46 Bible Verses about reverence
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Wherefore we receiving a kingdom unmoved; we should have grace by which we might serve God acceptably, with reverence and circumspection:
Ye shall watch my Sabbaths, and ye shall fear my holy place: I Jehovah.
My Sabbaths shall ye watch, and ye shall be afraid of my holies: I Jehovah.
Therefore, my beloved, as ye have always listened, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, with fear and tremor effect your own salvation.
Who in the days of his flesh, both prayers and supplications to him able to save him from death, with strong crying and tears, having offered, and listened to by means of circumspection;
From the face of gray hair thou shalt rise up, and thou shalt honor the face of the old man, and thou shalt be afraid of thy God: I Jehovah.
Since we truly have fathers of our flesh instructors, and we were influenced: shall we not rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and we shall live?
And afterwards he sent to them his son, saying, They will be changed by my son.
For kings, and all them being in eminence; that we may lead a gentle and quiet life, in all devotion and gravity.
And I in the multitude of thy mercy will come into thy house; I will worship to thy holy temple in thy fear.
The beginning of wisdom is the fear of Jehovah, and the knowledge of the holy ones is understanding.
Ye shall fear each his mother and his father, and my Sabbaths ye shall watch: I am Jehovah your God.
But ye also altogether, let each so love his own wife as himself: and the wife that she fear her husband.
Therefore having these declarations, dearly let us cleanse ourselves from all defilements of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
Servants being subjected to masters in all fear; not only to the good and equitable, but also to the crooked.
And if ye call upon the Father, judging without distinction of persons according to the work of each, in fear be occupied in the time of your sojourning:
God being greatly terrible in the council of the holy ones and to be feared by all round about him.
And consecrate the Lord God in your hearts: and being ready always for a justification to every one asking you the word of the hope in you with meekness and fear:
A son will honor the father, and the servant his lord; and if I a father, where mine honor? and if I their lord, where my fear? said Jehovah of armies to you, O priests despising my name. And ye said, In what did we despise thy name?
And the lord of the vineyard said, What shall I do I will send my dearly beloved son: perhaps, having seen him, they will change.
And he will say, No; but I chief of the army of Jehovah come now. And Joshua will fall on his face to the earth and will worship him, and will say to him, What speaks my lord to his servant?
And it was as Peter came in, Cornelius having met him, having fallen at his feet, worshipped.
We will hear the end of all the word: Fear thou God, and watch his commands: for this is all man.
In that day Jehovah made Joshua great in the eyes of all Israel, and they will fear him as they feared Moses all the days of his life.
The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of knowledge: the foolish despised wisdom and instruction.
In the fear of Jehovah the trust of strength, and to his sons a refuge.
And he will say to man, Behold, the fear of Jehovah, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.
We will come in to his dwellings: we will worship at the footstool of his feet
And my heart will be seduced in secret, and my hand shall kiss to my mouth:
And Jehovah will say, Because that this people drew near with their month, and honored me with their lips, and their heart was far from me, and their fear towards me shall be taught from the command of men.
Likewise, wives being subject to their own husbands; that also, if any believe not the word, by the turning back of wives might be gained without the word;
And the broad places of the city shall be filled with boys and girls playing in her broad places.
From Thematic Bible
God, Glory of » Reverence
And from the west they shall fear the name of Jehovah, and from the rising of the sun, his glory. When the adversary shall come in as a river, the spirit of Jehovah was lifted up against him.
God, Goodness of » Reverence
Afterward the sons of Israel shall turn back and they sought Jehovah their God, and David their king; and they trembled at Jehovah and at his goodness in the last of the days.
And it was to me for a name of joy, for a praise and for an honor to all the nations of the earth who shall hear all the good which I did them: and they trembled and were moved for all the good and for all the peace which I did to it
Reverence » For religious leaders for word of God » For God's name
Therefore so do ye pray: Our Father which in the heavens, Let thy name be declared holy.
For thus said the high and lifted up inhabiting eternity, and his name Holy; being lifted up, and I will dwell in the holy place, and with the broken and humble of spirit, to preserve alive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the broken.
Speak to Aaron and to his sons, and they shall separate themselves from the holies of the sons of Israel, and they shall not profane my holy name which they consecrate to me: I Jehovah.
If thou shalt not watch to do all the words of this law being written in this book, to fear this honored and fearful name JEHOVAH THY GOD;
Daniel. answered and said, For this the name of God being praised from forever and even to forever: for wisdom and strength are to him:
Reverence » For men of God
And it was when Moses went forth to the tent, all the people will rise up, and they stood each at the door of his tent, and they looked after Moses till his going into the tent
And they honoured us with many honours; and to us getting under weigh, they set things for need.
