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.’Deuteronomy 6:2
2that cyou may fear the Lord your God, you and your son and your son’s son, by keeping all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you, all the days of your life, and dthat your days may be long.Deuteronomy 10:12
Circumcise Your Heart
12“And now, Israel, ewhat does the Lord your God require of you, but fto fear the Lord your God, gto walk in all his ways, hto love him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul,Joshua 24:14
Choose Whom You Will Serve
14 i“Now therefore fear the Lord and serve him in sincerity and in faithfulness. jPut away the gods that your fathers served beyond the River and in Egypt, and serve the Lord.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, mbecause of the fear of God. Job 28:28
28And he said to man,‘Behold, nthe fear of the Lord, that is wisdom,
and to oturn away from evil is understanding.’”
Proverbs 1:7
7 pThe fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge;fools despise wisdom and instruction.
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