Genesis 22:12

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Genesis 22:12

"Do not harm the boy!" the angel said. "Do not do anything to him, for now I know that you fear God because you did not withhold your son, your only son, from me."

1 Samuel 15:22

Then Samuel said, "Does the Lord take pleasure in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as he does in obedience? Certainly, obedience is better than sacrifice; paying attention is better than the fat of rams.

James 2:21-22

Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered Isaac his son on the altar?

Genesis 26:5

All this will come to pass because Abraham obeyed me and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws."

John 3:16

For this is the way God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.

Genesis 20:11

Abraham replied, "Because I thought, 'Surely no one fears God in this place. They will kill me because of my wife.'

Genesis 22:2

God said, "Take your son -- your only son, whom you love, Isaac -- and go to the land of Moriah! Offer him up there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains which I will indicate to you."

Genesis 42:18

On the third day Joseph said to them, "Do as I say and you will live, for I fear God.

Exodus 20:20

Moses said to the people, "Do not fear, for God has come to test you, that the fear of him may be before you so that you do not sin."

1 Samuel 12:24-25

However, fear the Lord and serve him faithfully with all your heart. Just look at the great things he has done for you!

Nehemiah 5:15

But the former governors who preceded me had burdened the people and had taken food and wine from them, in addition to forty shekels of silver. Their associates were also domineering over the people. But I did not behave in this way, due to my fear of God.

Job 5:19

He will deliver you from six calamities; yes, in seven no evil will touch you.

Job 28:28

And he said to mankind, 'The fear of the Lord -- that is wisdom, and to turn away from evil is understanding.'"

Psalm 1:6

Certainly the Lord guards the way of the godly, but the way of the wicked ends in destruction.

Psalm 2:11

Serve the Lord in fear! Repent in terror!

Psalm 25:12

The Lord shows his faithful followers the way they should live.

Psalm 25:14

The Lord's loyal followers receive his guidance, and he reveals his covenantal demands to them.

Psalm 111:10-1

To obey the Lord is the fundamental principle for wise living; all who carry out his precepts acquire good moral insight. He will receive praise forever.

Psalm 147:11

The Lord takes delight in his faithful followers, and in those who wait for his loyal love.

Proverbs 1:7

Fearing the Lord is the beginning of moral knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Ecclesiastes 8:12-13

Even though a sinner might commit a hundred crimes and still live a long time, yet I know that it will go well with God-fearing people -- for they stand in fear before him.

Ecclesiastes 12:13

Having heard everything, I have reached this conclusion: Fear God and keep his commandments, because this is the whole duty of man.

Jeremiah 19:5

They have built places here for worship of the god Baal so that they could sacrifice their children as burnt offerings to him in the fire. Such sacrifices are something I never commanded them to make! They are something I never told them to do! Indeed, such a thing never even entered my mind!

Jeremiah 32:40

I will make a lasting covenant with them that I will never stop doing good to them. I will fill their hearts and minds with respect for me so that they will never again turn away from me.

Micah 6:6-8

With what should I enter the Lord's presence? With what should I bow before the sovereign God? Should I enter his presence with burnt offerings, with year-old calves?

Malachi 4:2

But for you who respect my name, the sun of vindication will rise with healing wings, and you will skip about like calves released from the stall.

Matthew 5:16

In the same way, let your light shine before people, so that they can see your good deeds and give honor to your Father in heaven.

Matthew 10:37-38

"Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

Matthew 16:24

Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone wants to become my follower, he must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.

Matthew 19:29

And whoever has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or fields for my sake will receive a hundred times as much and will inherit eternal life.

Acts 9:31

Then the church throughout Judea, Galilee, and Samaria experienced peace and thus was strengthened. Living in the fear of the Lord and in the encouragement of the Holy Spirit, the church increased in numbers.

Romans 5:8

But God demonstrates his own love for us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Romans 8:32

Indeed, he who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all -- how will he not also, along with him, freely give us all things?

1 Corinthians 10:13

No trial has overtaken you that is not faced by others. And God is faithful: He will not let you be tried beyond what you are able to bear, but with the trial will also provide a way out so that you may be able to endure it.

2 Corinthians 8:12

For if the eagerness is present, the gift itself is acceptable according to whatever one has, not according to what he does not have.

Hebrews 11:19

and he reasoned that God could even raise him from the dead, and in a sense he received him back from there.

Hebrews 12:28

So since we are receiving an unshakable kingdom, let us give thanks, and through this let us offer worship pleasing to God in devotion and awe.

James 2:18

But someone will say, "You have faith and I have works." Show me your faith without works and I will show you faith by my works.

1 John 4:9-10

By this the love of God is revealed in us: that God has sent his one and only Son into the world so that we may live through him.

Revelation 19:5

Then a voice came from the throne, saying: "Praise our God all you his servants, and all you who fear Him, both the small and the great!"

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Genesis 22:12

And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.

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Abraham replied, "Because I thought, 'Surely no one fears God in this place. They will kill me because of my wife.'

All this will come to pass because Abraham obeyed me and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws."

On the third day Joseph said to them, "Do as I say and you will live, for I fear God.

Moses said to the people, "Do not fear, for God has come to test you, that the fear of him may be before you so that you do not sin."

However, fear the Lord and serve him faithfully with all your heart. Just look at the great things he has done for you!

And he said to mankind, 'The fear of the Lord -- that is wisdom, and to turn away from evil is understanding.'"

Certainly the Lord guards the way of the godly, but the way of the wicked ends in destruction.

Serve the Lord in fear! Repent in terror!

The Lord shows his faithful followers the way they should live.

To obey the Lord is the fundamental principle for wise living; all who carry out his precepts acquire good moral insight. He will receive praise forever.

Praise the Lord! How blessed is the one who obeys the Lord, who takes great delight in keeping his commands.