Exodus 20:20

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Summary

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.

Prove

His fear

General references

Deuteronomy 4:36

Deuteronomy 5:4

Bible References

Prove

And he cried to LORD. And LORD showed him a tree, and he cast it into the waters, and the waters were made sweet. There he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he proved them,

And it came to pass after these things, that God proved Abraham, and said to him, Abraham. And he said, Here I am.

And thou shall remember all the way which LORD thy God has led thee these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble thee, to prove thee, to know what was in thy heart, whether thou would keep his commandments, or not.

thou shall not hearken to the words of that prophet, or to that dreamer of dreams, for LORD your God proves you, to know whether ye love LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

His fear

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

that thou might fear 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.

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

Now therefore fear LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in truth. And put away the gods which your fathers served beyond the River, and in Egypt, and serve ye LORD.

But the former governors who were before me charged the people, and took bread and wine from them, besides forty shekels of silver. Yes, even their servants bore rule over the people. But I did not so, because of the fear of God.

And to man he said, Behold, the fear of LORD, that is wisdom, and to depart from evil is understanding.

The fear of LORD is the beginning of knowledge. The foolish despise wisdom and instruction.

Be not wise in thine own eyes. Fear LORD, and depart from evil.

LORD of hosts, him ye shall sanctify, and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.

General references

Out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might instruct thee. And upon earth he made thee to see his great fire, and thou heard his words out of the midst of the fire.

LORD spoke with you face to face in the mount out of the midst of the fire