So I said, “The thing that you are doing is not good. Ought you not to walk in the fear of our God to prevent the taunts of the nations our enemies?
Take no interest from him or profit, but fear your God, that your brother may live beside you.
Keep your conduct among the Gentiles honorable, so that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day of visitation.
Nevertheless, because by this deed you have utterly scorned the Lord, the child who is born to you shall die.”
to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.
So I would have younger widows marry, bear children, manage their households, and give the adversary no occasion for slander.
For, as it is written, “The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.”
So the church throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria had peace and was being built up. And walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, it multiplied.
But when they came to the nations, wherever they came, they profaned my holy name, in that people said of them, ‘These are the people of the Lord, and yet they had to go out of his land.’
These also are sayings of the wise. Partiality in judging is not good.
Desire without knowledge is not good, and whoever makes haste with his feet misses his way.
It is not good to be partial to the wicked or to deprive the righteous of justice.
To impose a fine on a righteous man is not good, nor to strike the noble for their uprightness.
A man of violence entices his neighbor and leads him in a way that is not good.
The former governors who were before me laid heavy burdens on the people and took from them for their daily ration forty shekels of silver. Even their servants lorded it over the people. But I did not do so, because of the fear of God.
Hear, O our God, for we are despised. Turn back their taunt on their own heads and give them up to be plundered in a land where they are captives.
No, my sons; it is no good report that I hear the people of the Lord spreading abroad.
On the third day Joseph said to them, “Do this and you will live, for I fear God:
Abraham said, “I did it because I thought, ‘There is no fear of God at all in this place, and they will kill me because of my wife.’
and there was strife between the herdsmen of Abram's livestock and the herdsmen of Lot's livestock. At that time the Canaanites and the Perizzites were dwelling in the land. Then Abram said to Lot, “Let there be no strife between you and me, and between your herdsmen and my herdsmen, for we are kinsmen.
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