Nehemiah 5:14 Cross References
Nehemiah 5:14
14: I would like to mention that for the entire twelve years that I was governor of Judah--from the twentieth until the thirty-second year of the reign of King Artaxerxes--neither I nor my officials drew on our official food allowance.
Nehemiah 13:6
- I was not in Jerusalem at that time, for I had returned to the king in the thirty-second year of the reign of King Artaxerxes of Babylon, though I later received his permission to return.
2 Thessalonians 3:8
- We never accepted food from anyone without paying for it. We worked hard day and night so that we would not be a burden to any of you.
- It wasn't that we didn't have the right to ask you to feed us, but we wanted to give you an example to follow.
Nehemiah 2:1
- Early the following spring, during the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes' reign, I was serving the king his wine. I had never appeared sad in his presence before this time.
1 Corinthians 9:18
- What then is my pay? It is the satisfaction I get from preaching the Good News without expense to anyone, never demanding my rights as a preacher.
1 Corinthians 9:4
- Don't we have the right to live in your homes and share your meals?
- Don't we have the right to bring a Christian wife along with us as the other disciples and the Lord's brothers and Peter do?
- Or is it only Barnabas and I who have to work to support ourselves?
- What soldier has to pay his own expenses? And have you ever heard of a farmer who harvests his crop and doesn't have the right to eat some of it? What shepherd takes care of a flock of sheep and isn't allowed to drink some of the milk?
- And this isn't merely human opinion. Doesn't God's law say the same thing?
Ezra 4:13
- But we wish you to know that if this city is rebuilt and its walls are completed, it will be much to your disadvantage, for the Jews will then refuse to pay their tribute, customs, and tolls to you.
- "Since we are loyal to you as your subjects and we do not want to see you dishonored in this way, we have sent you this information.
Romans 13:6
- Pay your taxes, too, for these same reasons. For government workers need to be paid so they can keep on doing the work God intended them to do.
- Give to everyone what you owe them: Pay your taxes and import duties, and give respect and honor to all to whom it is due.