Nehemiah 6:13

For you didn’t receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”

So that with good courage we say, “The Lord is my helper. I will not fear. What can man do to me?”

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love.

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, I give to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth.”

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

I sought Yahweh, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears.

Then he answered and spoke to me, saying, “This is Yahweh’s word to Zerubbabel, saying, ‘Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit,’ says Yahweh of Armies.

He lays up sound wisdom for the upright. He is a shield to those who walk in integrity,

Behold, I give you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy. Nothing will in any way hurt you.

and might deliver all of them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

Behold, I send out the promise of my Father on you. But wait in the city of Jerusalem until you are clothed with power from on high.”

Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently,

and hope doesn’t disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

Let my heart be blameless toward your decrees, that I may not be disappointed.

Stephen, full of faith and power, performed great wonders and signs among the people.

My speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

who also declared to us your love in the Spirit.

Counsel and sound knowledge are mine. I have understanding and power.

But as for me, I am full of power by Yahweh’s Spirit, and of judgment, and of might, to declare to Jacob his disobedience, and to Israel his sin.

People went out to see what had happened. They came to Jesus and found the man from whom the demons had gone out, sitting at Jesus’ feet, clothed and in his right mind; and they were afraid.

But these things don’t count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Good News of the grace of God.

But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.

Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, ‘We see.’ Therefore your sin remains.

even Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.

Then Paul answered, “What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.”

But Saul increased more in strength, and confounded the Jews who lived at Damascus, proving that this is the Christ.

But he said, “I am not crazy, most excellent Festus, but boldly declare words of truth and reasonableness.

For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words, of him will the Son of Man be ashamed, when he comes in his glory, and the glory of the Father, and of the holy angels.

But when he came to himself he said, ‘How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough to spare, and I’m dying with hunger!

He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.

If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.

If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,

“Listen to me, you who follow after righteousness, you who seek Yahweh. Look to the rock you were cut from, and to the quarry you were dug from.

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

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. He who overcomes won’t be harmed by the second death.

But when Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammonite servant, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they ridiculed us, and despised us, and said, “What is this thing that you are doing? Will you rebel against the king?”

“But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” says Yahweh: “I will put my law in their inward parts, and I will write it in their heart. I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

The beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who worked the signs in his sight, with which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur.

Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.

These words, which I command you today, shall be on your heart;

For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side, while they conspire together against me, they plot to take away my life.

Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate bread with me, has lifted up his heel against me.

Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter. I didn’t know that they had devised plans against me, saying, “Let’s destroy the tree with its fruit, and let’s cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.”

He said to them, “Why are you fearful, O you of little faith?” Then he got up, rebuked the wind and the sea, and there was a great calm.

Everyone who comes to me, and hears my words, and does them, I will show you who he is like.

Punishing them often in all the synagogues, I tried to make them blaspheme. Being exceedingly enraged against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities.

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Now the Lord is the Spirit and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

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

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

Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid or scared of them; for Yahweh your God himself is who goes with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you.”

Therefore men revere him. He doesn’t regard any who are wise of heart.”

You have done these things, and I kept silent. You thought that I was just like you. I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your eyes.

The fear of man proves to be a snare, but whoever puts his trust in Yahweh is kept safe.

Your oils have a pleasing fragrance. Your name is oil poured out, therefore the virgins love you.

who cause a person to be indicted by a word, and lay a snare for the arbiter in the gate, and who deprive the innocent of justice with false testimony.

“I, even I, am he who comforts you. Who are you, that you are afraid of man who shall die, and of the son of man who will be made as grass?

Don’t be afraid because of them, for I am with you to rescue you,” says Yahweh.

I have made your forehead as a diamond, harder than flint. Don’t be afraid of them, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious house.”

The best of them is like a brier. The most upright is worse than a thorn hedge. The day of your watchmen, even your visitation, has come; now is the time of their confusion.

Therefore don’t be afraid of them, for there is nothing covered that will not be revealed; and hidden that will not be known.

These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

That servant, who knew his lord’s will, and didn’t prepare, nor do what he wanted, will be beaten with many stripes,

who, knowing the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also approve of those who practice them.

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

If others partake of this right over you, don’t we yet more? Nevertheless we didn’t use this right, but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the Good News of Christ.

whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.

who will pay the penalty: eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might,

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.

You therefore, my child, be strengthened in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.

They profess that they know God, but by their deeds they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.

Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another?

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.

For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.

in 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.

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

Then they said, “Come! Let’s devise plans against Jeremiah; for the law won’t perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let’s strike him with the tongue, and let’s not give heed to any of his words.”

For 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.”

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

Also they spoke of his good deeds before me, and reported my words to him. Tobiah sent letters to put me in fear.

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

A good name is more desirable than great riches, and loving favor is better than silver and gold.

A good name is better than fine perfume; and the day of death better than the day of one’s birth.

“Listen to me, you who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law. Don’t fear the reproach of men, and don’t be dismayed at their insults.

“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?

“You therefore put your belt on your waist, arise, and say to them all that I command you. Don’t be dismayed at them, lest I dismay you before them.

You, son of man, don’t be afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns are with you, and you dwell among scorpions. Don’t be afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious house.

Don’t be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. Rather, fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.

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

Now the chief priests, the elders, and the whole council sought false testimony against Jesus, that they might put him to death;

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

But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from those who desire an occasion, that in which they boast, they may be found even as we.

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

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

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.

But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

Dead flies cause the oil of the perfumer to produce an evil odor; so does a little folly outweigh wisdom and honor.