Also I said, It is not good that ye do: ought ye not to walk in the fear of our God because of the reproach of the heathen our enemies?

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So I continued, “What you are doing is not right. Shouldn’t you walk in the fear of our God to avoid the reproach(A) of our Gentile enemies?

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36 Take thou no usury of him, or increase: but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee.

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36 Do not take interest(A) or any profit from them, but fear your God,(B) so that they may continue to live among you.

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12 Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.

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12 Live such good lives among the pagans that, though they accuse you of doing wrong, they may see your good deeds(A) and glorify God(B) on the day he visits us.

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14 Howbeit, because by this deed thou hast given great occasion to the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme, the child also that is born unto thee shall surely die.

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14 But because by doing this you have shown utter contempt for[a] the Lord,(A) the son born to you will die.”

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 12:14 An ancient Hebrew scribal tradition; Masoretic Text for the enemies of

To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.

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to be self-controlled(A) and pure, to be busy at home,(B) to be kind, and to be subject to their husbands,(C) so that no one will malign the word of God.(D)

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14 I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.

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14 So I counsel younger widows to marry,(A) to have children, to manage their homes and to give the enemy no opportunity for slander.(B)

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

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24 As it is written: “God’s name is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.”[a](A)

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 2:24 Isaiah 52:5 (see Septuagint); Ezek. 36:20,22

31 Then had the churches rest throughout all Judaea and Galilee and Samaria, and were edified; and walking in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Ghost, were multiplied.

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31 Then the church throughout Judea, Galilee and Samaria(A) enjoyed a time of peace and was strengthened. Living in the fear of the Lord and encouraged by the Holy Spirit, it increased in numbers.(B)

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20 And when they entered unto the heathen, whither they went, they profaned my holy name, when they said to them, These are the people of the Lord, and are gone forth out of his land.

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20 And wherever they went among the nations they profaned(A) my holy name, for it was said of them, ‘These are the Lord’s people, and yet they had to leave his land.’(B)

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23 These things also belong to the wise. It is not good to have respect of persons in judgment.

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Further Sayings of the Wise

23 These also are sayings of the wise:(A)

To show partiality(B) in judging is not good:(C)

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Also, that the soul be without knowledge, it is not good; and he that hasteth with his feet sinneth.

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Desire without knowledge is not good—
    how much more will hasty feet miss the way!(A)

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It is not good to accept the person of the wicked, to overthrow the righteous in judgment.

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It is not good to be partial to the wicked(A)
    and so deprive the innocent of justice.(B)

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26 Also to punish the just is not good, nor to strike princes for equity.

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26 If imposing a fine on the innocent is not good,(A)
    surely to flog honest officials is not right.

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