46 Bible Verses about Fear God!
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You must not curse a deaf person or put a stumbling block in front of a blind person. You must fear your God; I am the Lord.
You must stand up in the presence of the aged, honor the presence of an elder, and fear your God. I am the Lord.
No one is to oppress his fellow citizen, but you must fear your God, because I am the Lord your God.
Do not take interest or profit from him, but you must fear your God and your brother must live with you.
So you must keep his commandments, live according to his standards, and revere him.
Just as there is futility in many dreams, so also in many words. Therefore, fear God!
Having heard everything, I have reached this conclusion: Fear God and keep his commandments, because this is the whole duty of man.
Honor all people, love the family of believers, fear God, honor the king.
He declared in a loud voice: "Fear God and give him glory, because the hour of his judgment has arrived, and worship the one who made heaven and earth, the sea and the springs of water!"
The Lord commanded us to obey all these statutes and to revere him so that it may always go well for us and he may preserve us, as he has to this day.
Now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you except to revere him, to obey all his commandments, to love him, to serve him with all your mind and being,
Revere the Lord your God, serve him, be loyal to him and take oaths only in his name.
You must follow the Lord your God and revere only him; and you must observe his commandments, obey him, serve him, and remain loyal to him.
Gather the people -- men, women, and children, as well as the resident foreigners in your villages -- so they may hear and thus learn about and fear the Lord your God and carefully obey all the words of this law. Then their children, who have not known this law, will also hear about and learn to fear the Lord your God for as long as you live in the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess."
He has done this so all the nations of the earth might recognize the Lord's power and so you might always obey the Lord your God."
Now obey the Lord and worship him with integrity and loyalty. Put aside the gods your ancestors worshiped beyond the Euphrates and in Egypt and worship the Lord.
If you fear the Lord, serving him and obeying him and not rebelling against what he says, and if both you and the king who rules over you follow the Lord your God, all will be well.
However, fear the Lord and serve him faithfully with all your heart. Just look at the great things he has done for you!
Instead you must worship the Lord, who brought you up from the land of Egypt by his great power and military ability; bow down to him and offer sacrifices to him.
Instead you must worship the Lord your God; then he will rescue you from the power of all your enemies."
Remain loyal to the Lord, you chosen people of his, for his loyal followers lack nothing!
You must recognize the authority of the Lord who commands armies. He is the one you must respect; he is the one you must fear.
Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Instead, fear the one who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
But I will warn you whom you should fear: Fear the one who, after the killing, has authority to throw you into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him!
Who will not fear you, O Lord, and glorify your name, because you alone are holy? All nations will come and worship before you for your righteous acts have been revealed."
May God bless us! Then all the ends of the earth will give him the honor he deserves.
a God who is honored in the great angelic assembly, and more awesome than all who surround him?
If only it would really be their desire to fear me and obey all my commandments in the future, so that it may go well with them and their descendants forever.
So then, my dear friends, just as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence but even more in my absence, continue working out your salvation with awe and reverence,
Then I said, "The thing that you are doing is wrong! Should you not conduct yourselves in the fear of our God in order to avoid the reproach of the Gentiles who are our enemies?
Therefore, since we have these promises, dear friends, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that could defile the body and the spirit, and thus accomplish holiness out of reverence for God.
You stood before the Lord your God at Horeb and he said to me, "Assemble the people before me so that I can tell them my commands. Then they will learn to revere me all the days they live in the land, and they will instruct their children."
It must be with him constantly and he must read it as long as he lives, so that he may learn to revere the Lord his God and observe all the words of this law and these statutes and carry them out.
"You should fear me!" says the Lord. "You should tremble in awe before me! I made the sand to be a boundary for the sea, a permanent barrier that it can never cross. Its waves may roll, but they can never prevail. They may roar, but they can never cross beyond that boundary."
And if you address as Father the one who impartially judges according to each one's work, live out the time of your temporary residence here in reverence.
Therefore we must be wary that, while the promise of entering his rest remains open, none of you may seem to have come short of it.
I have issued an edict that throughout all the dominion of my kingdom people are to revere and fear the God of Daniel. "For he is the living God; he endures forever. His kingdom will not be destroyed; his authority is forever.
Listen! The Lord is calling to the city! It is wise to respect your authority, O Lord! Listen, O nation, and those assembled in the city!
I thought, 'Certainly you will respect me! Now you will accept correction!' If she had done so, her home would not be destroyed by all the punishments I have threatened. But they eagerly sinned in everything they did.
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.