Nehemiah 6:19
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Moreover, these nobles kept reporting to me Tobiah’s good deeds, and they relayed my words to him. And Tobiah sent letters to intimidate me.”
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“Moreover, these nobles kept reporting to me Tobiah’s good deeds, and they relayed my words to him. And Tobiah sent letters to intimidate me.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Also they reported his good deeds before me, and uttered my words to him. And Tobiah sent letters to put me in fear.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Also they spake of his good deeds before me, and reported my words to him. And Tobiah sent letters to put me in fear.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“also, his good deeds they have been saying before me, and my words they have been taking out to him; letters hath Tobiah sent to make me afraid.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Nehemiah 6:19 — 8 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Nehemiah 6:9For they were all trying to frighten us, saying, “Their hands will be weakened in the work, and it will never be finished.” But now, my God, strengthen my hands.
- Nehemiah 6:13He had been hired to intimidate me so that I would sin by doing as he suggested, so they could give me a bad name in order to discredit me.
- Proverbs 28:4Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, but those who keep the law resist them.
- Isaiah 37:10“Give this message to Hezekiah king of Judah: ‘Do not let your God, in whom you trust, deceive you by saying that Jerusalem will not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
- John 7:7The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me, because I testify that its works are evil.
- John 15:19If you were of the world, it would love you as its own. Instead, the world hates you, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world.
- Acts 4:18Then they called them in again and commanded them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus.
- 1 John 4:5They are of the world. That is why they speak from the world’s perspective, and the world listens to them.
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