Proverbs 29:25
25 aThe fear of man lays a snare,but whoever trusts in the Lord is safe.
Isaiah 57:11
11 bWhom did you dread and fear,cso that you lied,
and did not remember me,
did not lay it to heart?
dHave I not held my peace, even for a long time,
and you do not fear me?
Matthew 26:69-75
Peter Denies Jesus
69 eNow Peter was sitting outside fin the courtyard. And a servant girl came up to him and said, “You also were with Jesus the Galilean.” 70But he denied it before them all, saying, “I do not know what you mean.” 71And when he went out to the entrance, another servant girl saw him, and she said to the bystanders, “This man was with Jesus gof Nazareth.” 72And again he denied it with an oath: “I do not know the man.” 73After a little while the bystanders came up and said to Peter, “Certainly you too are one of them, for hyour accent betrays you.” 74Then he began to invoke a curse on himself and to swear, “I do not know the man.” And immediately the rooster crowed. 75And Peter remembered the saying of Jesus, i“Before the rooster crows, you will jdeny me three times.” And he went out and wept bitterly.
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