34 Bible Verses about Fearing Other People

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Genesis 20:8

Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called all his servants, and told all these things in their ear. The men were very scared.

Exodus 1:12

But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread out. They were grieved because of the children of Israel.

Psalm 105:38

Egypt was glad when they departed, for the fear of them had fallen on them.

Deuteronomy 2:4

Command the people, saying, 'You are to pass through the border of your brothers the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir; and they will be afraid of you: take good heed to yourselves therefore;

Joshua 10:2

that they were very afraid, because Gibeon was a great city, as one of the royal cities, and because it was greater than Ai, and all its men were mighty.

Numbers 22:3

Moab was very afraid of the people, because they were many: and Moab was distressed because of the children of Israel.

Esther 8:17

In every province, and in every city, wherever the king's commandment and his decree came, the Jews had gladness, joy, a feast, and a good day. Many from among the peoples of the land became Jews; for the fear of the Jews was fallen on them.

Esther 9:2

the Jews gathered themselves together in their cities throughout all the provinces of the King Ahasuerus, to lay hands on those who wanted to harm them. No one could withstand them, because the fear of them had fallen on all the people.

Isaiah 19:17

The land of Judah will become a terror to Egypt. Everyone to whom mention is made of it will be afraid, because of the plans of the LORD of hosts, which he determines against it.

Ezekiel 26:17

They shall take up a lamentation over you, and tell you, "How you are destroyed, who were inhabited by seafaring men, the renowned city, who was strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, who caused their terror to be on all who lived there.

Habakkuk 1:7

They are feared and dreaded. Their judgment and their dignity proceed from themselves.

John 12:42

Nevertheless even of the rulers many believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they did not confess it, so that they would not be put out of the synagogue,

Exodus 14:10

When Pharaoh drew near, the children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians were marching after them; and they were very afraid. The children of Israel cried out to the LORD.

Isaiah 18:2

that sends ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus on the waters, saying, "Go, you swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people awesome from their beginning onward, a nation that measures out and treads down, whose land the rivers divide."

Isaiah 18:7

In that time, a present will be brought to the LORD of hosts from a people tall and smooth, even from a people awesome from their beginning onward, a nation that measures out and treads down, whose land the rivers divide, to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, Mount Zion.

Judges 6:27

Then Gideon took ten men of his servants, and did as the LORD had spoken to him: and it came about, because he feared his father's household and the men of the city, so that he could not do it by day, that he did it by night.

1 Samuel 15:24

Saul said to Samuel, "I have sinned; for I have transgressed the commandment of the LORD, and your words, because I feared the people, and obeyed their voice.

Matthew 14:5

And though he wanted to kill him, he feared the crowd because they regarded him as a prophet.

Jeremiah 38:19

Zedekiah the king said to Jeremiah, "I am afraid of the Jews who are fallen away to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me into their hand, and they mock me."

Matthew 21:26

But if we say, 'From man,' we fear the crowd, for all hold John as a prophet."

Mark 11:32

If we should say, 'From man'"?they feared the crowd, for all held John to really be a prophet.

Matthew 21:46

When they sought to seize him, they feared the crowds, because they considered him to be a prophet.

Mark 12:12

They tried to seize him, but they feared the crowd; for they perceived that he spoke the parable against them. They left him, and went away.

Luke 20:19

The chief priests and the scribes sought to lay hands on him that very hour, but they feared the people?for they knew he had spoken this parable against them.

Luke 22:2

The chief priests and the scribes sought how they might kill him, for they feared the people.

Acts 5:26

Then the captain went with the officers, and brought them without violence, for they were afraid that the people might stone them.

2 Corinthians 10:9

that I may not seem as if I desire to terrify you by my letters.

Ezekiel 32:23

whose graves are set in the uttermost parts of the pit, and her company is around her grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who caused terror in the land of the living.

Ezekiel 32:24

"There is Elam and all her multitude around her grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who are gone down uncircumcised into the lower parts of the earth, who caused their terror in the land of the living, and have borne their shame with those who go down to the pit.

Ezekiel 32:25

They have set her a bed in the midst of the slain with all her multitude; her graves are around her; all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; for their terror was caused in the land of the living, and they have borne their shame with those who go down to the pit: he is put in the midst of those who are slain.

Ezekiel 32:26

"There is Meshech, Tubal, and all their multitude; their graves are around them; all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; for they caused their terror in the land of the living.

Ezekiel 32:27

They shall not lie with the mighty who are fallen of the uncircumcised, who are gone down to Sheol with their weapons of war, and have laid their swords under their heads, and their iniquities are on their bones; for they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.

Ezekiel 32:30

"There are the princes of the north, all of them, and all the Sidonians, who are gone down with the slain; in the terror which they caused by their might they are put to shame; and they lie uncircumcised with those who are slain by the sword, and bear their shame with those who go down to the pit.

Ezekiel 32:32

"For I have put his terror in the land of the living; and he shall be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword, even Pharaoh and all his multitude," says the Lord GOD.

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