Exodus 1:17

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Exodus 1:17

But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive.

Feared god

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Feared god

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

And Joseph said to them the third day, This do, that ye may live: I fear God.

But the former governors that were before me had been chargeable to the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, besides forty shekels of silver: even their servants bore rule over the people. But I did not so, because of the fear of God.

Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee, which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee, before the sons of men!

The fear of Jehovah is to hate evil; pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth do I hate.

By loving-kindness and truth iniquity is atoned for; and by the fear of Jehovah men depart from evil.

Deliver them that are taken forth unto death, and withdraw not from them that stagger to slaughter.

Though a sinner do evil a hundred times, and prolong his days, yet I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, because they fear before him;

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

Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer thee in this matter.

Then they answered and said before the king, That Daniel, who is of the children of the captivity of Judah, regardeth not thee, O king, nor the decree that thou hast signed, but maketh his petition three times a day.

Ephraim is oppressed, crushed in judgment, because in selfwill he walked after the commandment of man.

For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab; and ye walk in their counsels: that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof a hissing; and ye shall bear the reproach of my people.

And be not afraid of those who kill the body, but cannot kill the soul; but fear rather him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

But I will shew you whom ye shall fear: Fear him who after he has killed has authority to cast into hell; yea, I say to you, Fear him.

But Peter and John answering said to them, If it be righteous before God to listen to you rather than to God, judge ye;

But Peter answering, and the apostles, said, God must be obeyed rather than men.