⁹ Also I said, The thing that you do is not good: ought you not to walk in the fear of our God, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies?

³⁶ Take no interest from him or profit, but fear your God; that your brother may live among you.

¹⁴ However, because by this deed you have given great occasion to Yahweh's enemies to blaspheme, the child also who is born to you shall surely die."

¹² having good behavior among the nations, so in that which they speak against you as evil-doers, they may by your good works, which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation.

⁵ to be sober-minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that God's word may not be blasphemed.

¹⁴ I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for reviling.

²⁴ For "the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you," just as it is written.

³¹ So the assemblies throughout all Judea and 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.

²⁰ When they came to the nations, where they went, they profaned my holy name; in that men said of them, These are the people of Yahweh, and are gone forth out of his land.

²³ These also are sayings of the wise. To show partiality in judgment is not good.

² It isn't good to have zeal without knowledge; Nor being hasty with one's feet and missing the way.

⁵ To be partial to the faces of the wicked is not good, Nor to deprive the innocent of justice.

²⁶ Also to punish the righteous is not good, Nor to flog officials for their integrity.

²⁹ A man of violence entices his neighbor, And leads him in a way that is not good.

¹⁵ But the former governors who were before me were chargeable to the people, and took of them bread and wine, besides forty shekels of silver; yes, even their servants bore rule over the people: but I didn't do so, because of the fear of God.

⁴ Hear, our God; for we are despised: and turn back their reproach on their own head, and give them up for a spoil in a land of captivity;

²⁴ No, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear: you make Yahweh's people to disobey.

¹⁸ Joseph said to them the third day, "Do this, and live, for I fear God.

¹¹ Abraham said, "Because I thought, 'Surely the fear of God is not in this place. They will kill me for my wife's sake.'

⁷ There was a strife between the herdsmen of Abram's cattle and the herdsmen of Lot's cattle: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite lived then in the land.

⁸ Abram said to Lot, "Please, let there be no strife between me and you, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen; for we are relatives.