Verse 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?

Referenced Verses

  • Lev 25:36 : 36 Do not take interest or profit from him, but you must fear your God and your brother must live with you.
  • 2 Sam 12:14 : 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.”
  • Neh 4:4 : 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!
  • Neh 5:15 : 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.
  • Prov 16:29 : 29 A violent person entices his neighbor, and then leads him down a path that is terrible.
  • Prov 17:26 : 26 It is terrible to punish a righteous person, and to flog honorable men is wrong.
  • Prov 18:5 : 5 It is terrible to show partiality to the wicked, by depriving a righteous man of justice.
  • Prov 19:2 : 2 It is dangerous to have zeal without knowledge, and the one who acts hastily makes poor choices.
  • Prov 24:23 : 23 Further Sayings of the Wise These sayings also are from the wise: To show partiality in judgment is terrible:
  • Ezek 36:20 : 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 : 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.
  • Rom 2:24 : 24 For just as it is written,“the name of God is being blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.”
  • 1 Tim 5:14 : 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 : 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 Pet 2:12 : 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.
  • 1 Sam 2:24 : 24 No, my sons! For the report that I hear circulating among the LORD’s people is not good.
  • Gen 13:7-8 : 7 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.) 8 Abram said to Lot,“Let there be no quarreling between me and you, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen, for we are close relatives.
  • Gen 20:11 : 11 Abraham replied,“Because I thought,‘Surely no one fears God in this place. They will kill me because of my wife.’
  • Gen 42:18 : 18 On the third day Joseph said to them,“Do as I say and you will live, for I fear God.