Luke 19:21

for I was afraid of you, because you are an exacting man; you take up what you did not lay down and reap what you did not sow.’

Exodus 20:19-20

Then they said to Moses, “Speak to us yourself and we will listen; but let not God speak to us, or we will die.”

1 Samuel 6:19-21

He struck down some of the men of Beth-shemesh because they had looked into the ark of the Lord. He struck down of all the people, 50,070 men, and the people mourned because the Lord had struck the people with a great slaughter.

1 Samuel 12:20

Samuel said to the people, “Do not fear. You have committed all this evil, yet do not turn aside from following the Lord, but serve the Lord with all your heart.

2 Samuel 6:9-11

So David was afraid of the Lord that day; and he said, “How can the ark of the Lord come to me?”

Job 21:14-15

“They say to God, ‘Depart from us!
We do not even desire the knowledge of Your ways.

Ezekiel 18:25-29

Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not right.’ Hear now, O house of Israel! Is My way not right? Is it not your ways that are not right?

Malachi 3:14-15

You have said, ‘It is vain to serve God; and what profit is it that we have kept His charge, and that we have walked in mourning before the Lord of hosts?

Matthew 25:24-25

“And the one also who had received the one talent came up and said, ‘Master, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you did not sow and gathering where you scattered no seed.

Romans 8:7

because the mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God; for it does not subject itself to the law of God, for it is not even able to do so,

Romans 8:15

For you have not received a spirit of slavery leading to fear again, but you have received a spirit of adoption as sons by which we cry out, “Abba! Father!”

2 Timothy 1:7

For God has not given us a spirit of timidity, but of power and love and discipline.

James 2:10

For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all.

1 John 4:18

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves punishment, and the one who fears is not perfected in love.

Jude 1:15

to execute judgment upon all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their ungodly deeds which they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.”

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

For I feared thee, because thou art an austere man: thou takest up that thou layedst not down, and reapest that thou didst not sow.

General references

Bible References

I feared

Exodus 20:19
Then they said to Moses, “Speak to us yourself and we will listen; but let not God speak to us, or we will die.”
1 Samuel 12:20
Samuel said to the people, “Do not fear. You have committed all this evil, yet do not turn aside from following the Lord, but serve the Lord with all your heart.
Matthew 25:24
“And the one also who had received the one talent came up and said, ‘Master, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you did not sow and gathering where you scattered no seed.
Romans 8:15
For you have not received a spirit of slavery leading to fear again, but you have received a spirit of adoption as sons by which we cry out, “Abba! Father!”
2 Timothy 1:7
For God has not given us a spirit of timidity, but of power and love and discipline.
James 2:10
For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all.
1 John 4:18
There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves punishment, and the one who fears is not perfected in love.

Because

1 Samuel 6:19
He struck down some of the men of Beth-shemesh because they had looked into the ark of the Lord. He struck down of all the people, 50,070 men, and the people mourned because the Lord had struck the people with a great slaughter.
2 Samuel 6:9
So David was afraid of the Lord that day; and he said, “How can the ark of the Lord come to me?”
Job 21:14
“They say to God, ‘Depart from us!
We do not even desire the knowledge of Your ways.
Ezekiel 18:25
Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not right.’ Hear now, O house of Israel! Is My way not right? Is it not your ways that are not right?
Malachi 3:14
You have said, ‘It is vain to serve God; and what profit is it that we have kept His charge, and that we have walked in mourning before the Lord of hosts?
Romans 8:7
because the mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God; for it does not subject itself to the law of God, for it is not even able to do so,
Jude 1:15
to execute judgment upon all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their ungodly deeds which they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.”

General references

Ezekiel 33:17
“Yet your fellow citizens say, ‘The way of the Lord is not right,’ when it is their own way that is not right.