Exodus 20:20

The People's Reaction

¹⁹ And they said to Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear, but let not God speak with us, lest we die. ²⁰ And Moses said to the people, Fear not, for God has come to prove you, and that his fear may be before you, that ye not sin. ²¹ And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near to the thick darkness where God was.

Before Your Face

Do Not Be Afraid

Do Not Fear

Fear Not

For This Cause

Moses

No

Sin

Deuteronomy 13:3

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.

Isaiah 8:13

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

Genesis 22:1

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

1 Samuel 12:20

And Samuel said to the people, Fear not. Ye have indeed done all this evil, yet turn not aside from following LORD, but serve LORD with all your heart.

Proverbs 3:7

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

Isaiah 41:10

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.

Genesis 20:11

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.

Genesis 22:12

And he said, Do not lay thy hand upon the lad, neither do thou anything to him. For now I know that thou fear God, since thou have not withheld thy son, thine only son, from me.

Exodus 15:25-26

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,

Deuteronomy 4:10

the day that thou stood before LORD thy God in Horeb, when LORD said to me, Assemble the people to me, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live upon the earth, and that they may

Deuteronomy 6:2

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.

Deuteronomy 8:2

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.

Deuteronomy 10:12

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,

Joshua 24:14

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.

Nehemiah 5:15

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.

Job 28:28

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

Proverbs 1:7

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

Proverbs 16:6

By mercy and truth iniquity is atoned for, and by the fear of LORD men depart from evil.