Nehemiah 5:9

Nehemiah Deals With Strife

⁸ I said to them, "We, after our ability, have redeemed our brothers the Jews that were sold to the nations; and would you even sell your brothers, and should they be sold to us?" Then they held their peace, and found never a word. ⁹ Also I said, "The thing that you do is not good. Ought you not to walk in the fear of our God, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies? ¹⁰ I likewise, my brothers and my servants, lend them money and grain. Please let us stop this usury.

Fear of God

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Leviticus 25:36

Take no interest from him or profit, but fear your God; that your brother may live among you.

2 Samuel 12:14

However, because by this deed you have given great occasion to the LORD's enemies to blaspheme, the child also who is born to you shall surely die."

Genesis 13:7-8

There was a strife between the herdsmen of Abram's livestock and the herdsmen of Lot's livestock: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite lived in the land at that time.

Genesis 20:11

Abraham said, "Because I thought, 'Surely the fear of God is not in this place. They will kill me for my wife's sake.'

Genesis 42:18

Joseph said to 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; you make the LORD's people disobey.

Nehemiah 4:4

"Hear, our God; for we are despised; and turn back their reproach on their own head, give them up for a spoil in a land of captivity;

Nehemiah 5:15

But the former governors who were before me were supported by the people, and took bread and wine from them, besides forty shekels of silver; yes, even their servants ruled over the people: but I did not do so, because of the fear of God.

Proverbs 16:29

A man of violence entices his neighbor, and leads him in a way that is not good.

Proverbs 17:26

Also to punish the righteous is not good, nor to flog officials for their integrity.

Proverbs 18:5

To be partial to the faces of the wicked is not good, nor to deprive the innocent of justice.

Proverbs 19:2

It isn't good to have zeal without knowledge; nor being hasty with one's feet and missing the way.

Proverbs 24:23

These also are sayings of the wise. To show partiality in judgment is not good.

Ezekiel 36:20

When they came to the nations, where they went, they profaned my holy name; in that men said of them, 'These are the people of the LORD, and are gone forth out of his land.'

Acts 9:31

So the church throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria had peace, and were built up. They were multiplied, walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit.

Romans 2:24

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

1 Timothy 5:14

I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for reviling.

Titus 2:5

to be sober minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that God's word may not be blasphemed.

1 Peter 2:12

having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation.