Fear God

And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the Fear of God is not in this place; and they will slay me for my wife's sake.

And God heard the voice of the lad; and the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her, What aileth thee, Hagar? Fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the lad where he is.

• Isaac
• Communion

And the LORD appeared unto him the same night, and said, I am the God of Abraham thy father: Fear not, for I am with thee, and will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham's sake.

• Thankfulness

Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the Fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely thou hadst sent me away now empty. God hath seen mine affliction and the labour of my hands, and rebuked thee yesternight.

The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge betwixt us. And Jacob sware by the Fear of his father Isaac.

And Joseph said unto them the third day, This do, and live; for I Fear God:

And he said, Peace be to you, Fear not: your God, and the God of your father, hath given you treasure in your sacks: I had your money. And he brought Simeon out unto them.

And he said, I am God, the God of thy father: Fear not to go down into Egypt; for I will there make of thee a great nation:

And Joseph said unto them, Fear not: for am I in the place of God?

• Pharaoh
• Impenitence

But as for thee and thy servants, I know that ye will not yet Fear the LORD God.

Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as Fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:

And Moses said unto the people, Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and that his Fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not.

Ye shall Fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.

• Stumbling-block
• Stumbling

Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor put a stumblingblock before the blind, but shalt Fear thy God: I am the LORD.

• Manners

Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and Fear thy God: I am the LORD.

Ye shall not therefore oppress one another; but thou shalt Fear thy God: for I am the LORD your God.

Take thou no usury of him, or increase: but Fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee.

• Servant

Thou shalt not rule over him with rigour; but shalt Fear thy God.

Behold, the LORD thy God hath set the land before thee: go up and possess it, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath said unto thee; Fear not, neither be discouraged.

Ye shall not Fear them: for the LORD your God he shall fight for you.

Specially the day that thou stoodest before the LORD thy God in Horeb, when the LORD said unto me, Gather me the people together, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to Fear me all the days that they shall live upon the earth, and that they may teach their children.

That thou mightest Fear the LORD thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son's son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged.

Thou shalt Fear the LORD thy God, and serve him, and shalt swear by his name.

And the LORD commanded us to do all these statutes, to Fear the LORD our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as it is at this day.

Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to Fear him.

• Heart

And now, Israel, what doth the LORD thy God require of thee, but to Fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul,

Thou shalt Fear the LORD thy God; him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou cleave, and swear by his name.

There shall no man be able to stand before you: for the LORD your God shall lay the Fear of you and the dread of you upon all the land that ye shall tread upon, as he hath said unto you.

Ye shall walk after the LORD your God, and Fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him.

And thou shalt eat before the LORD thy God, in the place which he shall choose to place his name there, the tithe of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the firstlings of thy herds and of thy flocks; that thou mayest learn to Fear the LORD thy God always.

And it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life: that he may learn to Fear the LORD his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them:

• Glory

If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that thou mayest Fear this glorious and fearful name, THE LORD THY God;

In the morning thou shalt say, Would God it were even! and at even thou shalt say, Would God it were morning! for the Fear of thine heart wherewith thou shalt Fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.

Be strong and of a good courage, Fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the LORD thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Gather the people together, men, and women, and children, and thy stranger that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and Fear the LORD your God, and observe to do all the words of this law:

And that their children, which have not known any thing, may hear, and learn to Fear the LORD your God, as long as ye live in the land whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.

• Hand

That all the people of the earth might know the hand of the LORD, that it is mighty: that ye might Fear the LORD your God for ever.

And if we have not rather done it for Fear of this thing, saying, In time to come your children might speak unto our children, saying, What have ye to do with the LORD God of Israel?

And I said unto you, I am the LORD your God; Fear not the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but ye have not obeyed my voice.

If ye will Fear the LORD, and serve him, and obey his voice, and not rebel against the commandment of the LORD, then shall both ye and also the king that reigneth over you continue following the LORD your God:

The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the Fear of God.

But the LORD your God ye shall Fear; and he shall deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies.

And David said to Solomon his son, Be strong and of good courage, and do it: Fear not, nor be dismayed: for the LORD God, even my God, will be with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee, until thou hast finished all the work for the service of the house of the LORD.

Wherefore now let the Fear of the LORD be upon you; take heed and do it: for there is no iniquity with the LORD our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of gifts.

And the Fear of God was on all the kingdoms of those countries, when they had heard that the LORD fought against the enemies of Israel.

• Inconsistency

Also I said, It is not good that ye do: ought ye not to walk in the Fear of our God because of the reproach of the heathen our enemies?

