Nehemiah 5:9

Even so, let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

having a good conscience. Thus, while you are spoken against as evildoers, they may be disappointed who curse your good way of life in Christ.

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

“Now therefore, what do I do here,” says Yahweh, “seeing that my people are taken away for nothing? Those who rule over them mock,” says Yahweh, “and my name is blasphemed continually all day long.

Having regard for honorable things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report: if there is any virtue and if there is any praise, think about these things.

For this is the will of God, that by well-doing you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:

Every offering of your meal offering you shall season with salt. You shall not allow the salt of the covenant of your God to be lacking from your meal offering. With all your offerings you shall offer salt.

All the wave offerings of the holy things which the children of Israel offer to Yahweh, I have given you and your sons and your daughters with you, as a portion forever. It is a covenant of salt forever before Yahweh to you and to your offspring with you.”

“How long will you judge unjustly, and show partiality to the wicked?”

Blessed is everyone who fears Yahweh, who walks in his ways.

So the assemblies were strengthened in the faith, and increased in number daily.

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

Only let your way of life be worthy of the Good News of Christ, that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the Good News;

that you may walk properly toward those who are outside, and may have need of nothing.

that they may train the young wives to love their husbands, to love their children,

My brothers, don’t hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory with partiality.

To the woman he said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. You will bear children in pain. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”

It will happen, when the Egyptians see you, that they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ They will kill me, but they will save you alive.

The men of the place asked him about his wife. He said, “She is my sister,” for he was afraid to say, “My wife”, lest, he thought, “the men of the place might kill me for Rebekah, because she is beautiful to look at.”

No one is greater in this house than I am, and he has not kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?”

“If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be to him as a creditor. You shall not charge him interest.

“ ‘You shall do no injustice in judgment. You shall not be partial to the poor, nor show favoritism to the great; but you shall judge your neighbor in righteousness.

You shall not rule over him with harshness, but shall fear your God.

You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great alike. You shall not be afraid of the face of man, for the judgment is God’s. The case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.”

Then I consulted with myself, and contended with the nobles and the rulers, and said to them, “You exact usury, everyone of his brother.” I held a great assembly against them.

Pay back to our neighbors seven times into their bosom their reproach with which they have reproached you, Lord.

My son, if sinners entice you, don’t consent.

He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the righteous, both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.

The plans of the diligent surely lead to profit; and everyone who is hasty surely rushes to poverty.

He who increases his wealth by excessive interest gathers it for one who has pity on the poor.

To show partiality is not good; yet a man will do wrong for a piece of bread.

Then the presidents and the local governors sought to find occasion against Daniel as touching the kingdom; but they could find no occasion or fault, because he was faithful. There wasn’t any error or fault found in him.

Saul was consenting to his death. A great persecution arose against the assembly which was in Jerusalem in that day. They were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except for the apostles.

Let’s walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy.

But if they don’t have self-control, let them marry. For it’s better to marry than to burn.

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but only what is good for building others up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.

that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without defect in the middle of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,

Let no man despise your youth; but be an example to those who believe, in word, in your way of life, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity.

Let as many as are bondservants under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor, that the name of God and the doctrine not be blasphemed.

but just as he who called you is holy, you yourselves also be holy in all of your behavior;

Many will follow their immoral ways, and as a result, the way of the truth will be maligned.

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

She is loud and defiant. Her feet don’t stay in her house.

Do you see a man who is hasty in his words? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

“Don’t consider what this people has spoken, saying, ‘Has Yahweh cast off the two families which he chose?’ Thus they despise my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.”

“Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

and will dash you and your children within you to the ground. They will not leave in you one stone on another, because you didn’t know the time of your visitation.”

But we desire to hear from you what you think. For, as concerning this sect, it is known to us that everywhere it is spoken against.”

Repay no one evil for evil. Respect what is honorable in the sight of all men.

for God’s Kingdom is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

for kings and all who are in high places, that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and reverence.

But refuse younger widows, for when they have grown wanton against Christ, they desire to marry,

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled; but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

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

Ought you not to know that Yahweh, the God of Israel, gave the kingdom over Israel to David forever, even to him and to his sons by a covenant of salt?

“If I have walked with falsehood, and my foot has hurried to deceit

He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a quick temper displays folly.

By mercy and truth iniquity is atoned for. By the fear of Yahweh men depart from evil.

Don’t be hasty in bringing charges to court. What will you do in the end when your neighbor shames you?

When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off. The women will come and set them on fire, for they are a people of no understanding. Therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them, and he who formed them will show them no favor.

Therefore the Lord Yahweh says, “Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious cornerstone of a sure foundation. He who believes shall not act hastily.

who has withdrawn his hand from the poor, who hasn’t received interest or increase, has executed my ordinances, has walked in my statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father. He shall surely live.

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you may be no priest to me. Because you have forgotten your God’s law, I will also forget your children.

subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of Christ.

and soundness of speech that can’t be condemned, that he who opposes you may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say about us.

There was strife between the herdsmen of Abram’s livestock and the herdsmen of Lot’s livestock. The Canaanites and the Perizzites lived in the land at that time.

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

Joseph said to them the third day, “Do this, and live, for I fear God.

Moreover you shall provide out of all the people able men which fear God: men of truth, hating unjust gain; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.

You shall not wrong one another, but you shall fear your God; for I am Yahweh your God.

how he met you by the way, and struck the rearmost of you, all who were feeble behind you, when you were faint and weary; and he didn’t fear God.

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

David spoke to the men who stood by him, saying, “What shall be done to the man who kills this Philistine, and takes away the reproach from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?”

“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.

But the former governors who were before me were supported by the people, and took bread and wine from them, plus forty shekels of silver; yes, even their servants ruled over the people; but I didn’t do so, because of the fear of God.

All who pass by the way rob him. He has become a reproach to his neighbors.

A man of violence entices his neighbor, and leads him in a way that is not good.

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

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

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

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

When they came to the nations where they went, they profaned my holy name; in that men said of them, ‘These are Yahweh’s people, and have left his land.’

So the assemblies throughout all Judea, Galilee, and Samaria had peace, and were built up. They were multiplied, walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit.

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

Servants, obey in all things those who are your masters according to the flesh, not just when they are looking, as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God.

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

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

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