44 Bible Verses about Reverence, And Blessing
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Not to us, Yahweh, not to us,
but to Your name give glory
because of Your faithful love, because of Your truth.
I will give them one heart and one way so that for their good and for the good of their descendants after them, they will fear Me always.
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom;
all who follow His instructions have good insight.
His praise endures forever.
The fear of the Lord
is the beginning of knowledge;
fools despise wisdom and discipline.
“The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom,
and the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.
The fear of the Lord is pure,
enduring forever;
the ordinances of the Lord are reliable
and altogether righteous.
The Spirit of the Lord will rest on Him—
a Spirit of wisdom and understanding,
a Spirit of counsel and strength,
a Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord.
His delight will be in the fear of the Lord.
He will not judge
by what He sees with His eyes,
He will not execute justice
by what He hears with His ears,
The secret counsel of the Lord
is for those who fear Him,
and He reveals His covenant to them.
At that time those who feared the Lord spoke to one another. The Lord took notice and listened. So a book of remembrance was written before Him for those who feared Yahweh and had high regard for His name. “They will be Mine,” says the Lord of Hosts, “a special possession on the day I am preparing. I will have compassion on them as a man has compassion on his son who serves him. So you will again see the difference between the righteous and the wicked, between one who serves God and one who does not serve Him.
but in every nation the person who fears Him and does righteousness is acceptable to Him.
Please, Lord, let Your ear be attentive to the prayer of Your servant and to that of Your servants who delight to revere Your name. Give Your servant success today, and have compassion on him in the presence of this man.
At the time, I was the king’s cupbearer.
As a father has compassion on his children,
so the Lord has compassion on those who fear Him.
He fulfills the desires of those who fear Him;
He hears their cry for help and saves them.
How great is Your goodness
that You have stored up for those who fear You
and accomplished in the sight of everyone
for those who take refuge in You.
There will be times of security for you—
a storehouse of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge.
The fear of the Lord is Zion’s treasure.
The Angel of the Lord encamps
around those who fear Him, and rescues them.
You have given a signal flag to those who fear You,
so that they can flee before the archers.Selah
In the fear of the Lord one has strong confidence
and his children have a refuge.
You who are His holy ones, fear Yahweh,
for those who fear Him lack nothing.
They have not said to themselves,
‘Let’s fear the Lord our God,
who gives the rain, both early and late, in its season,
who guarantees to us the fixed weeks of the harvest.’
Your guilty acts have diverted these things from you.
Your sins have withheld My bounty from you,
The Lord commanded us to follow all these statutes and to fear the Lord our God for our prosperity always and for our preservation, as it is today.
Satan answered the Lord, “Does Job fear God for nothing?
Who is the man who fears the Lord?
He will show him the way he should choose.
He will live a good life,
and his descendants will inherit the land.
But for you who fear My name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings, and you will go out and playfully jump like calves from the stall.
“If you are not careful to obey all the words of this law, which are written in this scroll, by fearing this glorious and awesome name—Yahweh, your God— He will bring extraordinary plagues on you and your descendants, severe and lasting plagues, and terrible and chronic sicknesses. He will afflict you again with all the diseases of Egypt, which you dreaded, and they will cling to you. read more.
The Lord will also afflict you with every sickness and plague not recorded in the book of this law, until you are destroyed. Though you were as numerous as the stars of the sky, you will be left with only a few people, because you did not obey the Lord your God. Just as the Lord was glad to cause you to prosper and to multiply you, so He will also be glad to cause you to perish and to destroy you. You will be deported from the land you are entering to possess. Then the Lord will scatter you among all peoples from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will worship other gods, of wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known. You will find no peace among those nations, and there will be no resting place for the sole of your foot. There the Lord will give you a trembling heart, failing eyes, and a despondent spirit. Your life will hang in doubt before you. You will be in dread night and day, never certain of survival. In the morning you will say, ‘If only it were evening!’ and in the evening you will say, ‘If only it were morning!’—because of the dread you will have in your heart and because of what you will see.
The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life,
turning people away from the snares of death.
Don’t let your heart envy sinners;
instead, always fear the Lord.
For then you will have a future,
and your hope will never fade.
This city will bear on My behalf a name of joy, praise, and glory before all the nations of the earth, who will hear of all the good I will do for them. They will tremble with awe because of all the good and all the peace I will bring about for them.
The God of Israel spoke;
the Rock of Israel said to me,
“The one who rules the people with justice,
who rules in the fear of God,
He sought God throughout the lifetime of Zechariah, the teacher of the fear of God. During the time that he sought the Lord, God gave him success.
So the church throughout all Judea, Galilee, and Samaria had peace, being built up and walking in the fear of the Lord and in the encouragement of the Holy Spirit, and it increased in numbers.