Nehemiah 5:15
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15 But the earlier governors—those preceding me—placed a heavy burden on the people and took forty shekels[a] of silver from them in addition to food and wine. Their assistants also lorded it over the people. But out of reverence for God(A) I did not act like that.
Footnotes
- Nehemiah 5:15 That is, about 1 pound or about 460 grams
Nehemiah 5:9
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9 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?
Isaiah 50:10
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Proverbs 16:6
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2 Corinthians 11:9
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9 And when I was with you and needed something, I was not a burden to anyone, for the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied what I needed.(A) I have kept myself from being a burden to you(B) in any way, and will continue to do so.
Matthew 5:47
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47 And if you greet only your own people, what are you doing more than others? Do not even pagans do that?
Ecclesiastes 12:13-14
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Job 31:23
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2 Corinthians 12:13
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13 How were you inferior to the other churches, except that I was never a burden to you?(A) Forgive me this wrong!(B)
Proverbs 29:12
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Psalm 147:11
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Psalm 112:1
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Psalm 112[a]
Footnotes
- Psalm 112:1 This psalm is an acrostic poem, the lines of which begin with the successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet.
- Psalm 112:1 Hebrew Hallelu Yah
1 Samuel 8:15
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15 He will take a tenth(A) of your grain and of your vintage and give it to his officials and attendants.
1 Samuel 2:15-17
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15 But even before the fat was burned, the priest’s servant would come and say to the person who was sacrificing, “Give the priest some meat to roast; he won’t accept boiled meat from you, but only raw.”
16 If the person said to him, “Let the fat(A) be burned first, and then take whatever you want,” the servant would answer, “No, hand it over now; if you don’t, I’ll take it by force.”
17 This sin of the young men was very great in the Lord’s sight, for they[a] were treating the Lord’s offering with contempt.(B)
Footnotes
- 1 Samuel 2:17 Dead Sea Scrolls and Septuagint; Masoretic Text people
Luke 18:2-4
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2 He said: “In a certain town there was a judge who neither feared God nor cared what people thought. 3 And there was a widow in that town who kept coming to him with the plea, ‘Grant me justice(A) against my adversary.’
4 “For some time he refused. But finally he said to himself, ‘Even though I don’t fear God or care what people think,
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