Nehemiah 5:9 Cross References - Bishops

⁹ And [Nehemia] saide, It is not good that ye do: Ought ye not to walke in the feare of our God, because of the rebuke of the heathen that are our enemies

⁷ And there fell a stryfe betwene the heardmen of Abrams cattell, and the heardmen of Lottes cattell: Moreouer, the Chanaanites, and Pherisites dwelled at that tyme in the lande ⁸ Then sayde Abram vnto Lot: let there be no strife I pray thee betweene thee and me, and betweene my heardmen and thyne, for we be brethren

¹¹ Abraha aunswered: For I thought [thus] surely the feare of God is not in this place, and they shal slaye me for my wyues sake

¹⁸ And Ioseph said vnto them the thirde day: this do & liue, [for] I feare God

³⁶ And thou shalt take none vsurie of hym, or vantage: but thou shalt feare thy God, that thy brother may lyue with thee

²⁴ Oh, nay my sonnes: For it is no good report that I heare, how that ye make the Lordes people to trespasse

¹⁴ Howbeit, because in doing this deede thou hast geuen ye enemies of the Lord a cause to blaspheme, the childe that is borne vnto thee shall surely dye

⁴ Heare O thou our God, for we are despised, turne their shame vpon their owne head, & geue them ouer into despising in the lande of their captiuitie

¹⁵ For the olde captaynes that were before me, had ben chargeable vnto the people, and had taken of them bread & wine, beside fouretie sicles of siluer, yea and their seruauntes had oppressed the people: But so did not I, and that because of the feare of God

²⁹ A wicked man beguyleth his neyghbour, and leadeth hym into the way that is not good

²⁶ Certaynely to condempne the iust is not good: nor to strike the gouernours whiche iudge rightly

⁵ It is not good to regarde the person of the vngodly, to ouerthrowe the righteous in iudgement

² The desire without discretion is not good: but [as] a man whiche hasteth with his feete offendeth

²³ It is not good to haue respect of any person in iudgement

²⁰ And when they entred vnto the heathen whyther they went, they polluted my holy name, when they saide of them, These are the people of God, & are gone out of his lande

³¹ Then had the Churches rest throughout all Iurie, and Galilee, and Samaria, and were edified, and walked in the feare of the Lorde, & multiplied by the comfort of the holy ghost

²⁴ For the name of God is euyll spoken of among the Gentiles, through you: As it is written

¹⁴ I wyll therefore that the yonger women do marrie, to beare chyldren, to guyde the house, to geue none occasion to ye aduersarie to speake slaunderously

⁵ (To be) discrete, chaste, house kepers, good, obedient vnto their owne husbandes, that the worde of God be not blasphemed

¹² And see that ye haue honest conuersation among the gentiles: that where as they backbite you as euyll doers, they may by your good workes whiche they shall see, prayse God in the day of visitation