Genesis 20:11
11Abraham said, “I did it because I thought, a‘There is no fear of God at all in this place, and bthey will kill me because of my wife.’Genesis 42:18
18On the third day Joseph said to them, “Do this and you will live, cfor I fear God:Exodus 1:17
17But the midwives dfeared God and did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but let the male children live.Exodus 18:21
21Moreover, look for eable men from all the people, men who fear God, who are trustworthy and hate a bribe, and place such men over the people as chiefs of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens.Nehemiah 5:15
15The former governors who were before me laid heavy burdens on the people and took from them for their daily ration ▼▼Compare Vulgate; Hebrew took from them with food and wine afterward
forty shekels ▼▼A shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams
of silver. Even their servants lorded it over the people. But I did not do so, hbecause of the fear of God. Psalms 36:1
How Precious Is Your Steadfast Love
To the choirmaster. Of David, the iservant of the Lord.
1 Transgression speaks to the wickeddeep in his heart; ▼
▼Some Hebrew manuscripts, Syriac, Jerome (compare Septuagint); most Hebrew manuscripts in my heart
kthere is no fear of God
before his eyes.
Proverbs 8:13
13 lThe fear of the Lord is mhatred of evil.nPride and arrogance and the way of evil
and operverted speech I hate.
Proverbs 16:6
6By psteadfast love and faithfulness iniquity is atoned for,and by qthe fear of the Lord one rturns away from evil.
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