Therefore receive him in the Lord with all joy; and hold such esteemed.
And we ask you, brethren, to know those being fatigued among you, and set over you in the Lord, and reminding you; And to think them above ordinary in love for their work. Live in peace in yourselves.
Let the elders having presided well be deemed worthy of double honour, chiefly they being wearied in word and doctrine.
Reverence » For parents » For rulers
And he will say to his men, Far be it to me from Jehovah if I shall do this word to my lord, to the Messiah of Jehovah, to stretch forth my hand against him, for he is the Messiah of Jehovah.
And likewise indeed these dreaming truly defile the flesh, and despise dominion, and defame glories.
Let every soul be placed under the protecting powers. For there is no power except from God: and the powers being, were ordered by God.
Thou shalt not make light of God, and thou shalt not curse the chiefs of thy people.
Reverence » For Christ
For a woman having heard of him, whose daughter had an unclean spirit, having come, fell at his feet:
And, behold, a leper, having come, worshipped him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt thou canst cleanse me.
He speaking these things to them, behold, a ruler, having come, worshipped him, saying; That my daughter has just now died: but having come, put thy hand upon her, and she shall live.
Then came to him the mother of the sons of Zebedee, with her sons, worshipping, and asking something of him.
Reverence » Godly » Awe » For God and sacred things encouraged
And the captain of Jehovah's host will say to Joshua, Put off thy shoe from thy foot, for the place which thou standest upon it, it is holy: and Joshua will do so.
And Jehovah in his holy temple: be silent all the earth before his face.
God being greatly terrible in the council of the holy ones and to be feared by all round about him.
He sent deliverance to his people: he commanded his covenant forever: holy and terrible his name.
Reverence » For servants of God
Believe them guiding you, and yield: (for they watch vigilantly for your souls, as going to return the word.) that with joy they might do this, and not lamenting: for this unprofitable for you.
And they honoured us with many honours; and to us getting under weigh, they set things for need.
Therefore receive him in the Lord with all joy; and hold such esteemed.
And we ask you, brethren, to know those being fatigued among you, and set over you in the Lord, and reminding you; And to think them above ordinary in love for their work. Live in peace in yourselves.
Let the elders having presided well be deemed worthy of double honour, chiefly they being wearied in word and doctrine.
Reverence » For parents » Due to religious leaders
Therefore receive him in the Lord with all joy; and hold such esteemed.
Let the elders having presided well be deemed worthy of double honour, chiefly they being wearied in word and doctrine.
Remember them guiding you, who spake to you the word of God: of whom, observing narrowly the issue of the mode of life, imitate the faith:
And to think them above ordinary in love for their work. Live in peace in yourselves.
Reverence » For the word of God » Its words sacred, not to be altered
And if any take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his part from the book of life, and from the holy city, and from the things written in this book.
Ye shall not add to the word which I am commanding you, and ye shall not take away from it., to watch the commands of Jehovah your God which I am commanding you.
Every word which I command you, ye shall watch to do it: thou shalt not add upon it, and thou shalt not take away from it
Thou shalt not add to his words lest he reprove in thee, and thou wert false.
Reverence » For the aged
And Elihu, the son of Barachel the Buzite will answer and say, I few for days, and ye old men; for this I was afraid, and I shall fear showing you my knowledge.
Hear to thy father that begat thee, and thou shalt not despise thy mother when growing old.
From the face of gray hair thou shalt rise up, and thou shalt honor the face of the old man, and thou shalt be afraid of thy God: I Jehovah.
And Elihu waited for Job in words, for they were old for days above him. And Elihu will see that not an Answer in the mouth of the three men, and his anger will kindle, And Elihu, the son of Barachel the Buzite will answer and say, I few for days, and ye old men; for this I was afraid, and I shall fear showing you my knowledge. read more.
I said, days shall speak, and multitude of years shall make known wisdom.
An elder shouldest thou not reprove, but beseech as a father; the younger as brethren; The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, in all purity.
Reverence » For kings
And he will say to his men, Far be it to me from Jehovah if I shall do this word to my lord, to the Messiah of Jehovah, to stretch forth my hand against him, for he is the Messiah of Jehovah.
And David will say to Abishai, Thou shalt not destroy him: for who stretching forth his hand against Jehovah's Messiah, and being innocent?
And David will say to him, How, wert thou not afraid to stretch forth thine hand to destroy Jehoyah's Messiah?
Thou shalt not curse the king in thy consciousness, and in thy bed-chamber thou shalt not curse the rich for the bird of the heavens will bring the voice, and the possessor of wings shall announce the word.
