So I said,“ The thing which you are doing is not good; should you not walk in the fear of our God because of the taunting of the nations, our enemies?

我又说：“你们所行的不善！你们行事不当敬畏我们的神吗？不然，难免我们的仇敌外邦人毁谤我们。

我又说：“你们做的这事不对！你们行事不是应该敬畏我们的上帝，免得列国我们的仇敌毁谤我们吗？

我又说：“你们做的这事不对！你们行事不是应该敬畏我们的神，免得列国我们的仇敌毁谤我们吗？

我继续说：“你们的所作所为实在不对。难道你们不应该敬畏上帝，以免我们的仇敌凌辱我们吗？

我又说：“你们这事作得不对。你们岂不应怀着敬畏我们神的心行事为人，免遭我们的仇敌外族人的毁谤吗？

我又說：「你們所行的不善！你們行事不當敬畏我們的神嗎？不然，難免我們的仇敵外邦人毀謗我們。

我又說：「你們做的這事不對！你們行事不是應該敬畏我們的上帝，免得列國我們的仇敵毀謗我們嗎？

我又說：「你們做的這事不對！你們行事不是應該敬畏我們的神，免得列國我們的仇敵毀謗我們嗎？

我繼續說：「你們的所作所為實在不對。難道你們不應該敬畏上帝，以免我們的仇敵凌辱我們嗎？

我又說：“你們這事作得不對。你們豈不應懷著敬畏我們神的心行事為人，免遭我們的仇敵外族人的毀謗嗎？

我又說：『你們所行的這事很不好；你們行事為人、豈不當存着敬畏我們的上帝的心，以避免我們的仇敵、外國人、的毁謗麼？

我又曰、爾曹所為不善、爾之行事、不當寅畏我之上帝、免我敵諸國之謗乎、

我又曰、爾所為不善、尚其寅畏上帝、則敵我之異邦人、誰敢侮予。

我又曰、爾所為不善、爾行事當敬畏我天主、不然、難免被異邦人我敵恥笑、恥笑或作訕謗

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

So I continued,“ What you are doing isn’t right. Shouldn’t you show respect for our God? Shouldn’t you live in a way that will keep our enemies from saying bad things about us?

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?

Then I pressed further,“ What you are doing is not right! Should you not walk in the fear of our God in order to avoid being mocked by enemy nations?

Then I said,“ What you are doing isn’t right. Shouldn’t you walk in the fear of our God and not invite the reproach of our foreign enemies?

Then I said,“ What you are doing is not good. Should you not walk in the fear of our God because of the reproach of the nations, our enemies?

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

Then I said,“ What you are doing isn’t right. Shouldn’t you walk in the fear of our God and not invite the reproach of our foreign enemies?

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?

Then I said,“ The thing that you are doing is wrong! Should you not conduct yourselves in the fear of our God in order to avoid the reproach of the Gentiles who are our enemies?

Also I said,“ The thing that you do is not good. Shouldn’t you walk in the fear of our God, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies?

Do not take any kind of interest from him, but fear your God, so that your countryman may live with you.

However, since by this deed you have shown utter disrespect for the Lord, the child himself who is born to you shall certainly die.”

Also it is not good for a person to be without knowledge, And one who hurries his footsteps errs.

Now Joseph said to them on the third day,“ Do this and live, for I fear God:

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

But the previous governors who were before me laid burdens on the people and took from them bread and wine besides forty shekels of silver; even their servants domineered the people. But I did not do so because of my fear of God.

Abraham said,“ Because I thought, surely there is no fear of God in this place, and they will kill me because of my wife.

No, my sons; for the report is not good which I hear the Lord’s people circulating.

So the church throughout Judea, Galilee, and Samaria enjoyed peace, as it was being built up; and as it continued in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, it kept increasing.

to be sensible, pure, workers at home, kind, being subject to their own husbands, so that the word of God will not be dishonored.

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

And there was strife between the herdsmen of Abram’s livestock and the herdsmen of Lot’s livestock. Now the Canaanites and the Perizzites were living in the land at that time.So Abram said to Lot,“ Please let there be no strife between you and me, nor between my herdsmen and your herdsmen, for we are relatives!

When they came to the nations where they went, they profaned My holy name, because it was said of them,‘ These are the people of the Lord, yet they have left His land.’

Hear, O our God, how we are an object of contempt! Return their taunting on their own heads, and turn them into plunder in a land of captivity.

To show partiality to the wicked is not good, Nor to suppress the righteous in judgment.

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

It is also not good to fine the righteous, Nor to strike the noble for their uprightness.

Keep your behavior excellent among the Gentiles, so that in the thing in which they slander you as evildoers, they may because of your good deeds, as they observe them, glorify God on the day of visitation.

Therefore, I want younger widows to get married, have children, manage their households, and give the enemy no opportunity for reproach;