• Conscience

But the former governors that had been before me were chargeable unto the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, beside forty shekels of silver; yea, even their servants bare rule over the people: but so did not I, because of the Fear of God.

• Noadiah
• Prophets
• Noadiah

My God, think thou upon Tobiah and Sanballat according to these their works, and on the prophetess Noadiah, and the rest of the prophets, that would have put me in Fear.

Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, Doth Job Fear God for nought?

Yea, thou castest off Fear, and restrainest prayer before God.

Their houses are safe from Fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.

There were they in great Fear: for God is in the generation of the righteous.

{To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David the servant of the LORD.} The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart, that there is no Fear of God before his eyes.

And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and Fear, and shall trust in the LORD.

There were they in great Fear, where no Fear was: for God hath scattered the bones of him that encampeth against thee: thou hast put them to shame, because God hath despised them.

God shall hear, and afflict them, even he that abideth of old. Selah. Because they have no changes, therefore they Fear not God.

In God I will praise his word, in God I have put my trust; I will not Fear what flesh can do unto me.

For thou, O God, hast heard my vows: thou hast given me the heritage of those that Fear thy name.

{To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.} Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer: preserve my life from Fear of the enemy.

And all men shall Fear, and shall declare the work of God; for they shall wisely consider of his doing.

• DAVID
• Decision

Come and hear, all ye that Fear God, and I will declare what he hath done for my soul.

God shall bless us; and all the ends of the earth shall Fear him.

Then shalt thou understand the Fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.

I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth it, that men should Fear before him.

For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also divers vanities: but Fear thou God.

Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his days be prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that Fear God, which Fear before him:

Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.

But when he seeth his children, the work of mine hands, in the midst of him, they shall sanctify my name, and sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall Fear the God of Israel.

Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, Fear not: behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompence; he will come and save you.

• Power
• War

Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.

For I the LORD thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee.

Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have not I told thee from that time, and have declared it? ye are even my witnesses. Is there a God beside me? yea, there is no God; I know not any.

Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, and that my Fear is not in thee, saith the Lord God of hosts.

Neither say they in their heart, Let us now Fear the LORD our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his season: he reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest.

Behold, I will bring a Fear upon thee, saith the Lord God of hosts, from all those that be about thee; and ye shall be driven out every man right forth; and none shall gather up him that wandereth.

Thus saith the Lord God; I will also destroy the idols, and I will cause their images to cease out of Noph; and there shall be no more a prince of the land of Egypt: and I will put a Fear in the land of Egypt.

I make a decree, That in every dominion of my kingdom men tremble and Fear before the God of Daniel: for he is the living God, and stedfast for ever, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed, and his dominion shall be even unto the end.

• Prayer

Then said he unto me, Fear not, Daniel: for from the first day that thou didst set thine heart to understand, and to chasten thyself before thy God, thy words were heard, and I am come for thy words.

Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the LORD their God, and David their king; and shall Fear the LORD and his goodness in the latter days.

The lion hath roared, who will not Fear? the Lord God hath spoken, who can but prophesy?

• Jonah
• Converts
• Hebrew

And he said unto them, I am an Hebrew; and I Fear the LORD, the God of heaven, which hath made the sea and the dry land.

They shall lick the dust like a serpent, they shall move out of their holes like worms of the earth: they shall be afraid of the LORD our God, and shall Fear because of thee.

• Obedience

Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of the LORD their God, and the words of Haggai the prophet, as the LORD their God had sent him, and the people did Fear before the LORD.

And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favour with God.

And they were all amazed, and they glorified God, and were filled with Fear, saying, We have seen strange things to day.

And there came a Fear on all: and they glorified God, saying, That a great prophet is risen up among us; and, That God hath visited his people.

And he would not for a while: but afterward he said within himself, Though I Fear not God, nor regard man;

But the other answering rebuked him, saying, Dost not thou Fear God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation?

• Catholicity

Then Paul stood up, and beckoning with his hand said, Men of Israel, and ye that Fear God, give audience.

Saying, Fear not, Paul; thou must be brought before Caesar: and, lo, God hath given thee all them that sail with thee.

There is no Fear of God before their eyes.

Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the Fear of God.

Submitting yourselves one to another in the Fear of God.

For God hath not given us the spirit of Fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

• Ark
• NOAH
• Decision

By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with Fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.

• Assurance

Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly Fear:

Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.

• Holy
• Heart

But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and Fear:

And after three days and an half the Spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great Fear fell upon them which saw them.

Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.

And a voice came out of the throne, saying, Praise our God, all ye his servants, and ye that Fear him, both small and great.