Reverence » For God
Wo to him striving with him forming him! the potsherd with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him forming it, What wilt thou make? and thy work, No hands to it?
And it shall be in Moses' coming down from the mount Sinai (and the two tables of testimony in. Moses' hand in his coming down from the mount) and Moses knew not that the skin of his face shone in his speaking with him. And Aaron and all the sons of Israel will see Moses, and behold, the skin of his face shone; and they will fear coming near to him. And Moses will call to them; and Aaron and all the chiefs of the assembly will turn back to him: and Moses will speak to them. read more.
And after this all the sons of Israel drew near: and he will command them all what Jehovah spake to him in mount Sinai. And Moses will finish speaking to them and he will give a vail upon his face. And in Moses' going in before Jehovah to speak with him, he will turn away the covering till his coming out And he will come forth and speak to the sons of Israel what will be commanded. And the sons of Israel saw the face of Moses that the skin of Moses' face shone: and Moses turned back the vail upon his face till his going in to speak with him.
And he will say, Thou shalt not draw near hither; draw off thy shoes from thy feet, for the place which thou standest upon it, this is holy land.
And it shall be in the third day, it being in the morning, and there shall be voices, and lightnings, and a heavy cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceedingly strong; and all the people in the camp will tremble. And Moses will bring forth the people to the meeting of God out of the camp; and they will stand in the lower parts of the mount And mount Sinai smoked all of it, because that Jehovah came down upon it in fire: and its smoke will go up as the smoke of the furnace, and all the mountain will tremble exceedingly. read more.
And the voice of the trumpet will be going and strengthening exceedingly, Moses will speak and God will answer him by a voice. And Jehovah will come down upon mount Sinai to the head of the mount: and Jehovah will call for Moses to the head of the mount and Moses will go up. And Jehovah will say to Moses, Go down: protest to the people lest they shall break in to Jehovah to see, and a multitude fall from them. And also the priests drawing near to Jehovah, shall be consecrated, lest Jehovah shall break forth upon them. And Moses will say to Jehovah, The people shall not be able to come up to mount Sinai, for thou didst protest to us, saying, Set bounds to the mountain, and consecrate it And Jehovah will say to him, Go; come down, and come up, thou and Aaron with thee: and the priests and the people shall not break in to come up to Jehovah lest he shall break forth upon them.
Reverence » For the sanctuary
My Sabbaths shall ye watch, and ye shall be afraid of my holies: I Jehovah.
Watch thy feet when thou shalt go to the house of God, and draw near to hear, rather than give the sacrifice of the foolish, for they not knowing the doing of evil.
And he said to those selling doves, Take away these things hence; make not the house of my Father a house of merchandise.
Reverence » For magistrates
And chiefly them going after the flesh in eager desire of defilement, and despising dominion. Self-sufficient, rash men, they tremble not, defaming glories.
And likewise indeed these dreaming truly defile the flesh, and despise dominion, and defame glories.
Thou shalt not make light of God, and thou shalt not curse the chiefs of thy people.
Reverence » For parents
Honor thy father and thy mother, so that thy days shall be prolon upon the land which Jehovah thy gave to thee.
Ye shall fear each his mother and his father, and my Sabbaths ye shall watch: I am Jehovah your God.
Wo to him saying to the father, What wilt thou beget? and to the woman, What wilt thou bring forth?
Reverence » For God's house
My Sabbaths shall ye watch, and ye shall be afraid of my holies: I Jehovah.
Ye shall watch my Sabbaths, and ye shall fear my holy place: I Jehovah.
Topics on Reverence
Attitudes Of Reverence
Psalm 5:7And I in the multitude of thy mercy will come into thy house; I will worship to thy holy temple in thy fear.
Godly Reverence
Exodus 3:5And he will say, Thou shalt not draw near hither; draw off thy shoes from thy feet, for the place which thou standest upon it, this is holy land.
Reverence To God
Hebrews 12:28Wherefore we receiving a kingdom unmoved; we should have grace by which we might serve God acceptably, with reverence and circumspection:
Reverence, And Blessing
Psalm 128:1Song of ascensions Happy every one fearing Jehovah; going in his ways.
Reverence, And God's Nature
1 Samuel 12:24But fear ye Jehovah, and serve him in truth with all your heart: for see what he magnified with you.
Reverence, And Obedience
Jonah 1:16And the men feared Jehovah with great fear, and they will sacrifice a sacrifice to Jehovah, and they will vow vows.
Reverence, And Social Behaviour
Ephesians 5:21Yielding obedience to one another in the fear of God.