Nehemiah 5:9 “So I continued, “What you are doing is not right. Shouldn’t you walk i…”

Nehemiah 5:9

So I continued, “What you are doing is not right. Shouldn’t you walk in the fear of our God to avoid the reproach of our foreign enemies?

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Also I said, It is not good that ye do: ought ye not to walk in the fear of our God because of the reproach of the heathen our enemies?

World English Bible

Also I said, “The thing that you do is not good. Shouldn’t you walk in the fear of our God because of the reproach of the nations, our enemies?

American Standard Version

Also I said, The thing that ye do is not good: ought ye not to walk in the fear of our God, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies?

Geneva Bible 1599

I said also, That which ye do, is not good. Ought ye not to walke in the feare of our God, for the reproche of the heathen our enemies?

Darby Translation

And I said, The thing that ye do is not good. Ought ye not to walk in the fear of our God, so as not to be the reproach of the nations our enemies?

Young's Literal Translation

And I say, 'Not good [is] the thing that ye are doing; in the fear of our God do ye not walk, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies?

Bible in Basic English

And I said, What you are doing is not good: is it not the more necessary for you to go in the fear of our God, because of the shame which the nations may put on us?

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Cross references

“It is not”

Proverbs 18:5 1 Samuel 2:24 Proverbs 16:29 Proverbs 17:26 Proverbs 19:2 Proverbs 24:23

Proverbs 18:5 · BSB

Showing partiality to the wicked is not good, nor is depriving the innocent of justice.

1 Samuel 2:24 · BSB

No, my sons; it is not a good report I hear circulating among the LORD’s people.

Proverbs 16:29 · BSB

A violent man entices his neighbor and leads him down a path that is not good.

Proverbs 17:26 · BSB

It is surely not good to punish the innocent or to flog a noble for his honesty.

Proverbs 19:2 · BSB

Even zeal is no good without knowledge, and he who hurries his footsteps misses the mark.

Proverbs 24:23 · BSB

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

“walk”

Leviticus 25:36 Nehemiah 5:15 Genesis 20:11 Genesis 42:18 Acts 9:31

Leviticus 25:36 · BSB

Do not take any interest or profit from him, but fear your God, that your countryman may live among you.

Nehemiah 5:15 · BSB

The governors before me had heavily burdened the people, taking from them bread and wine plus forty shekels of silver. Their servants also oppressed the people. But I did not do this, because of my fear of God.

Genesis 20:11 · BSB

Abraham replied, “I thought to myself, ‘Surely there is no fear of God in this place. They will kill me on account of my wife.’

Genesis 42:18 · BSB

and on the third day he said to them, “I fear God. So do this and you will live:

Acts 9:31 · BSB

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.

“reproach”

2 Samuel 12:14 Romans 2:24 1 Peter 2:12 Titus 2:5 1 Timothy 5:14 Ezekiel 36:20

2 Samuel 12:14 · BSB

Nevertheless, because by this deed you have shown utter contempt for the word of the LORD, the son born to you will surely die.”

Romans 2:24 · BSB

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

1 Peter 2:12 · BSB

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.

Titus 2:5 · BSB

to be self-controlled, pure, managers of their households, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, so that the word of God will not be discredited.

1 Timothy 5:14 · BSB

So I advise the younger widows to marry, have children, and manage their households, denying the adversary occasion for slander.

Ezekiel 36:20 · BSB

And wherever they went among the nations, they profaned My holy name, because it was said of them, ‘These are the people of the LORD, yet they had to leave His land.’

Also

Nehemiah 4:4

Nehemiah 4:4 · BSB

Hear us, O God, for we are despised. Turn their scorn back upon their own heads, and let them be taken as plunder to a land of captivity.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

8and said, “We have done our best to buy back our Jewish brothers who were sold to foreigners, but now you are selling your own brothers, that they may be sold back to us!” But they remained silent, for they could find nothing to say.

10I, as well as my brothers and my servants, have been lending the people money and grain. Please, let us stop this usury.

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