44 Bible Verses about Reverence, And Blessing
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A song of ascents. How blessed is every one of the Lord's loyal followers, each one who keeps his commands!
Not to us, O Lord, not to us! But to your name bring honor, for the sake of your loyal love and faithfulness.
I will give them a single-minded purpose to live in a way that always shows respect for me. They will want to do that for their own good and the good of the children who descend from them.
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.
Fearing the Lord is the beginning of moral knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
The beginning of wisdom is to fear the Lord, and acknowledging the Holy One is understanding.
The commands to fear the Lord are right and endure forever. The judgments given by the Lord are trustworthy and absolutely just.
The Lord's spirit will rest on him -- a spirit that gives extraordinary wisdom, a spirit that provides the ability to execute plans, a spirit that produces absolute loyalty to the Lord. He will take delight in obeying the Lord. He will not judge by mere appearances, or make decisions on the basis of hearsay.
The Lord takes delight in his faithful followers, and in those who wait for his loyal love.
The Lord's loyal followers receive his guidance, and he reveals his covenantal demands to them.
Then those who respected the Lord spoke to one another, and the Lord took notice. A scroll was prepared before him in which were recorded the names of those who respected the Lord and honored his name. "They will belong to me," says the Lord who rules over all, "in the day when I prepare my own special property. I will spare them as a man spares his son who serves him. Then once more you will see that I make a distinction between the righteous and the wicked, between the one who serves God and the one who does not.
but in every nation the person who fears him and does what is right is welcomed before him.
Please, O Lord, listen attentively to the prayer of your servant and to the prayer of your servants who take pleasure in showing respect to your name. Grant your servant success today and show compassion to me in the presence of this man." Now I was cupbearer for the king.
Look, the Lord takes notice of his loyal followers, those who wait for him to demonstrate his faithfulness
As a father has compassion on his children, so the Lord has compassion on his faithful followers.
He satisfies the desire of his loyal followers; he hears their cry for help and delivers them.
How great is your favor, which you store up for your loyal followers! In plain sight of everyone you bestow it on those who take shelter in you.
He is your constant source of stability; he abundantly provides safety and great wisdom; he gives all this to those who fear him.
The Lord's angel camps around the Lord's loyal followers and delivers them.
You have given your loyal followers a rallying flag, so that they might seek safety from the bow. (Selah)
You loyal followers of the Lord, trust in the Lord! He is their deliverer and protector.
In the fear of the Lord one has strong confidence, and it will be a refuge for his children.
Remain loyal to the Lord, you chosen people of his, for his loyal followers lack nothing!
They do not say to themselves, "Let us revere the Lord our God. It is he who gives us the autumn rains and the spring rains at the proper time. It is he who assures us of the regular weeks of harvest." Your misdeeds have stopped these things from coming. Your sins have deprived you of my bounty.'
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.
Then Satan answered the Lord, "Is it for nothing that Job fears God?
The Lord shows his faithful followers the way they should live. They experience his favor; their descendants inherit the land.
Certainly his loyal followers will soon experience his deliverance; then his splendor will again appear in our land.
Praise the Lord! How blessed is the one who obeys the Lord, who takes great delight in keeping his commands.
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.
"If you refuse to obey all the words of this law, the things written in this scroll, and refuse to fear this glorious and awesome name, the Lord your God, then the Lord will increase your punishments and those of your descendants -- great and long-lasting afflictions and severe, enduring illnesses. He will infect you with all the diseases of Egypt that you dreaded, and they will persistently afflict you.read more.
Moreover, the Lord will bring upon you every kind of sickness and plague not mentioned in this scroll of commandments, until you have perished. There will be very few of you left, though at one time you were as numerous as the stars in the sky, because you will have disobeyed the Lord your God. This is what will happen: Just as the Lord delighted to do good for you and make you numerous, he will take delight in destroying and decimating you. You will be uprooted from the land you are about to possess. The Lord will scatter you among all nations, from one end of the earth to the other. There you will worship other gods that neither you nor your ancestors have known, gods of wood and stone. Among those nations you will have no rest nor will there be a place of peaceful rest for the soles of your feet, for there the Lord will give you an anxious heart, failing eyesight, and a spirit of despair. Your life will hang in doubt before you; you will be terrified by night and day and will have no certainty of surviving from one day to the next. In the morning you will say, 'If only it were evening!' And in the evening you will say, 'I wish it were morning!' because of the things you will fear and the things you will see.
The fear of the Lord is like a life-giving fountain, to turn people from deadly snares.
Fearing the Lord leads to life, and one who does so will live satisfied; he will not be afflicted by calamity.
Do not let your heart envy sinners, but rather be zealous in fearing the Lord all the time. For surely there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.
All the nations will hear about all the good things which I will do to them. This city will bring me fame, honor, and praise before them for the joy that I bring it. The nations will tremble in awe at all the peace and prosperity that I will provide for it.'
The God of Israel spoke, the protector of Israel spoke to me. The one who rules fairly among men, the one who rules in the fear of God,
He followed God during the lifetime of Zechariah, who taught him how to honor God. As long as he followed the Lord, God caused him to succeed.
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.
