Nehemiah 5:9

Nehemiah Deals With Strife

⁸ I said to them: We have given whatever we were able to give, to make our brothers the Jews free. They were servants and prisoners of the nations. Would you now give up your brothers for a price? Are they to become our property? They said nothing. They answered not a word! ⁹ Again I said, “The thing which you are doing is not good; should you not walk in the fear of our God because of the reproach of the nations, our enemies? ¹⁰ Even I and my servants have been collecting interest (Usury) for the money and the grain we have let them have. So now, let us give this up.

Fear of God

Put on

Leviticus 25:36

Do not collect interest or make any profit from him. Respect your God by respecting other Israelites' lives.

2 Samuel 12:14

You have shown total contempt for Jehovah by this affair. Therefore the son that is born to you must die.

Genesis 13:7-8

Quarreling arose between Abram's herdsmen and the herdsmen of Lot. The Canaanites and Perizzites were also living in the land at that time.

Genesis 20:11

Abraham said: I thought that because there are no people who reverence God in this place, I would be killed because of my wife.

Genesis 42:18

On the third day, Joseph said: Do this and live, for I too respect God.

1 Samuel 2:24

No, my sons. It is not a good report that I hear. You make Jehovah's people transgress.

Nehemiah 4:4

Give ear, O our God, for we are ridiculed. Let their words of shame be turned back upon them, and let them be given up to plunder in a land where they are prisoners.

Nehemiah 5:15

Earlier rulers who came before me made the people responsible for their upkeep, and took from them bread and wine at the rate of forty shekels of silver. Even their servants were lords over the people. But I did not do so, out of reverence for God.

Proverbs 16:29

A violent man entices his neighbor and leads him in bad ways.

Proverbs 17:26

It is not good to punish the righteous. It is not good to strike princes because of their uprightness.

Proverbs 18:5

It is not good to accept the wicked, to overthrow the righteous in judgment.

Proverbs 19:2

It is not good to be a person without knowledge. He who hurries often misses the way.

Proverbs 24:23

These sayings belong to the wise. It is not good to show partiality in judgment.

Ezekiel 36:20

Wherever they went among the nations, they dishonored my holy name. People said about them: 'These are Jehovah's people, yet they had to leave his land.'

Acts 9:31

The congregations throughout all Judea, Galilee and Samaria, were built up. They walked in deep respect for Jehovah and were comforted by the Holy Spirit and continued to grow.

Romans 2:24

The name of God is blasphemed on your account among the nations, just as it is written. (Ezekiel 36:20, 21)

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 the word of God will not be (defamed) dishonored.

1 Peter 2:12

Maintain fine behavior among the nations. That way when they speak badly about you, they may see your good works and glorify God in the day of visitation (inspection).