36 Do not take interest and usury from him,+ but you must be in fear of your God;+ and your brother must keep alive with you.

15 As for the former governors that were prior to me, they had made it heavy upon the people, and they kept taking from them for bread and wine daily* forty silver shekels.* Also, their attendants themselves domineered over the people.+ As for me, I did not do that way+ on account of the fear of God.+

13 The fear of Jehovah means the hating of bad.+ Self-exaltation and pride+ and the bad way and the perverse mouth+ I have hated.

12 Although a sinner may be doing bad+ a hundred times and continuing a long time as he pleases, yet I am also aware that it will turn out well with those fearing the [true] God,+ because they were in fear of him.+

6 “‘A son, for his part, honors a father;+ and a servant, his grand master.*+ So if I am a father,+ where is the honor to me?+ And if I am a grand master, where is the fear+ of me?’ Jehovah of armies has said to YOU, O priests who are despising my name.+

“‘And YOU have said: “In what way have we despised your name?”’