So 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?
Do not take any interest or profit from him, but fear your God, that your countryman may live among you.
As it is written: “God’s name is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.”
Conduct yourselves with such honor among the Gentiles that, though they slander you as evildoers, they may see your good
Nevertheless, because by this deed you have shown utter contempt for the word of the LORD, the son born to you will sure
Showing partiality to the wicked is not good, nor is depriving the innocent of justice.
to be self-controlled, pure, managers of their households, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, so that the word
A violent man entices his neighbor and leads him down a path that is not good.
and on the third day he said to them, “I fear God. So do this and you will live:
So I advise the younger widows to marry, have children, and manage their households, denying the adversary occasion for
Even zeal is no good without knowledge, and he who hurries his footsteps misses the mark.
Then the church throughout Judea, Galilee, and Samaria experienced a time of peace. It grew in strength and numbers, liv
And there was discord between the herdsmen of Abram and the herdsmen of Lot. At that time the Canaanites and the Perizzi
These also are sayings of the wise: To show partiality in judgment is not good.
No, my sons; it is not a good report I hear circulating among the LORD’s people.
The governors before me had heavily burdened the people, taking from them bread and wine plus forty shekels of silver. T
Hear us, O God, for we are despised. Turn their scorn back upon their own heads, and let them be taken as plunder to a l
Abraham replied, “I thought to myself, ‘Surely there is no fear of God in this place. They will kill me on account of my
It is surely not good to punish the innocent or to flog a noble for his honesty.
And wherever they went among the nations, they profaned My holy name, because it was said of them, ‘These are the people