings also are from the wise: To show partiality in judgment is terrible:

Ezekiel 36:20

But when they arrived in the nations where they went, they profaned my holy name. It was said of them, 'These are the people of the Lord, yet they have departed from his land.'

Acts 9:31

Then the church throughout Judea, Galilee, and Samaria experienced peace and thus was strengthened. Living in the fear of the Lord and in the encouragement of the Holy Spirit, the church increased in numbers.

Romans 2:24

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

1 Timothy 5:14

So I want younger women to marry, raise children, and manage a household, in order to give the adversary no opportunity to vilify us.

Titus 2:5

to be self-controlled, pure, fulfilling their duties at home, kind, being subject to their own husbands, so that the message of God may not be discredited.

1 Peter 2:12

and maintain good conduct among the non-Christians, so that though they now malign you as wrongdoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God when he appears.