Neh 5:9, Pro 1:29, 2Pe 3:5 | ESV | STEP | So I said , The thing that you are doing is not good . Ought you not to walk in the fear of our God to prevent the taunts of the nations our enemies ?

c[See ver. 22 above]

Nehemiah 5:9

9 So I said, “The thing that you are doing is not good. Ought you not to walk ^ain the fear of our God ^bto prevent the taunts of the nations our enemies?

Proverbs 1:29

29 Because they ^chated knowledge
and ^ddid not choose the fear of the Lord,

2 Peter 3:5

5 For they deliberately overlook this fact, that the heavens existed long ago, and the earth ^ewas formed out of water and through water ^fby the word of God,