Nehemiah 5:9 Cross References - VIN

⁹ So I said, "What you're doing isn't right! Shouldn't you live in the fear of our God to avoid shame from our foreign enemies?

⁷ Quarreling arose between Abram's herdsmen and the herdsmen of Lot. The Canaanites and Perizzites were also living in the land at that time. ⁸ Abram said to Lot: "Let us not have any quarreling between you and me, or between your herdsmen and mine, for we are brothers.

¹¹ And Abraham will say, For I said, Surely there is not the fear of God in this place; and they will kill me because of my wife.

¹⁸ On the third day Joseph said to them, "Do this and you will live; I fear God.

³⁶ Take no interest from him or profit; but fear your God, that your brother may live among you.

²⁴ No my sons, it is no good report that I hear; you make the LORD's people disobey.

¹⁴ But because you have utterly scorned the LORD in this matter, the son born for you will certainly die."

⁴ “Hear, our God; for we are despised. Turn back their reproach on their own head. Give them up for a plunder in a land of captivity.

¹⁵ But the former governors that were before me laid burdens upon the people, and took of them for bread and wine above forty shekels of silver; yea, even their servants lorded over the people; but so did not I, because of the fear of God.

²⁹ A violent man entices his neighbor, and leads him into the way that is not good.

²⁶ Also to punish the righteous is not good, nor to flog officials for their integrity.

⁵ It is not good to be partial to the wicked, or to overthrow the righteous in judgment.

² It isn't good to have zeal without knowledge; nor being hasty with one's feet and missing the way.

²³ These also are sayings of the wise. To show partiality in judgment is not good.

²⁰ "Wherever they went among the nations, they dishonored my holy name. People said about them: 'These are the LORD's people, yet they had to leave his land.'

³¹ Then the church throughout Judea, Galilee, and Samaria experienced a time of peace. It grew in strength and numbers, living in the fear of the Lord and the encouragement of the Holy Spirit.

²⁴ As it is written: “God’s name is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.”

¹⁴ So I would have younger widows marry, bear children, manage their homes, and give the enemy no occasion for reproach.

⁵ to be chaste and holy, and to take good care of their households, and to be obedient to their husbands; so that no one may reproach the word of God.

¹² Conduct yourselves with such honor among the Gentiles that, though they slander you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day He visits us.