Nehemiah 6:13

For I have heard the whispering of many: “Terror is on every side! Report him; let us report him!” All my trusted friends watch for my fall: “Perhaps he will be deceived so that we may prevail against him and take our vengeance upon him.”

Anyone, then, who knows the right thing to do, yet fails to do it, is guilty of sin.

that read: “It is reported among the nations—and Geshem agrees—that you and the Jews are plotting to revolt, and this is why you are building the wall. According to these reports, you are to become their king,

But I will keep on doing what I am doing, in order to undercut those who want an opportunity to be regarded as our equals in the things of which they boast.

For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.

Now the chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin were seeking false testimony against Jesus in order to put Him to death.

But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death.”

So I advise the younger widows to marry, have children, and manage their households, denying the adversary occasion for slander.

Then some said, “Come, let us make plans against Jeremiah, for the law will never be lost to the priest, nor counsel to the wise, nor an oracle to the prophet. Come, let us denounce him and pay no heed to any of his words.”