Nehemiah 6:13

¹⁰For I have heard the defaming of many: “Terror on every side! Denounce, and we will denounce him!” say all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall. “Perhaps he will be persuaded, and we will prevail against him, and we will take our revenge on him.”

⁷For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

¹²But what I do, that I will continue to do, that I may cut off opportunity from those who desire an opportunity, that in which they boast, they may be recognized just like us.

⁵A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.

⁶in which was written, “It is reported among the nations, and Gashmu says it, that you and the Jews intend to rebel. Because of that, you are building the wall. You would be their king, according to these words.

¹⁷To him therefore who knows to do good and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin.

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

¹³and set up false witnesses who said, “This man never stops speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the law.

¹¹“Whom have you dreaded and feared, so that you lie, and have not remembered me, nor laid it to your heart? Haven’t I held my peace for a long time, and you don’t fear me?

¹⁵Then the Pharisees went and took counsel how they might entrap him in his talk.