Nehemiah 5:9

WEB

⁹Also 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?

KJV

⁹Also 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?

BSB

⁹So 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?

FBV

⁹“What you're doing isn't right,” I told them. “Don't you think you should respect our God so that enemy nations don't criticize us?

Extra References

Leviticus 25:36

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

2 Samuel 12:14

¹⁴However, because by this deed you have given great occasion to the LORD’s enemies to blaspheme, the child also who is born to you will surely die.”

1 Peter 2:12

¹²having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may see your good works and glorify God in the day of visitation.

Proverbs 18:5

⁵To be partial to the faces of the wicked is not good, nor to deprive the innocent of justice.

Romans 2:24

²⁴For “the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you,”just as it is written.

Titus 2:5

⁵to be sober minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that God’s word may not be blasphemed.

Genesis 20:11

¹¹Abraham said, “Because I thought, ‘Surely the fear of God is not in this place. They will kill me for my wife’s sake.’

1 Samuel 2:24

²⁴No, my sons; for it is not a good report that I hear! You make the LORD’s people disobey.

1 Timothy 5:14

¹⁴I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for insulting.

Proverbs 17:26

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